My car has been blocked in

Neil49

I'm assuming that you have an officially installed dropped kerb giving you access to your driveway and don't simply drive up over the kerbstones as that makes all the difference.

If you have a properly installed dropped kerb then the responses above are valid. If not then you have limited rights with regard to removing the car blocking your way.

DoaM

In terms of the OP ... they have few rights, if any, other than finding some means to nudge the other car forward/backward (as applicable), as the OP is parked on the road.

The OP's neighbour may or may not have a valid case depending on the dropped kerb as you rightly point out.

Unless I'm mis-reading and the OP means that the offending vehicle is blocking egress from both drives.

Nearly_Old

m0bov wrote: »

The police should be moving it, they do a PNC and if its local will knock. Or gets towed.

Called 101 and tell them you need to access highway.

Also call council parking so it gets a ticket in the meantime.

Virtually all major local authorities have applied for areas of Special Enforcement. Under that legislation the local Council has the power to ticket the vehicle and the power to move the vehicle. If the area is not a Special Enforcement area then it is very inconvinient but no offence has been committed. The purpose of the dropped kerb is only to allow a vehicle to legally drive across a footpath/verge.

SHAFT

Nearly_Old wrote: »

Virtually all major local authorities have applied for areas of Special Enforcement. Under that legislation the local Council has the power to ticket the vehicle and the power to move the vehicle. If the area is not a Special Enforcement area then it is very inconvinient but no offence has been committed. The purpose of the dropped kerb is only to allow a vehicle to legally drive across a footpath/verge.

The problem with the council doing enforcement is who do you contact on a bank holiday weekend.

Nearly_Old

SHAFT wrote: »

The problem with the council doing enforcement is who do you contact on a bank holiday weekend.

Most if not all Councils have an emergency contact number and if the removal of an illegally parked vehicle has been outsourced then most private companies like working at Bank Holiday rates.

SHAFT

Nearly_Old wrote: »

Most if not all Councils have an emergency contact number and if the removal of an illegally parked vehicle has been outsourced then most private companies like working at Bank Holiday rates.

Parking enforcement isn't an emergency.

Belenus

SHAFT wrote: »

The problem with the council doing enforcement is who do you contact on a bank holiday weekend.

Richard Roundtree perhaps.

mattyprice4004

SHAFT wrote: »

Parking enforcement isn't an emergency.

It can be if you need to urgently go out, though!

photome

Would be good to know what happened yesterday morning

ToxicWomble

Maybe It coincidentally wasn’t there after the In-laws went home