Inconsiderate parking

lady1964

Morning,

I'm looking for some advice please. We have a double width drive with a dropped kerb on the left side of the drive and my car is parked on the right hand side of the drive as you look out onto the street. Yesterday morning, someone parked their car about one inch away from the dropped kerb but pretty much blocking me in. To be honest, I could manoeuvre my car back & forth to get off the drive and avoid this car, I haven't had to use my car so haven't tried. If I drove my car straight off the drive, I'd hit the entire back half of this parked car.

I was out until 9.30 last night and this car was still there so I put a polite note on the windscreen asking them to move & to be more considerate about parking. The car and my note are still there now.

As it's not parked across the dropped kerb, I'm at a loss as to what to do. It's been suggested I block the car in or set off the alarm on their car but I'm a bit loathe to do it. I haven't knocked on any neighbours doors, mainly because I don't see why I should, I'm not planning on using my car today but I will be tomorrow..

Any advice please? Thanks

Half_way

Do you know who's car this is? has it been parked there for a while?
are you near an airport/railway station? ( ie the driver has lawfully parked on street near a bus route/railway station as an alternative to exorbitant airport parking prices)
you said that you managed to get out ( with a bit of faff) can you provide a picture, or a link to google streetview?

doe this happen alot?

beamerguy

This is not really the subject we deal with here, this forum is about private parking such as supermarket car parks.

However, if this was me, I would report this to the council as an abandoned vehicle

lady1964

Half_way wrote: »

Do you know who's car this is? has it been parked there for a while?
are you near an airport/railway station? ( ie the driver has lawfully parked on street near a bus route/railway station as an alternative to exorbitant airport parking prices)
you said that you managed to get out ( with a bit of faff) can you provide a picture, or a link to google streetview?

doe this happen alot?

I don't know whose car it is, I didn't see them park, had I have done, I would have asked them politely to park so that I could easily get off my drive.
The car has been parked for a little over 24 hours now. We aren't near a railway station or airport. It's just a small residential street. I haven't tried to get my car out and I do have photos.
I think this car has been parked in the same place a couple of weeks ago, it was parked awkwardly then but not as much as this time.

Sorry if I posted this in the wrong place, I looked at the various forums & as this one included the word 'parking' I thought this was the most appropriate forum,

yotmon

Is there anything parked behind the vehicle that has made the driver park so far forward ?
A long tern solution would be to have the council to drop the kerb into a 'double'. When you drive out onto the road, do you normally manage to exit via the dropped kerb, or do you drive over the actual kerb, if so, then technically you commit an offence.
I 'suffered' the same problem years ago, as I had a primary school at the rear of my house and this would happen twice a day. But as long as they didn't block the driveway - ie the dropped kerb, then there wasn't anything I could do about it ( other than by having a double drop).

Johno100

beamerguy wrote: »

However, if this was me, I would report this to the council as an abandoned vehicle

Parked legally but inconsiderately for a little over 24 hours and you want to get the council involved:mad:

lady1964

The car has been moved, it belongs to a neighbour a few doors away. The mum came to move it so I went out & she said it was her son's car, when I pointed out how close to our dropped kerb it was parked and how it would be awkward to move my car, she nodded in agreement so I asked her to tell her son not to park like that again.

The thing that annoyed me was that the street was practically empty of cars when he parked, he could've parked anywhere where he wouldn't have caused a problem, it's just thoughtless. If he does it again, I at least know where he lives & wouldn't hesitate to knock on their door.

lady1964

yotmon wrote: »

Is there anything parked behind the vehicle that has made the driver park so far forward ?
A long tern solution would be to have the council to drop the kerb into a 'double'. When you drive out onto the road, do you normally manage to exit via the dropped kerb, or do you drive over the actual kerb, if so, then technically you commit an offence.
I 'suffered' the same problem years ago, as I had a primary school at the rear of my house and this would happen twice a day. But as long as they didn't block the driveway - ie the dropped kerb, then there wasn't anything I could do about it ( other than by having a double drop).

No, behind the car was my dropped kerb and yes, I usually drive slowly off half on the dropped kerb, half on the kerb. It's worth making an enquiry about dropping the kerb all the way across the drive, thanks for the suggestion.

PasturesNew

In short - he's done nothing wrong and has 100% "rights" to park there. I suspect he parked there thinking "Ideal, dropped kerb, I won't get trapped between two other parked cars". If he had full access to the whole road when parking it might've been nice if he'd gone back another foot or so ...

But the bottom line is: he has done nothing wrong, illegal.
And: you have no rights to suggest he parks anywhere else, or to knock on his door if he does.

You need to get your dropped kerb extended if you want to start having any leverage in future situations.

Poor bloke - from his viewpoint he's parked completely legally, went to see his dear old mum ... and some nutter's being bl00dy awkward down the road.

splishsplash

PasturesNew wrote: »

In short - he's done nothing wrong and has 100% "rights" to park there. I suspect he parked there thinking "Ideal, dropped kerb, I won't get trapped between two other parked cars". If he had full access to the whole road when parking it might've been nice if he'd gone back another foot or so ...

But the bottom line is: he has done nothing wrong, illegal.
And: you have no rights to suggest he parks anywhere else, or to knock on his door if he does.

You need to get your dropped kerb extended if you want to start having any leverage in future situations.

Poor bloke - from his viewpoint he's parked completely legally, went to see his dear old mum ... and some nutter's being bl00dy awkward down the road.

Totally agree.

OP, you have no right to ask your neighbour to 'tell' her son not to park there. I think you've got some cheek. Get your kerb dropped and that will solve your problem.

lady1964

PasturesNew wrote: »

In short - he's done nothing wrong and has 100% "rights" to park there. I suspect he parked there thinking "Ideal, dropped kerb, I won't get trapped between two other parked cars". If he had full access to the whole road when parking it might've been nice if he'd gone back another foot or so ...

But the bottom line is: he has done nothing wrong, illegal.
And: you have no rights to suggest he parks anywhere else, or to knock on his door if he does.

You need to get your dropped kerb extended if you want to start having any leverage in future situations.

Poor bloke - from his viewpoint he's parked completely legally, went to see his dear old mum ... and some nutter's being bl00dy awkward down the road.

Actually, he lives at home so wasn't just visiting and yes, maybe I do need to get the dropped kerb extended, I'm going to look into the cost.

I didn't say he'd illegally parked, just that he was parked inconsiderately, if he'd gone back another foot or so, he would have been across the dropped kerb. The whole road was almost car free, he could have parked anywhere else, somewhere that didn't partially block a drive which had a car on it. I have no problem with someone parking outside my house, I know that legally, anyone can park there and all I asked his mum is to ask him not to park in such a way that he blocks my car in. That's not cheeky, it's a reasonable request. I wouldn't dream of parking in such a way because I'm a considerate person.