Lauren Murray left a short note on the windscreen of a black Renault Clio that was parked in her privately owned parking space outside her home and couldn’t believe the response the received
A woman has expressed her fury as drivers keep parking in her privately owned parking space, but people think she is in the wrong.
When Lauren Murray, who lives in Surrey with her partner and their son, Teddy, bought their house, it came with a numbered parking space in a communal area behind her home.
Over the last few months, the first-time mum noticed people would park in her space, instead of in designated visitor areas or on the roadside. She posted about the dilemma on her TikTok account, @lauren_and_teddy, after a number of incidents with different vehicles.
Following one incident, which involved a black Renault Clio parking in her space, she decided to leave a note on the windscreen.
The note said: “This parking space is privately owned. Please refrain from parking here again.”
The driver responded by leaving the note on the floor and writing “sorry mate” on the back of it.
Following the video people took to the comments to ask Lauren if “her name was on the space” or complain that she was “wanting the best of both worlds” and it “wasn’t a big deal”.
She confronted another driver who was parked in her space months later, who said: “Well I was only parked there for an hour so I don’t see why it was a problem.”
A few months later she returned to TikTok to say that people were still parking in her space and she wasn’t sure what to do.
She said: “I can’t believe I’m saying this but people are still parking in my parking space.
“No, I don’t park in it all the time, sometimes I’m at work and sometimes I like to park out the front of my house.
“I’m not being funny, at the end of the day that parking space is my property, Me and my partner bought our house and in the deeds to the house is the parking spaces.
“People have commented before saying if you don’t want people parking there, put a number on it.
“But as you can see all of these parking spaces are numbered including ours.
“Each property is allocated one or two parking spaces depending on the number of bedrooms they have.
“Our development also has plenty of visitor parking as well as on the road parking.”
She continued: “So tell me when I posted this video a few months ago, people were telling me I was in the wrong.
“People are saying just because I own the house, it doesn’t mean I own the parking space.
“But honestly, hun, I can get you the deeds to my house if you want. It literally tells you that the parking space is included.
“Anyway, how would you like it if someone came and parked on your driveway just because you don’t have a car in there, in that moment?
“Or if somebody came and slept in your spare bedroom just because you weren’t using it?
“I can assure you, you would absolutely hate it, so people need to really stop coming at me for getting annoyed about people parking in my parking space.”
One user said: “How were people saying you in the wrong when you own a parking space. To me its common sense if there’s a number its for a reason.”
A second commenter said: “I have a space marked with my number I guess I’m lucky, only once since 2006 has someone parked in it.
“I blocked them in and they didn’t do it again, there was another time when I came home and someone was in it sitting in the car I told them to move and they did.
“I come and go at all different times I guess that’s why they don’t do it as they never know when I’m coming home.”
Another user shared Lauren’s frustrations. She said: “Same thing happen[s] to me, it’s infuriating. Every other day my own parking space is taken.”
Dozens of people commented telling Lauren to install a metal bollard that would be locked to stop people from parking in her space when she wasn’t using it.
Lauren replied: “We need to get one but I don’t see why we should have to.”
