How to stop people parking on my drive?

Mallotum_X

If it looks like the parking spaces next to it then its not really the fault of anyone for assuming thats what they are.

When you are in why not park your car across the middle of the 2 spaces to prevent anyone pulling up next to you? Do you have a fence or anything to the side, any way to make it look more enclosed like a garden rather than open tarmac? Perhaps double gates, that you can leave one permanently closed although large double sized gates wont be cheap.

Ultimately it sounds like it is going to cost to prevent unauthorised parking. So it depends on how much it really bothers you and what the lack of other people parking there is worth to you.

AlexMac

We have a lesser problem in that ours looks like a private forcourt, so people don't generally park, but the volume of local building work means that heavy lorries, if they can, constantly use it as the first obvious turning point in our narrow lane. Which sounds OK, but as the lane is partly unmade up and stnony, this results in circular scoring of the brick surface as idle turners wrench their big gravelly tyres round on the power steering.

Other neighbours without forecourts do have problems of strangers parking, all the more irritating as although it's a right of way, we all own the bits of lane outside our homes to the centre-line (so no yellow lines or formal Council parking controls).

Signs are ineffective and (since clamping was outlawed) unenforcable, other than by Civil Action. I doubt if gravel or painted lines would work either, so I'd say barriers are the only way; unless you do what I've started to do, which is park across the two spaces, which only works when you're in!

Guest101

Clamping is outlawed, but as there is a multi million pound industry based on private parking tickets in the UK, i'd just join in and start ticketing

... after putting up a sign and registering with the BPA, so you can claim keeper details at £0.33p a pop

Mojisola

stator wrote: »

The cheapest effective solution would be to pay someone to paint PRIVATE in white paint across the entrance to the drive.

Loopy28 wrote: »

To answer the questions, firstly some people are not aware that it is a drive and are surprised when I tell them. Others know and don't care e.g. my neighbour had a gas engineer at her house who she owned up had parked on my drive (I was at work) and when she told him it wasn't public parking, she said he just responded that he wouldn't be very long and seemed to not care.

If you want people to stop parking in what looks like public parking space, painting 'private' on it seems the cheapest and easiest answer.

Was the gas engineer parking there a problem for you? If not, it wouldn't have worried me. If he'd still been there when I needed the parking space, I'd have asked him to move.

gadgetmind

Note that all you need is barriers to be able to clamp, and the barrier doesn't need to be down. So, get a cheap barrier, keep it in the up position all the time, and get a clamping company to stick up signs.

We have private parking signs, numbered parking spzces and clamping signs (but no barriers yet) and people just laugh (or swear) in your face as they block a space that costs £1500+ pa as they know that you're powerless unless you fit ugly and intrusive physical barriers.

Yes, signs will discourage some people, but far too many want to park where they choose, when they choose, and no matter who it inconveniences, for them to provide a complete solution.

theartfullodger

Do a search on "You park like a ..." - they do some great stickers & booklets of "tickets"....

Purely for amusement between friends, obviously....

C_Mababejive

It seems to me that the issue is that it isnt clear that it is a clearly defined driveway belonging to a particular property. Does it form part of your deeds as shown at landreg?

If so then mark it as such with a house number or some kind of chain/post or device.

To be fair, a car could sustain damage by any means be it a van,another car,a cycle,something falling from a tree etc.

In some circumstances, vans just need to top where they stop due to limitations in places to stop. If they dont stop then people dont get parcels delivered or work done. It surely is ony a major issue if someone is parked there when you return and wish to park.

dirty_magic

I'd get one of those lift up metal bollard things that bolt to the floor.

gadgetmind

C_Mababejive wrote: »

In some circumstances, vans just need to top where they stop due to limitations in places to stop. If they dont stop then people dont get parcels delivered or work done.

Liveried delivery vehicles can ignore most parking regulations as part of the universal service stuff, but they can't park on private land without permission.

Workmen need to park legally, safely and considerately, and not on private land without permission.

Simples.

System

gadgetmind wrote: »

Note that all you need is barriers to be able to clamp,

I suggest you check up on that assumption before somebody instigates a prosecution against you.

Clamping is now an offence on private land if no lawful authority. Lawful authority is limited to a few organisations such as police, DVLA and a few others