Vehicle blocking my council garage

fivetide

It would be a shame if you open your garage door and hit his car.

Shazza75

Most times i cannot even get to the door lock as it's centre of the door and i also added a steel bar across the bottom in the middle for added security, they park so close they have bent the door inwards from nudging against it.

CFC

It's a police matter if it is 'obstruction'.

A car was parked (dumped) outside my drive on Xmas eve so we couldn't get our cars out, bit of a panic as husband was due to go to work, rang the local bobbies and a PCSO came, looked at the car and towed it for obstruction.

londonTiger

what a lousy council, they cant even paint a double yellow line on front of their own garages.

facade

Similar thing was happening to some friends of mine.

Asked the neighbour not to park where they couldn't get on their drive without going on the lawn, got a mouthful of abuse. Couple of weeks later he was still doing it, when his car got vandalised in the night.

Police were called, but my friends hadn't seen or heard anything.

Funny thing was, someone had clipped his mirror and broken it off when parked there a few nights before, quite a risky place to leave a car really, I believe he parks it outside his own house where he can keep an eye on it now :cool:

Frogletina

Where I used to live I had a car parking space at the end of my garden that I rented out to my next door neighbour for a short time. It was a walled garden but had double gates to get into that space.

One day, someone parked a car in front of the gates and when my neighbour came home he obviously couldn't get through the gates to park the car in my garden so he parked his car behind the other one.

First I knew was when the owner of the car knocked on our door as they wanted to go out. Sorry, I said - not my car. Belongs to the guy next door. Well, they knocked there and got no reply. I heard they ended up getting a taxi as they were going out and not locally either but to another town. Funnily enough, they didn't do that again.

bugslet

CFC wrote: »

It's a police matter if it is 'obstruction'.

A car was parked (dumped) outside my drive on Xmas eve so we couldn't get our cars out, bit of a panic as husband was due to go to work, rang the local bobbies and a PCSO came, looked at the car and towed it for obstruction.

I think it depends on if it's on the road or on a private parking area.

At work we have a lot of trouble with vehicles parking in front the gates despite signs when there is a match on at the football ground down the road. I called into the police station and they couldn't do anything because the are in front of the gates is an access point to the yard rather than opening directly onto the road. It becomes a civil matter. To make it worse, where they park they can clearly see that there are cars in the yard that can't get out.

A couple of times I took the fitters big wheel jack and just wheeled the damn things out of the way - never heard anything about it.

Hoof_Hearted

As you have a motorbike, do you have room to install a bollard somewhere in front of the garage door or are you to close to the road?

flyingscotno1

londonTiger wrote: »

what a lousy council, they cant even paint a double yellow line on front of their own garages.

It takes around 6 months and a couple thousand pounds to do a yellow line.

vikingaero

The guy is an a-hole if he is doing regularly. Have a word with your local PCSO and get him to have a word with him.