Car blocking access to my house

SaLoGo

Would the police do anything about this car blocking both mine and my neighbours gates? It's been there all day. While we can just about squeeze through, we're not going to be able to get our bins out tomorrow!

http://s347.photobucket.com/user/sanlougov1/library/Mobile%20Uploads

Just want to get opinions before I give them a call.

Just to add... it is parked on a private drive and each house owns the land up to the centre of the drive so it is actually parked on private property.

ETA: It's not taxed or MOT'd!!

silverwhistle

It looks like you're going to have to drag your bin over the top of that car. What a shame, etc....

The experts (some of them actually are!) will be along soon. Myself, I can never remember if the police will intervene if you're blocked in (hence obstruction) or can't get back in. I think it's the former so worth giving them a ring, perhaps. Suggest it has been stolen and dumped..

Fat_Walt

SaLoGo wrote: »

Would the police do anything about this car blocking both mine and my neighbours gates? It's been there all day. While we can just about squeeze through, we're not going to be able to get our bins out tomorrow!

http://s347.photobucket.com/user/sanlougov1/library/Mobile%20Uploads

Just want to get opinions before I give them a call.

Just to add... it is parked on a private drive and each house owns the land up to the centre of the drive so it is actually parked on private property.

ETA: It's not taxed or MOT'd!!

Not the polices problem then.

You don't need tax or mot on private property.

SaLoGo

So they can just block our gates and we can't do anything?

I have left a note asking them if they could consider parking a little more courteously as I wouldn't want to damage their car as I'm accessing my home and mentioned that the bins are due out.

Pure selfish parking! If they'd have parked 4ft back it would have been perfectly fine!

Fat_Walt

SaLoGo wrote: »

So they can just block our gates and we can't do anything?

I have left a note asking them if they could consider parking a little more courteously as I wouldn't want to damage there car as I'm accessing my home and mentioned that the bins are due out.

Pure selfish parking! If they'd have parked 4ft back it would have been perfectly fine!

Get your trolley jack out and move it.

The police are there to deal with criminal matters and this isn't one.

SaLoGo

Fat_Walt wrote: »

Get your trolley jack out and move it.

Would I actually be within my rights to do that?! It is actually parked on my land. Not that I have a trolley jack to hand... or the strength to move it!!

Fat_Walt wrote: »

The police are there to deal with criminal matters and this isn't one.

Selfish ignorance should be!

phill99

You may wish to call the police to see if it is stolen / abandoned.


As it is on private land, it is a civil matter, not a matter for the police. I'd be getting a mate with a 4x4 To tie a rope to it and drag it out of the way.

phill99

Or put it on your local facebook selling / community group with pictures and do a name and shame.

SaLoGo

It's also uninsured... no wonder they've dumped it on private land :mad:

[Deleted User]

What private drive? It looks like a road with the car in question parked up on the pavement. Pavement parking is one of my pet peeves especially when there is no room for a wheelchair or pushchair to get passed.

If it is a public footpath and it is blocking you from accessing your property through your garden gate e.g. to put bins out, then yeah I will be contacting the council or police to get it shifted. Or shift it myself with help of mate and trolley jack.

Do all those garages I see in your pictures have dropped kerbs? Another thing that annoys me are busy body neighbours that "police" the piece road outside their home made garage/drive and come screaming out at you if you so much stop there for 5 minutes.

SaLoGo

It's not a road as such, it's a private driveway between 2 rows of houses. There's no path, so no dropped kerbs. They are literally 1ft from my gate so while I can just about get in and out, I cannot get my bin out etc.