would you say anything?

snowyz81

It does surprise me how people are quick to have a go at me, I know there are people that dont have cars, i know there are pregnant people that walk, however that wasnt the question !

In my case which the question is about, i have a car, i'm pregnant and have a little girl. I know i dont have a right to the road. I'm not asking for people to have a go at me, about how ungrateful i am and how stupid i am for wanting to park on the street i live.

sassyblue

snowyz81 wrote: »

It does surprise me how people are quick to have a go at me, I know there are people that dont have cars, i know there are pregnant people that walk, however that wasnt the question !

In my case which the question is about, i have a car, i'm pregnant and have a little girl. I know i dont have a right to the road. I'm not asking for people to have a go at me, about how ungrateful i am and how stupid i am for wanting to park on the street i live.

Anything that isn't constructive advice - good or bad - should be ignored.

Besides, it's really your fault for not putting those lengthy disclaimers in your original post :rotfl:

coolcait

I thought that parking in front of a driveway was also covered by the "parking on a public highway, get over it" clause.

I wouldn't recommend it, as it would escalate the situation, and is a far clearer breach of 'parking etiquette' than parking outside someone else's house.

There may be a 'middle' option. If your main problem is having to lug the shopping a fair distance, then perhaps you could park the car in front of their driveway for just as long as it takes to unload the shopping, then move it again.

Put a note on the windscreen saying 'unloading shopping - back in a minute' - and make sure you do come back!

If the neighbours happen to want in or out while you're unloading, then you can move the car while they do so.

If that resolves the problem you have with the shopping, do you need to 'say something' to them about the car?

Of course, if they gripe or grumble, you can agree with them that it's all very inconvenient, and apologise for stopping there. Taking the opportunity to say - "unfortunately, I don't know who that car belongs to, or I would have explained to them about the difficulties I have carrying my shopping such long distances- maybe they'd have moved their car".

All that said, if I was having such tremendous difficulties carrying shopping, and worrying about having a miscarriage while carrying shopping, I would be buying it all from the internet and having it delivered. Given that you seem to be buying bags of shopping at a time, you could probably get free delivery for that amount. Saving yourself, time, petrol money, and shedloads of stress.

mummybearx

Op, I feel your pain! I live across from a primary school, our row of houses are accessed by a single driveway off the main road. At school time, not only is there cars parked all the way along the two sides of the road making it really tight to access our driveway, more often than not there is a car parked right across our driveway opening :mad:

The school were sympathetic, but said there is little they can do to stop the cars. Waiting to hear back from the council as to what they can do about it.

x

marisco_2

snowyz81 wrote: »

It does surprise me how people are quick to have a go at me, I know there are people that dont have cars, i know there are pregnant people that walk, however that wasnt the question !

In my case which the question is about, i have a car, i'm pregnant and have a little girl. I know i dont have a right to the road. I'm not asking for people to have a go at me, about how ungrateful i am and how stupid i am for wanting to park on the street i live.

Ignore the poster who chooses to keep taking side swipes at you instead of showing some empathy and offering constructive advice. They are just a sad attention seeker who has ended up getting a few of their posts removed by the forum team. Fortunately this type of poster is in the minority on MSE and I hope that on the whole you have found the advice given on this thread helpful.

Spendless

I can't believe some of the replies the OP has got. I am quite sure if I started a thread saying, how I tell my mates to come and park down my street with limited parking whilst they went on hol, leaving no parking in the street for other people who lived there, I wouldn't get very favourable replies about my behaviour!

I know there has been suggestions of whether you are able to create a drive of your own, but here on some streets (mainly the ones close to the town centre) there are residents only parking, or other cars can only park for a limited time usually 1-2 hrs. I have no idea how a road can become residents only parking, but maybe a letter to your local council dept, saying the problems you are having and asking what the procedure is for making the road, residents only. They might write back and say your road isn't suitable and then you're no better/worse off than before. OTOH they might say the 1st step is they have to send a letter to all the householders asking if they also have an issue - which might just give your neighbour food for thought.

Molly41

LadyMorticia wrote: »

We have a similar problem with the house opposite our's. They have two cars (well a car and a works van) and two parking spaces on their drive that are their's to use, but the van still parks on the road outside their house which makes it hard (and sometimes impossible) for DH to reverse out). Our road has two entrances but one has been permanently closed. When the other part of the road was open it was easier for us to get out but now we have to go the other way, sometimes it is extremely difficult.

We haven't said anything though because there must be a reason for him to park there. Why else would you park on the road when you have a double driveway?

Probably doesnt park on his driveway because there are very often covenants in the deed which prevent business vehicles from parking there:(

geoffky

Life is too short too worry about things like this....I live next to a tesco with a layby outside my front gates and the most i have had to wait for someone to move is five minutes....not worth stressing about really..;)

Janepig

zepsgal wrote: »

Op, I feel your pain! I live across from a primary school, our row of houses are accessed by a single driveway off the main road. At school time, not only is there cars parked all the way along the two sides of the road making it really tight to access our driveway, more often than not there is a car parked right across our driveway opening :mad:

The school were sympathetic, but said there is little they can do to stop the cars. Waiting to hear back from the council as to what they can do about it.

x

Don't hold your breath - DD/DS's school has this problem. They have a large car park, but it's nowhere near big enough for what's needed (460+ kids in DD/DS's school and half that again in the English medium school on the same site). It's got a huge catchment area so there are very few children who are in a position to walk and parents can and do, park anywhere and everywhere. Also, start/finish times are staggered so the two schools don't start and finish at the same time so it's a longer pick up/drop off time than normal.

I'm lucky enough to be able to get there early enough to get a space in the car park. This has been an ongoing issue between the school, LA and the Police for more years than I care to remember and it gets worse year on year, rather than better. There are zig zag lines outside the school, parents still park there. One parent parks every day on the zig zag lines, despite getting there early enough to have a space in the car park, and would wave her blue badge at anyone foolish enough to say anything to her. But, she then walks, from her zig zag parking space, into the car park, to fetch an ice cream from the van, and back to her car, clearly too thick to realise if she parked by the ice cream van IN THE CAR PARK she wouldn't have so far to walk. So that's the mentality of people you are dealing with really.

Jx

jellyhead

GlasweJen wrote: »

Why would you do something as silly and spiteful as block their driveway? Your car will be towed and impounded and you'll have to shell out a fortune to get it back.

I didn't mean do it in a spiteful way! Unless I got the wrong end of the stick aren't these friends and relatives parking in the neighbour's drive and the neighbour is parking their own car in front of OP's house? In which case it wouldn't matter if you blocked them in because they don't need to move their car until they return from their holiday.

If that's not what's happening, and the neighbour is allowing people to park outside your house while they are on holiday, then perhaps you could suggest to them that they could let the person park on their driveway and block the car in themselves, as that wouldn't cause any problems to anyone.