Parking Issues Obstructing Driveway.

Mrs_Arcanum

The neighbour has become habituated to parking where they do, so only if they are breaking a law or can be forced not to park there (by prevention) for a while will anything change.

You could contact your local highways department to see if some sort of restriction could be put in place.

Strider590

Mrs_Arcanum wrote: »

You could contact your local highways department to see if some sort of restriction could be put in place.

Double yellow lines on a small stretch of road like that, would probably cost the tax payer £50'000

Can of cheap yellow masonry paint and brush = £10

System

Strider590 wrote: »

Double yellow lines on a small stretch of road like that, would probably cost the tax payer £50'000

Can of cheap yellow masonry paint and brush = £10

Cleaning bill from council = £2000

cyclonebri1

bigjl. wrote: »

Who are you the derbyshire moral plod? Guess you need to vent on a forum when the specials turned you down.

The neighbour obviously thinks she is parking in a safe position.

That's a strange answer to a straight forward question, but recently you've become anything other than straight forward.

The whole point of most of the answers to this thread was to try and find a reasonable solution to the OP's problem, not how to be as cantankerous as possible but stay legal, (which seems to be your interpretation).

Feel free to answer the question I asked you.

dibuzz

Deleted_User wrote: »

I've seen this before where someone who doesn't have a car allows a neighbour to park outside their drive/access/space/whatever. Then when they move and someone else moves in who does have a car and wants to use their drive/access/space/whatever, they can't. Because the neighbour still thinks they have the right to park there because the previous occupant allowed them.

That happened to us, the man next door had been parking on our drive when the house was empty but had been out when we viewed the house so we didn't know until the day we moved in when he came out and said "do you want me to move my car while you get everything in?"
After a few trips we took the van back, picked up the car and got home to find his car back on our drive!
He actually made us feel guilty for asking him to move it.

We have a lot of problems with cars blocking the drive, mainly family of the said next door neighbour but also because we live behind a church. Quite often there's a huge 4x4 parked opposite or right up to the gatepost which makes it very difficult to get in and out but since we put the L plates on for my daughter for some reason she parks further down

Strider590

!!!!!! wrote: »

Cleaning bill from council = £2000

I was actually just having a shallow dig at the curruption within local councils which see's contracts for such work being handed out to those who pay the biggest backhanders to the local MP/etc.

Yorkie1

mildred1978 wrote: »

The neighbour is parking within 32 feet of a junction so not legal, no.

Just looked this up. It isn't actually an offence to park within 10m of a junction. The Highway Code says Do Not do this, as opposed to You Must Not (which is an offence). Breach of the HC is not an offence.

However, it is an offence to leave a vehicle in a dangerous position:

"If a person in charge of a vehicle causes or permits the vehicle or a trailer drawn by it to remain at rest on a road in such a position or in such condition or in such circumstances as to involve a danger of injury to other persons using the road, he is guilty of an offence." s.22 RTA 1988.

If it can be argued to be in a position whereby the OP is inevitably exposed to risk of danger e.g. by manoeuvring on a busy road, then there may be a basis of a complaint here.

Or, the offence of breach of C&U regs:

Reg 103. "No person in charge of a motor vehicle or trailer shall cause or permit the vehicle to stand on a road so as to cause any unnecessary obstruction of the road."

Breach of this regulation is s.42 RTA 1988.

OP, I'm not suggesting you start having difficult conversations and shouting the law at this difficult neighbour, but these two pieces of legislation might give you some information if you want to talk to the police about the parking, or the council about putting lines on the road for example.

Only you know how best you want to take this forward, but petty parking in revenge as suggested by others on the thread can only end in a negative outcome by escalating matters and reducing yourself to her level.

By the way, I understand the difficulty caused to you. I cannot turn right out of my drive if cars park opposite; luckily, I can turn left to the turning circle at the end of the road and come back down - but otherwise I'd be stuffed. Lots of people avoiding the residents' parking in the next set of streets: I'd dearly love to let their tyres down but won't stoop to that level of illegality and dangerousness!

derrick

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Just looked this up. It isn't actually an offence to park within 10m of a junction. The Highway Code says Do Not do this, as opposed to You Must Not (which is an offence). Breach of the HC is not an offence.

That depends on the circumstances, it is an offence under rule 248 ,([Laws CUR reg 101 & RVLR reg 24]), if parked at night facing oncoming traffic.
"You MUST NOT park on a road at night facing against the direction of the traffic flow unless in a recognised parking space."

Rule 250,(same link as above), backs up the 10 metre rule for parking at night;-
250

Cars, goods vehicles not exceeding 1525 kg unladen weight, invalid carriages, motorcycles and pedal cycles may be parked without lights on a road (or lay-by) with a speed limit of 30 mph (48 km/h) or less if they are

• at least 10 metres (32 feet) away from any junction, close to the kerb and facing in the direction of the traffic flow
• in a recognised parking place or lay-by

Other vehicles and trailers, and all vehicles with projecting loads, MUST NOT be left on a road at night without lights.

[Laws RVLR reg 24 & CUR reg 82(7)]


And whilst it is not an offence to breach the HC, remember what it say in the introduction, (my red highlighting);- "Although failure to comply with the other rules of the Code will not, in itself, cause a person to be prosecuted, The Highway Code may be used in evidence in any court proceedings under the Traffic Acts (see 'The road user and the law') to establish liability. This includes rules which use advisory wording such as ‘should/should not’ or ‘do/do not’."


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pinkteapot

Is the neighbour parking in front of her own drive? If so, is she parking on the road in front of a dropped kerb?

Can you report her for parking over a dropped kerb, even if it's her house?

cyclonebri1

pinkteapot wrote: »

Is the neighbour parking in front of her own drive? If so, is she parking on the road in front of a dropped kerb?

Can you report her for parking over a dropped kerb, even if it's her house?

Read back, it's the side of the road opposite the OP's drive not the OP's side, not illegal but obviously very annoying and inconvenient and above all now it's been pointed out that there's an issue only an innoramous would park their car there knowing the risk of it getting scrawped.

Defensive parking is obviously not on the neighbours agenda:(