Parking over my driveway

Riversong

Sgt_Pepper wrote: »

What rules are they?

Rules enforced by the local council and police. I don't care enough to ask for specifics tbh.

Flyboy152

muckybutt wrote: »

Can posters stop stating highway code rules :wall:

The HIGHWAY CODE IS NOT A LEGAL ACT ! the highway code is merely a set of advisory rules.

If it were the Road Traffic Act that would be a different matter.

Personally if you dont have a car then I cant see why the big fuss ? you can still access your property by foot cant you ? you can still take wheeled bins up and down your drive cant you ? visitors can still access your property by foot cant they ?

If you answered yes to any of the above then get over it and move on

Except the bits that are a legal act, of course.

Flyboy152

Coupon-mad wrote: »

But that's what private 'parking' companies do - impersonate authority. It scares/misleads people into thinking they've got a fine and is not something I would suggest anyone does.

When I see a car parked in round here with a driver who is seen jaunting off to work around the corner (where there's a car park!) I put a note on it saying 'thankyou for not parking here again. This road is needed for residents' cars and your car is not welcome. If this car is seen here again you may find it gets reported to the Council as abandoned' ...or similar. That's not impersonating authority but it's just threatening enough!

It annoys people to see they've been noticed. I have watched the driver return on occasion and chuck the note away - but then never seen the same cars return. It works to make them aware they've been noticed.

Sorry, but what right has anyone got too tell someone where they can or can't park on the public road, as long as they are not parking illegally, or on private property, they can park where they want.

Flyboy152

Obukit wrote: »

Yes, but they work. And what hot water would I be in? Free market, I ask the council's contractors to paint something for me, they do it for a much cheaper price than the council. If the contractors didn't pass my £20 back to the council then I'm very shocked .

Free market...rubbish. You cannot just paint lines on the road when you feel like it.

Flyboy152

mummyroysof3 wrote: »

i would but i never seem to see them getting in or out and dont want to have to go speak to them by knocking on neighbours door as its not her fault and probly doesnt even know they doing it

So, instead of not bothering to look for them (or maybe even putting a note on the car), you want them to potentially get the sack from their crappy minimum wage job?

Coupon-mad

Flyboy152 wrote: »

Sorry, but what right has anyone got too tell someone where they can or can't park on the public road, as long as they are not parking illegally, or on private property, they can park where they want.

I know they are allowed to park there but it's causing a huge problem for those who live here. My road is in a group of streets at the edge of a Council Parking Zone - we are not part of the scheme and thankfully, residents voted not to be when given the 'fantastic chance' by the Council.

But it's idiots like those selfish parkers who arrive here at 8.15am to dump their cars and leave after work at 5.15pm who might annoy residents into eventually voting for us to join the Council regime. And it's a scheme that won't work in our narrow roads (the Council could only put bays on one side, double yellows on the other, reducing the spaces by about half, heaven forbid!). The parking on the road as it stands did work perfectly well, and will continue to be OK as long as we aren't swamped by the 'selfish brigade' who want to use the road as a car park.

A 'selfish brigade' who mainly work in 3 or 4 local large retail outlets just around the corner, all of which have large or medium-sized free car parks. Guess why they have stopped parking in the car parks like they used to? Because of PPCs, they are scared of getting a fake PCN so they swamp our roads instead. And when you visit those retail outlets, the car parks are only a third full...

So me and a few other residents try to discourage the workers from using our roads as a car park, and it works.

Flyboy152

Coupon-mad wrote: »

I know they are allowed to park there but it's causing a huge problem for those who live here. My road is in a group of streets at the edge of a Council Parking Zone - we are not part of the scheme and thankfully, residents voted not to be when given the 'fantastic chance' by the Council.

But it's idiots like those selfish parkers who arrive here at 8.15am to dump their cars and leave after work at 5.15pm who might annoy residents into eventually voting for us to join the Council regime. And it's a scheme that won't work in our narrow roads (the Council could only put bays on one side, double yellows on the other, reducing the spaces by about half, heaven forbid!). The parking on the road as it stands did work perfectly well, and will continue to be OK as long as we aren't swamped by the 'selfish brigade' who want to use the road as a car park.

A 'selfish brigade' who mainly work in 3 or 4 local large retail outlets just around the corner, all of which have large or medium-sized free car parks. Guess why they have stopped parking in the car parks like they used to? Because of PPCs, they are scared of getting a fake PCN so they swamp our roads instead. And when you visit those retail outlets, the car parks are only a third full...

So me and a few other residents try to discourage the workers from using our roads as a car park, and it works.

All of that is too bad. If you don't like it, live somewhere else, perhaps somewhere with double yellow lines outside your house. No one has the right to tell anyone that they can't park where it is legal to park on the public road.

If I had one of those "messages" on my car, I'd tell you where to shove it.

Coupon-mad

I don't disagree with your view actually - and if I got such a message on my car I would laugh at it! :rotfl:

But the occasional message on a windscreen works because most people don't want to park anywhere they think may be hassle - that's why they are trying our road, to avoid hassle.

Tough, if I see them they'll get hassle on my occasional day off because I want to be able to park again within a few hundred yards of my house at least, after doing the school run for 20 minutes. I want my elderly neighbours to be able to have a nurse visit or food delivered, and I want those with babies to be able to have the Health Visitor being able to park in the daytime like I did when my kids were tiny. Not too much to ask?

As I said the problem is caused by PPCs in the free car parks frightening the employees into thinking they can't park there like they used to.

The whole situation with PPCs is frankly ridiculous! To think they are making a fortune each day from farming car reg numbers like a bunch of train spotters, driving customers and employees away from car parks they don't even own/maintain. And all based on a lie, a misleading impersonation of authority. :mad:

esmerobbo

Flyboy152 wrote: »

No one has the right to tell anyone that they can't park where it is legal to park on the public road.

Except the Boys in Blue of course!

give_them_FA

A little note like this could deter:

"There is no legal reason why you cannot park in this road. However, please be aware that residents will accept no responsibility for any loss or damage that may occur to your vehicle or property".