Parking outside your house....

Quentin

The problem over moving the cones and exercising your right to park on the road is the flat tyre(s) you seem to risk finding on your return!

lleck

i had this problem for years, i live on the last street before the town centre and office workers would be queuing to take my space as i left for work/shopping/school run. We eventually got a residents parking scheme at a cost of £27.50 per annum per car, the best thing that has ever happened to us.

we tried the polite notices but unfortunatley it caused a lot of hassle for us because it is a public road and as such we had no priority for the parking spaces.

Tell your mum she could be fined for leaving the boxes out or the police could pay her a visit.

LittleMissAspie

Years ago I used to drive to work to a busy town. I was always looking for free places to park and I found a road only 5 minutes walk away that had no signs up to say no parking or residents only. I looked carefully and there were definitely no signs anywhere.

I parked my car there one day and came back from work to find a notice on the windscreen. I can't remember the wording now, but it was something to the effect of that road having some sort of agreement that commuters could not park there and if my car was found there again action would be taken. I never parked there again but now I'm wondering - is that some kind of scheme or was a resident making it up? I do remember noticing that the road was pretty empty and wondering why more people didn't park there. All the other free roads in that area were packed full of commuters.

dizzybuff

Quentin wrote: »

The problem over moving the cones and exercising your right to park on the road is the flat tyre(s) you seem to risk finding on your return![/QUOTE

Criminal damage . Hmmmmmmm great way to solve a problem that a petition to the council could solve.

mad_bad_spender

There are residents where i park when going to work who have taken to putting anything on the road to try to obstruct parking. Every house in this area has a drive yet they object to people parking there regardless and put bins/cones and even boxes on the road to obstruct parking.

One household has both their green and brown wheelie bins on the road and when people moved the bins and parked there anyway they put a note on them stating that these were their wheelie bins and we did not have permission to move their property, also that there was a CCTV camera recording our every move.

Scary or what lol :rotfl:

i would maybe tell her to have a word with the shopping centre, they may at least ask the staff to park elsewhere and this MAY stop or reduce the parking there for a wee while if your mum is lucky

a public road is just that, public.

peter_the_piper

Get a few neighbours to leave a car there with a very visible ""clamp"" on (home made of course) they will soon get the message.

juliescot

peter_the_piper wrote: »

Get a few neighbours to leave a car there with a very visible ""clamp"" on (home made of course) they will soon get the message.

What would the message be in this case? Illegal clampers operating?

trisontana

I live in such a road, very close to the town centre and a railway station. We get commuters and shoppers parking here all the time, even though there is a very large council carpark (with modest parking fees) just at the top of the road, and which is nearer the town and the station than our road. We just have to put up with it. Luckily I have a driveway which will take two cars, other residents are not so lucky.

One of the stupidest thinks I saw was an old man struggling to get his rather large wife into a wheel-chair before pushing her up the road towards town. I assume they would have had a blue-badge, so they could have parked in the council carpark for free.

We also get motorists parking in the street to eat their lunch. That's OK except that some of them then discard all their unwanted food and wrappers out of the window, leaving us to pick it up.

The council are looking into providing a residents' parking scheme, but we have been told that we are just one street on a long list in the county and we should not hold our breath.

peter_the_piper

juliescot wrote: »

What would the message be in this case? Illegal clampers operating?

Why not? Would you park where its possible to get clamped? Not many would.

Chippy_Minton_2

DCFC79 wrote: »

Isnt the home owner entitled to park outside they're own property

They have no rights to.