Can a nursery do anything about people parking on the pavement outside the nursery

unholyangel

MsHoarder wrote: »

How about moving the cars with yours?:rotfl:

It drives me round the bend too, I'm often tempted to block in parents who think the residents' parking is fair game.

Not really the same situation i know but........

When i used to work at a club it was the wee hours of the morning when we got out. Because of this, the staff car park was right next to the doors as it was dark and obviously so we werent parking in the overspill car park and having to walk to our cars alone (where we could be attacked easily). Often we had customers parking there even though it was clearly marked.

As many of our customers were regulars, we used to park at the end of their car so they couldnt get out (this is actually what the owner told us to do) and when they came to the bar to complain, they'd be told they'd have to wait until we finished closing up, that the car park was there for our safety and that they shouldnt have disregarded the fact it was for staff.

Funnily enough didnt have any repeat offenders!

unholyangel

pimento wrote: »

We have a novel way of dealing with this kind of malarky in Essex..

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/8854055.Dad_scared_of_school_run_after_thug_attacked_car/

Makes you wonder about the ability of their local police or the credibility of the story. Either the guy is a resident of the house and somehow the police dont know how to find him even though they have his address (given that they ask for anyone with information should call the police after a general description of the bloke) or the paper have embelished the story to say he's a resident.

Problem is a lot of older streets/roads arent equipped to deal with todays volume of traffic.

vikingaero

DD's school decided to name and shame those who parked illegally by publishing their number plates in the weekly newsletter. And the result? It published all the number plates of all the taxi drivers who never read the newsletter! Then they brought in the Plastic Plod who claimed he couldn't do anything other than give friendly advice! :mad:

If you think normal school parents are worse you should deal with the spectre of Private School parents. :eek: My sister lives opposite a private school where the parents have the stereotypical large cars, large attitudes and non-existent legs. They all simply have to park as close to the school drive as possible sweetie. So they park on the zig-zags, pavements, in flowerbeds, blocking drives and even in residents drives. :eek::eek: One parent told my BIL to Foxtrot Oscar when he got home early to find a 4x4 in the drive blocking access to the house. So what he does now it that he blocks them in and goes for a few cans of lager and refuses to reverse onto the public road for fear of drink driving. Of course Madam Self-Important Parent has by this stage called the Police who offer to reverse the car out for him. Since being blocked in a couple of times she's never parked in their drive again.

patman99

pimento wrote: »

We have a novel way of dealing with this kind of malarky in Essex..

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/8854055.Dad_scared_of_school_run_after_thug_attacked_car/

If some ar5e-wipe did that to my car, I would call the Police and have them charged with criminal damage.

People tend to forget that if a vehicle is taxed, tested and insured then it can park on any part of the highway, so long as there are no restrictions in force.
This of course also applies to the residents who, if they so wished, could leave their vehicles on the road, thus stopping the srm's from parking there.
Could also ask for a residents parking scheme to go-in.

Btw, parking on a footpath is not an offence. The offence is actually 'the driving of a motor vehicle on a footpath'. This was talked-about on radio a couple of years back, and a Chief Inspector phoned-in to clarify the law.

Lil_Me_2

Lori007 wrote: »

The school advised they are always asking parents to park sensibly but nobody takes any notice and advised phoning the police and asking them to patrol for a while (I would have thought the police have better things to do).

I go regularly to my local "Partnerships and Communities Together" meetings organised by the council and attended by the council, councillors and police. Our local police offers are more than happy to deal with issues like this and they actively encourage people to ring them and report it! They say there are too many people who don't want to bother the police with small matters, but in reality these are the easiest to deal with!

Totally off topic but we used to have a problem with 17-19 year olds from the local college coming and using a bin store next to our house as a place to hide away, smoke cannabis and they left graffiti everywhere. We raised it at the PACT meeting, the police then made it part of their round to come and shoo them away every lunch time. They've arrested a few of them for drug possession, gone into the college to do some drug education, the council cleared the graffiti and the problem has now gone!

Moral of the story - don't put up with it until it's too late and something has gone wrong. The last thing you want is for someone to get hurt because they have to walk in the road, or someone looses their temper with an offender.

SHIPSHAPE

Rachel_murray wrote: »

What bugs me is that I failed my driving test

Stephen Hawking's second wife for me!

Fancy leaving him out in the blistering sun? Not to mention slapping him about the head too.

The cruel cow.

xangeleyes

SHIPSHAPE wrote: »

Stephen Hawking's second wife for me!

Fancy leaving him out in the blistering sun? Not to mention slapping him about the head too.

The cruel cow.

Erm..... I'm sorry but why have I been quoted and recieved your response? lol. Am I missing something here?

And yes, I agree what she did was nasty!!!! :mad:

nellytheelephant

Oooh, this reminds me of when a mother dropping their kid off to the primary school at the end of my road parked on my drive!! I'd left for work but forgotten something - got back and there was this car parked up there :mad: I parked behind it, so they couldn't get out, she came back and gave me a gobful! I was sooo irritated, I called a taxi and left the car there, ha!

I don't know how she tried to get out during the day, I was at work... She came back later in the evening, I got back at about 7pm, and asked me to move the car so she could get out - I said I would but... I'd had a drink so couldn't possibly! She called the police, they actually turned up (!!!!!) but told her she shouldn't have parked there and that she had to wait!

Never had that problem again

MrsE_2

dmg24 wrote: »

It is not their property. They cannot dictate where people park. They could suggest that people are more consideration, but even if they do people do not have to comply.

And they (or the poster) could report it to their local police.

Flyboy152

peachyprice wrote: »

All the nursery can really do is send letters home to all parents reminding them that if they're caught parking on a double yellow they may get a ticket and they are endangering other childrens lives by parking on the pavement.

If the nursery perceive it at a problem they could contact the PCSO team and ask if they could come by at drop off/pick up times to 'educate' the crap parkers.

I would imagine the nursery would be reluctant to do this, as they rely on the fees from the selfish parents, who don't give a hoot about anyone else's children, but their own precious little darlings.