Can people park over your driveway?

fed_up_and_stressed

Prothet_of_Doom wrote: »

I've never been to this place you call London. Sounds like a fascist dictatorship, and I'll try and avoid it. :rotfl:

Hmmmmm hadn't really noticed the similarity between Bozza Johnson and Joffrey Baratheon before your post !

Road_Hog

Unless legislation has changed recently, it isn't illegal/criminal matter to park across one's driveway, only if they are blocking a vehicle in. If the driveway is empty, it is a civil matter and the police will not intervene.

jjlandlord

Yep, £30 fixed penalty notice if parked in a way blocking your driveway.

Now, if they do park on your driveway, ie. on your land, you could go the way private car park do:
You put a visible notice that this is private land and parking is not allowed, and that if any car does park there they will be charge £100 per 24 hours.
If a car parks there you take pictures, and put a notice on their windscreen (you can buy the same yellow sticker ones as used by parking wardens).

At the end of the day, the bolt and braces approach is to have a gate or bollard...

Road_Hog

And just to add a little anecdote, my parents live in Twickenham in quite a large house, not far from the rugby ground.


They have a 'U' shaped drive (as well as a garage) that can probably fit four cars. Back in the old days (bought around 1975) it wasn't a problem.


But these days, my mum and father have to take their cars out the garage/off the drive and park across their drive to stop people parking them in on match days. They even had some park on the drive and my father came out and said !!!!!! do you think you're doing. To which the response was, oh, we're going to the match, we'll only be 2 or 3 hours, you've got plenty of room on your drive, what's the problem.


To which my father said, if you leave it there, it won't be there when you get back, needless to say, they moved it.

jjlandlord

Road_Hog wrote: »

To which my father said, if you leave it there, it won't be there when you get back, needless to say, they moved it.

They missed a nice business opportunity, IMHO

V_Chic_Chick

My grandmother had a drive that was forever being parked across (next to both a primary school and a shop, in an area with little parking). She used to take great pleasure in ringing up the council and having them towed, because then she felt like she'd got her own back and she got the pleasure of watching them take it away from her window. As far as she was concerned, it was even better when they came back midway through the towing procedure, starting remonstrating, and still had it towed She used to ring us up to tell us about it with a certain level of glee in her voice.

Alas, the fun stopped when the council painted a disabled bay across her driveway...

[Deleted User]

The kid next door kept parking over our driveway. Woke him up really really early in the morning (8 AM... he's rarely up before the crack of lunch) a few times and he stopped.

A few other people tried to park there over the years but the kid's mother is a terrible driver. Her car is battered and smashed up, and any car that parks over our driveway is bound to be hit as she tries to squeeze in.

JustAnotherSaver

Well we had our first taste of moronism tonight.

Went to the house to do a bit of work & obviously parked in the drive.

The wife turned up after work & we then decided to get a takeaway & head back home (home as in where we're currently living while we get our house ready).

Nope ... get back to our house to find some idiot has parked over our drive, blocking my car in. I knock on the neighbours door a few times but no answer. I knock across the road to find a confused woman in her dressing gown. Just as she enlightens me that she believes it's our neighbours mother, our neighbour comes from the rear of their house with who i presume must've been their dad. Not a word or anything.

I understand we weren't in when they arrived, but 1) i doubt they bothered to knock & ask if it was ok they parked there & 2) don't just fricken assume it's ok!!!! Common sense & basic manners, whatever happened to it?

Lord_Baltimore

I think you need to remain calm, rational, reasonable, understanding, constructive and neighbourly.

Then hosepipe them .

JustAnotherSaver

Well they got let off lightly tonight. Unlike the moron who parked so close to me at the weekend i had to get in my car from the other side. Not big, clever or legal, but i wasn't going to just let them get away with it as there really was no need.

Maybe i just attract morons.