Who to complain to?? Please help

carrie483

Not sure if here is the best place to post this (can someone move it to a better place if need be please.)

Quick query on behalf of my nan. Her neighbour keeps parking in front of her driveway. She has asked him on many occasions to move it and stop parking there but he just laughs at her. :mad: he is not a very nice person.

She doesn't own a car but regulary has visitors who do drive.

Who would she complain to? I know the local council but what department?

Thank you for any advice.

Carrie.

hjb123

To be honest I am not sure whether there is anything that can be done in this situation. It would probably just get classed as a domestic or civil dispute.

I can understand the frustration your nan must feel though as it is her driveway even though she doesnt have a car!

Does the neighbour have a driveway? If so does he not use it?

Maybe it is worth getting advice from the Citizens Advice Bureau though I am not sure whether anything can be done.

Personally if I was your Nan, and her neighbour has a driveway I would get people to come and visit and park across their driveway. Maybe she could put her wheelie bins out and block his way?

smcaul

There is a forum on the web specifically for this type of thing - http://www.nfh.org.uk/ try looking there for advice. From what I can remember from reading somewhere else - it is not illegal to block a drive (assumng no parking restrictions, i.e. yellow lines) if there is no car in it. But you can not block a driveway that has a car parked in it. Basically it looks like your nan may have problems (I'm sorry to say).

carrie483

Yeah i think shes doomed to have problems.....

The neighbour doesn't have a drive but uses the space of road outside his house for his van (which has 4 flat tyres).

I was thinking about parking my car on her front (having to mount up the kerb) make it look like my car was parked there and that he had blocked me in and then call the police??

Thank you for that website - i'm gonna have a look now.

Cheers, Carrie x

carrie483

OOH, just had a thought, there is a car parked on my nans drive, my brothers car which he isn't using until he gets his licence so then technically he is breaking the law.

hjb123

Get someone who has got a licesnse to go to your Nans one day to take the car out for a spin that is sat on your Nans driveway out for a spin - and make sure its when the neighbour is parked there and ask him to move, do this a few times and get him annoyed! If he wont move call the police or something cos in the end you would be wanting to get the car out and he would be blocking your way!

RightRevBod

About 11 or so years ago, we came back from a weekend away to find a car parked across our drive. We phoned the police to ask advice and after a while a police car pulled up.

They asked if we asked the neighbours, which we had. One of them then went to knock on a few doors and found that it belonged to new neighbours which had just moved in next door.

We were renting the house at the time, the owners living next door. Unbeknown to us, they had moved and rented out that house as well. They told the new tenants that our property was empty, and it would be fine to use our drive (why?).

The new neighbours apologised, and moved their car.

The police told us that if they could not find the owners, they would get the car towed, as (if I remember this correctly) it was denying us right of access to our property.

It might be worth giving the police a call. They may go and have a quiet word with your nan's neighbour. Depending on his attitude, they may decide to give his car a thorough inspection.

They may not be willing to help, but if costs no more than a phone call to ask.

carrie483

Thank you for all your help. I'll give the police a call and explain it to them and see what they can do.

Thanks again. Carrie x

BFG_2

But what about the neighbour who insists on parking in front of your driveway?!

Technically the Highway Code is being broken.

The Highway Code

“DO NOT PARK in front of an entrance to a property” - Highway Code point 217

intel

http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/22.htm

smcaul

Don't mean to be padantic, but, the highway code is just that, it is a code, much of it's contents are law, but not all of them.