Parking in front of driveways

hjb123

good for you, did she come and knock on your door then? what did she say:D

kymrob

i have the same trouble !! i live near a school and people are always parking in frount of my driveway sometimes so close i can't even walk out of my driveway! they give you a horriable look!! have complained about it as the side entrance where i am is only for bikes and kids who walk but never is used for this!! ahhhhhh!!

ilovegreatdanes

think id invest in a big sign for the outside of the property that its private land and private parking and access is needed at all times.police will be informed and cars will be towed away at your discretion.
check with the police and council to make sure, apologies if you have already cos i havent read al the thread.
also any chance of a chain or could you get your hands on a couple of traffic cones???

Nicki

MrsE wrote: »

I agreed with you up to here.

But to suggest finding somewhere else to park your car, so as to entrap & tempt illegal parkers is just getting silly.

lol - that's a misunderstanding! I meant somewhere else to park the car when I come home and can't get into my own drive! Not somewhere else to park it permanently to leave my drive open for others! If it was that easy to find parking spots near where I live, I wouldn't have been so exercised about the whole thing!

MrsE_2

Nicki wrote: »

lol - that's a misunderstanding! I meant somewhere else to park the car when I come home and can't get into my own drive! Not somewhere else to park it permanently to leave my drive open for others! If it was that easy to find parking spots near where I live, I wouldn't have been so exercised about the whole thing!

Oh sorry.

Then do what you like to the bu66ers, they shouldn't park on your drive:D
Just plain ignorant:rolleyes:

hollydays

Nicki wrote: »

This link is quite interesting http://www.nationalparkingcontrol.co.uk/ethics.asp

You do need a licence to clamp someone who parks on your land without permission, but not to "fine" them for doing so (which is effectively what I did, I suppose). The fine must be reasonable, but here they are suggesting that £90 would be enforceable so £10 is positively cheap by comparison! I might actually think about registering with this company as they can track people down via their number plates (which obviously I can't do as a private citizen) so I wouldn't have to block them in with the car and go to the effort of moving it again to let them out, could just slap a ticket on their windscreen. Still means I'd have to find somewhere else to park my car though which would be a pain.

PLease remember it was you who said " I might actually think of registering with this company"......:rolleyes: not me..So your comment about not running a business..well..

I too think you could put yourself at risk by what you did.,which concerns me,rather than a continued argument about points not proven but Those last points #121 are not very Lawyer-ish.

golddustmedia

It sounds to me like it's perhaps not all that obvious that Nicki's parking space is private land?

I've certainly been around well built up areas where a small bit of hardstanding looks like a vacant and viable parking space but is perhaps private land, but if it looks like the rest of the urban landscape I can see it being an easy mistake to make.

If it were my land I'd pop a small sign simply stating "Private land, unauthorised vehicles will be fined and/or towed away".

Yes it's a pain to you but you'd only need to fine one of them to pay for the sign ;-)

Nicki

golddustmedia wrote: »

It sounds to me like it's perhaps not all that obvious that Nicki's parking space is private land?

I've certainly been around well built up areas where a small bit of hardstanding looks like a vacant and viable parking space but is perhaps private land, but if it looks like the rest of the urban landscape I can see it being an easy mistake to make.

If it were my land I'd pop a small sign simply stating "Private land, unauthorised vehicles will be fined and/or towed away".

Yes it's a pain to you but you'd only need to fine one of them to pay for the sign ;-)

It's a paved patio, fenced on both sides and with tended flowerbeds right outside the front door of a residential house. It looks nothing like the rest of the urban landscape, and the woman who parked there today didn't even try to argue that it did but acknowledged it was clearly our front garden.

I might end up having to put a sign up, though to be honest I'm not keen as it is a beautiful period property in a conservation area, grade 2 listed, and a sign like this is going to look really naff (even if I can get it past the planners who are so keen to preserve the character of the area that they try to stop people erecting satellite dishes!

Nicki

hollydays wrote: »

PLease remember it was you who said " I might actually think of registering with this company"......:rolleyes: not me..So your comment about not running a business..well..

I too think you could put yourself at risk by what you did.,which concerns me,rather than a continued argument about points not proven but Those last points #121 are not very Lawyer-ish.

Paying a fee so that a company can track down miscreants instead of me is not the same at all as running a private car park. You are so determined to win an argument when you clearly don't have the law on your side, that you are being ridiculous! Or if I instruct a solicitor to recover a debt for me, does that in your eyes mean I'm running a money-lending business!

The points at post 121 are just designed to show how ridiculous you are being. However you have your viewpoint on what happened this morning and I have mine. Had you been able to point to any legal reason why what happened was wrong, I would have listened to you, but as you haven't I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.

d123

Nicki wrote: »

I might end up having to put a sign up, though to be honest I'm not keen as it is a beautiful period property in a conservation area, grade 2 listed, and a sign like this is going to look really naff (even if I can get it past the planners who are so keen to preserve the character of the area that they try to stop people erecting satellite dishes!

As I said in my original post, I also consider you to have been correct and within the law, but to discourage unwanted parkers and to cover yourself contractually (if you decide to charge the next unwanted parker a parking charge) you do need a sign advising that they are agreeing to your contractual terms if they do trespass on your parking space.

It can be an A4 size piece of wood with gold lettering (staying in keeping with the character of your house), stating "Private Land - No Entry or Parking -Unauthorised parking charged at £xx - Your vehicle will be blocked in if you park here.) and attach it to something next to the beginning of the drive/parking area. It doesn't have to look like business sign, but as long as it's noticeable it will be contractually enforceable.