New neighbours don't get the etiquette

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Sea_Shell wrote: »

OP already appears to live a bohemian lifestyle...I don't think anyone would condone or encourage behaving like "travellers" and parking up on private land...just because you can!!

Lol, they live in a crescent and have ‘unwritten rules’ about the parking, that’s a very odd version of ‘bohemian’! :rotfl::rotfl:

Scrapit

EdGasketTheSecond wrote: »

I was just correcting the previous three posts that suggested parking on the driveway would be illegal (it is not), that she should expect damage (that would be illegal), that it would be clamped (that would be illegal), and that she could not park on the driveway as it was not her property (plainly wrong). Lets get the facts straight first.

It not correcting if it is the case. And it's plainly obvious that it's illegal. It's also highly likely to occur(the damage, if not the clamping).

EdGasketTheSecond

Scrapit wrote: »

And it's plainly obvious that it's illegal.

Nope:


https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/cars/parking-drive-law-police-trespassing-260605

JohnDorian

Members can keep on arguing about the technicalities but that is a bit pointless because if the OP wants to park on a neighbour’s drive then there are an infinite number of ways that the neighbour can use to make the OP’s life hell.

A rather pointless discussion on what is legal and what is not as that does not add to the conversation.

EdGasketTheSecond

Maybe your opinion JohnDorian but in my opinion it is highly important and relevant whether a course of action is technically legal or illegal; it actually makes a huge difference should the OP go down the route of parking on the neighbour's driveway.


I would imagine it is also of immense interest to everyone reading who has their own driveway!

AdrianC

EdGasketTheSecond wrote: »

Maybe your opinion JohnDorian but in my opinion it is highly important and relevant whether a course of action is technically legal or illegal; it actually makes a huge difference should the OP go down the route of parking on the neighbour's driveway.

In my opinion, the legality is actually the least important thing.

It'd be the action of a selfish, petulant git.

Scrapit

EdGasketTheSecond wrote: »

Nope:


https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/cars/parking-drive-law-police-trespassing-260605

Yes: https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/criminal-damage

Robby1988

Is there no way you can manufacture your own off road parking? Pave over your front garden and have a dropped kerb put in or something? I know people don't like doing this, but sometimes you've got to take responsibility for where you keep your own private property.

Sounds like your parking arrangement on the road has been a fortunate one for a good while, your new neighbours are being petty but nothing you can do without sinking to their level.

DoaM

Scrapit wrote: »

Yes: https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/criminal-damage

Parking on someone else's drive is trespass ... this is not a criminal offence, rather it is a civil tort. You'll not find the word "trespass" on the website you linked.

If someone damages your vehicle whilst it is trespassing - that is a criminal offence.

Scrapit

DoaM wrote: »

Parking on someone else's drive is trespass ... this is not a criminal offence, rather it is a civil tort. You'll not find the word "trespass" on the website you linked.

If someone damages your vehicle whilst it is trespassing - that is a criminal offence.

Why would trespass be mentioned in the CPS definition of criminal damage? And you can break the law by criminal damaging property with or without tresspassing.