Parking problems - cars blocking our driveway

bobhawke

scrummy-mummy

Our local authority are quite happy to give parking tickets to people who obstruct my driveway. Whether or not i want to park on it. They will only ticket people at the home-owners request.

The police are happy to remove the car if my car is already on the driveway.

Give your local council a ring and ask to speak to parking enforcement. Given that most county councils are now scraping around for funds, they are quite happy to ticket people and put extra money into their highways budget

keystone

scrummy-mummy wrote: »

............they are quite happy to ticket people and put extra money into their highways budget

Oh is that where it goes? :dance:

Cheers

unsure

We had this problem some years ago. It was a real nuisance at first, especially as my wife was a doctor who had to do on-call form home...and we lived opposite a school!

Council said they could paint a white line across drive at our expense. Think it was about £50 at the time. The white line is only advisory but it did the trick for 90% of the drivers. Local beat copper also said if we had a problem with either a persisitent illegal parker or someone who left a car there for a long time, they would tow it away. Eventually the problem wnt away apart from one nutter!

A polite clear sign would be the first move I think, followed by the escalating options above! Something like "Please Do Not Obtsruct Drive " then add later if needed "...Or Police May Be Called."

Froggitt

scottishminnie wrote: »

Couple of suggestions:

A polite note left on their windscreen pointing out the need for the driveway to remain clear

And if you get this printed on VERY sticky paper, placed right over the centre of their windscreen........

27col

If they are ignorant "gits" who park over a dropped kerb, they are unlikely to respond to a polite notice. I do like the sticky label idea though.

keystone

Froggitt wrote: »

And if you get this printed on VERY sticky paper, placed right over the centre of their windscreen........

As long as that doesn't get you landed with a "criminal damage" charge I suppose.

Cheers

muckybutt

keystone wrote: »

As long as that doesn't get you landed with a "criminal damage" charge I suppose.

Cheers

Being as you are not damaging the vehicle then you cant be done for crim damage !

The damage is only done when the driver tries to remove the label, the father in law was told to do exactly that with gummed lables for inconsiderate drivers who blocked his driveway by a local copper.

Froggitt

Its getting into the "I wouldnt have battered his head in had he not been in my house, burgling me, at the time".

birkee

Last time (some years ago) when I got really annoyed, I wiped engine oil on the windscreen of the ignoramus.