ticket for blocking my own driveway?!

melancholly

well there was no car in my driveway at the time - just 3 wheely bins blocking it that i couldn't face moving when i got in late and feeling rubbish (lesson learned on that front!).

Mark_Hewitt

What does it matter if there is a car in the driveway? Many of my friends live in houses where the best way to park is to block each other in. Which often requires car shuffling to get out again, but that's no business of traffic wardens.

I was under the impression that they could only respond to specific complaints.

Nilrem

I think they can deal with it at any time, however they normally only respond to specific complaints due to the relatively few people they've got to enforce them.

IIRC my local council for example tends not do much about parking problems on many of our streets, but occasionally they'll have a blitz either due to the general number of complaints getting higher, or because one of the emergency services puts in a complaint about dodgy parking causing problems (in which case the wardens/enforcement offices/cspo's will ticket any car parked in a manner that is dodgy, not just the ones causing the problem).

I've had to call the police a couple of times due to people parking in front of our shared drive, and none of us knowing who owned the car (via the non emergency number and the police can contact the registered keeper) - only had to do it about twice in 15 years, both times when the car was parked up late at night and we needed to get out very early in the morning.

I'm probably one of the few motorists who actually likes traffic wardens, at least when they are around to do their jobs.

fossman

I think you are unlucky to get a ticket but it has been reported that the police are cracking down on people parking infront of driveways.

A few years ago when I lived with my parents we had new neighbours move in and they kept parking infront of our drive, my brother would come home at 2am and not be able to get on the drive.

It kept happening so in the end we rang the police, they came out and basically said he could park there as long as he moved it when we asked.