Parking on pavements

calleyw

Minerva69 wrote: »

Calley - you mentioned your husband has a wheelchair. I seem to remember (although I may be wrong) reading on another forum that you can get the council to stop people blocking your drive if you need it for disabled access, perhaps you could contact somebody at the council to find out.

My husband is only a wheelchair user on his bad days rather than all the time.

I have the feeling the law is that you have a legal right to enter your property but not to exit. Or maybe the other way around.

I am lucky they are not parking over my drive yet. But time will tell.

I just can't believe that people are just so lazy.

And what started it I have no idea. I think because no-one has challenged them yet they seem to think it is ok.

Well lets get a fire engine up the road and fingers crossed they will just ram there car out the way. Oh what a shame.

And don't get me started about what I saw earlier. Just so he did not have to move his wifes car one of my neighbours drove over the bit of green by the side of his house to get to another cul-de-sac so he could go out :eek:

Yours


Calley

EdCov

I would not get involved with notes on windscreens, anyone who parks fully on the pavement knows that they are being rude and will continue to do so as long as they can get away with it. Contact the council or call the police and get them to sort it out, it is what we pay our taxes for, and people accept the police sorting out the problem when they may not accept others telling them what to do.

If the police or council will not help contact your local councillor. I think the danger with notes is that it starts to get personal. As the case is people need to use the pavements, they are for people to use, not cars to park on, and it is the law.

My view is always be friendly and polite and get on well with your neighbours, but with issues like this leave it to the police. I have heard too many stories of the people who have tried to politely ask people and have ended up having real problems.

tomstickland

Do you think the neighbours will take kindly to the police turning up? When there's a problem then the first action is to communicate the problem to the people causing it.

olly300

tomstickland wrote: »

Do you think the neighbours will take kindly to the police turning up? When there's a problem then the first action is to communicate the problem to the people causing it.

No.

The neighbours, and not all of them can be out all the time , will see the OP husband in a wheelchair sometimes. Therefore they if they had any compassion would know that parking where they do would make it difficult for their neighbour.

I often come back from work, I work long hours, and find someone's visitor parked in my space. Normally one of my others neighbours' space is free yet because she is elderly and have seen her dragging heavy bags, I do not park in her space I park else where.

anewman

Fix a wheel clamping warning sign stating £50 release fee. Buy yourself a cheapie wheel clamp and clamp the losers. Muhahahahaha. That's got to be the best suggestion yet and will stop them parking there instantly, and the first £50 you get back will pay for the clamp and the sign.

http://www.parrs.co.uk/product-PARRS-Wheel-Clamp-Signs-E186.htm ??

pinkfluffybabe

calleyw wrote: »

I have the feeling the law is that you have a legal right to enter your property but not to exit. Or maybe the other way around.


Calley

I think you can legally complain about being blocked in but not about being blocked out. So if you had some sort of emergency you need to be able to get out but if you can't get in its more of an inconvenience (in the eyes of the law).

Some people are completely thoughless idiots about parking. Sometimes people park on either side of my drive and I can't see if anything is coming down the hill towards me (which people do pretty fast). Not to mention they are parking opposise a junction which you are not supposed to do. I would contact the council in the first instance Calley.

Sagaris

I'd take photos of the way the cars are parked, then email them to the local coucil's parking/highways department. The parking attendants/traffic wardens may well come and earn themselves a few extra pennies, particularly if you tell them about how it restricts pedestrian access. If they are blocking your exit off your property, then the police have powers to have them removed.
I'd also copy all the correspondence to your local councillor as well, and if it's a safety issue, the road safety department at the council too.
Also, you could contact the local paper? Ours is always printing local interest stories like this, and is very useful in getting issues resolved.

calleyw

"I don't believe it" (best victor meldrew impression you will get)I lost my rag this morning not only where they parked there but they where actually parked two kerbstones on to my drop kerb.

I left note asking them not to park on my drop kerb and to use the space a few feet down my road.

I was able to get out but it was not that easy and it made me later for work than I wanted to.

Do it again tomorrow and I will be knocking on there door tomorrow morning at 6.45am asking them to move the bloody thing

I am just so :mad: who the hell do they think they are. They would never dream of parking on the white lines oppsite on someone elses drive. So why do think it is ok to park across mine. Next they will parking on my drive.

I have only lived here about two years and most of my neighbours have managed to pee me off big time with being selfish. No thought to others. Let alone visitors who think it is ok to park behind the cars of people they are visiting making it impossible for others to get out of drives.

I just so wish I could move but I can't due to husband not working and me not being able to get a mortgage on my own.

Better get back to work seeing as I have a pile a mile high.


Yours


Calley

calleyw

anewman wrote: »

Fix a wheel clamping warning sign stating £50 release fee. Buy yourself a cheapie wheel clamp and clamp the losers. Muhahahahaha. That's got to be the best suggestion yet and will stop them parking there instantly, and the first £50 you get back will pay for the clamp and the sign.

http://www.parrs.co.uk/product-PARRS-Wheel-Clamp-Signs-E186.htm ??

Not legal me thinks but very funny.

I did leave note this as I was jsut so pee offed this morning.

If they had brain cells there would be very dangerous.

I will get my husband on to the council this morning as it has to stop.


Yours


Calley

Poppy9

When I take DD to her music lesson her teacher lives in a cul-de-sac. The cul-de-sac is quite rough with there being obvious tension between those who have bought their houses and those who are still LA. A few houses have cameras trained on the road outside their house just to monitor their parking space. It obviously bothers some of them that the music teacher has lessons in the evening and due to location most sit in the car or music teacher's house while the lesson takes place. You park legally as it's a public highway but they try and jam you in by moving their car within inches of you. One neighbour came out and started ranting at me I couldn't park outside her house as her OH was coming home soon and he wanted to park there. I told her it was a public highway and when she paid my road tax then she could tell me where to park. I also told her if she wasn't happy with my parking to feel free to call the police and if she didn't desist from ranting I would call them and I was sure she would be popular with her neighbours as the police would be busy there as lots of cars causing an obstruction by parking in the cul de sac turning area.

I think we need a big publicity campaign to remind people that they don't own the road outside their house and if there are no restrictions in force anyone can park there:rolleyes: