Parking on kerb outside my house?

VanMan2007

abankerbutnotafatcat wrote: »

Yes, when I indicated the issue to them they parked up, got out and walked up the drive of the nearby house. It's not been a problem since.

We sometimes get blocked in/out of our drive which is ridiculously annoying when you've specifically paid for one of the minority of houses with a drive in our area (Victorian housing). We put notes under windscreens but the council have told us they will enforce including contacting the police and towing if necessary.

UPDATE: after reporting that the vehicle was obstructing the footpath, a danger to OAP's, mothers with pushchairs, etc, I have had no parking outside my house for around two months.

The council weren't any help; but I went into the local police station with photographic evidence and something got sorted out by someone. It's probably a nice little job the police can designate to the PCSA's to take care of, so I would recommend this route if you're having problems.

Good luck, guys.

theGrinch

Im sure if you park more than 50cm away from the kerb into the road you can be done too. Might be an urban legend though or not

givememoney

We got peed off as neighbour would park his car outside our house for literally weeks on end.

Down our road lots of people have paved their front garden over for parking so this has left very few parking spaces. We put our car in the garage so haven't done this.

We know anyone who pays their road tax is entiled to park there but others would come and go so if we had visitors they could often park there. This chap though hardly ever used his car and would leave it without a word of a lie for 5 weeks without moving it.

In the end we asked him why he didnt put it in his garage - filled with junk apparently. Why not park it on your front like everyone does - might get a ball through the window. I couldn't believe he had lived down our turning for over 30 years and had not made provision for car parking.

We weren't the only people to complain another neighbour threatened to damage his car if he didn't move it. Not that I approve of that.

Anyway all good now he has finally parked it in his own front garden

dil1976

Get a grip folk, it is a vehicle parked on a kerb. Unless it is not road legal or causing a obstruction there not alot going to be done about it. There are a hell of a lot of vehicles up and down the country that park like this, should they all be told to park on the road outside their own house.

I live on a road where I am able to park outside my own house, but on the occasions I can not, I simply find the easiest option is to park somewhere else and not worry too much about it.

mumps

CKhalvashi wrote: »

Please feel free to try it, I'll even give you the address, cars and registration numbers. Just dont get too annoyed when you're landed with a criminal record, civil action for repairs to the vehicles and further costs for my time and expenses.

The last person to damage my car was a student, and when served with a Stat Demand (after he thought we wouldn't follow through, and had ignorea CCJ), his parents ended up paying something like £4000, for damage that cost sub-£1000 to repair, plus hire car, solicitors bills, court fees etc. That was a very expensive couple of drinks.

Sorry if this seems a little off, but I get annoyed with people that think they're above the law.

CK

But the people who park on pavements also think they are above the law. When my kids were younger two were in a twin buggy, not actually twins but close in age. A man down the road used to park half on the pavement which meant I had to go right out into the narrow road and was on the wrong side of the road. I got sick of it and started knocking on his door every time and asking him to move, smiling and being very polite. He got really fed up but eventually got the message. A blind man did live nextdoor to me so it was a problem for him as well.

YoungBusinessman

Surprised the police did anything. We stay in a cul de sac with every place has a driveway and a garage. A lot off neighbours park one vehicle in drive and one on street so place looks very cluttered with parking for 5 or 6 vehicles in each drive they only actually occupy one at a time. Just got to let it go, there's bigger issues to worry about. I however wasn't too pleased when someone parked across my drive to drop kids off at childminders and made it known that I wasn't very happy they haven't done it since.