Parking in front of driveways

Poppycat

I would use our drive more if I could but its very steep and daughter who is disabled struggles to get out as passenger side is the steep part compared with other side, I have to reverse in because front end would scrape the driveway. I only use it when I have too.

I must admit I would prefer to park outside my house for security etc, as I got my last car driven into when parked and then a week later vandalised but it was in a different area no far away. Unfortunately that's no always possible to a park outside

If I had a flat driveway I would use it more as it would be more secure plus because the street is narrow less chance of some one hitting car then driving off like I had before.

I used to live in terraced street and we often had a large transit parked outside, in fairness he couldn't park his side, so he wasn't doing it for spite, but it did block a lot of light which I didnt like but I never said anything to him, because there was nought I could do, nor could he always move in any case

tomstickland

tamarto wrote: »

is a parking laybay a dropped curb?

My neighbours seem to think parking infront of my house is far preferable to parking infront of their own :rolleyes:

If their car was ever stolen and i saw it happen i'd not feel compelled to let the police know as if they cared that much surely it'd be parked in front of their own house!

You don't own the road in front of your house. Anyone can park there, and likewise you can park anywhere you like in the road.

adaze

It is illegal, in the sense you are causing an obstruction, if you block somebodys car INTO a drive way, but it is NOT an offence to block an empty drive. Gotta love the English law :rolleyes:. White lines aren't enforceable either unfortunately... don't know if you could get double yellows painted there instead? Can of yellow spray paint

pulliptears

Benny24 wrote: »

Not blocking driveways....but an annoying habit my neighbour has got into across the road.......He has a driveway they have a car and he drives a very large white van. Both can easily be parked on their driveway next to their house. Our side of the road does not have driveways. He parks the car on his driveway, but insists on parking his hoofing great van right infront of my house........so when I look out of my front window i'm confronted with a wall of white.
So inconsiderate, but I have no right to a view, and a police request to park his van on his own driveway got me nowhere!

My Mum had this problem, but the guy who owned the van lived halfway down the street! Dad started to park his car outside for a few weeks and then bought it in on his own drive before he went to bed. white van moved to the neighbours down the road who did the same. In the end people power won and he actually parks it on his own drive now!

johnbakie

We recently moved into a ground floor conversion flat and when we first moved in we found the guy upstairs parked across the drive a couple of times (the driveway and garden are part of the downstairs flat). I thought it would be a problem as the previous tenant did not have a car and so allowed them to park there.but after I spoke to the bloke upstairs he has parked further down the road.
However, earlier this evening my girlfriend returned from work to find a huge great big van parked across the drive. I'd seen it parked around the street before but don't know who it belongs to. I went out with a colleague after work so didn't see it happen and she was a bit nervous about knocking on a load of doors to find out who it belonged to. The van drove off shortly before i got home so she was able to move her car back onto the drive (which we need to do for insurance purposes). She had put a note under the wiper saying that they cannot park there but the guy had thoughtfully thrown a banana skin and coke bottle onto the pavement outside our house as he left.
I do not understand how anyone thinks it is acceptable to park over a driveway with a dropped kerb. I've never seen this kind of thing happen before, even on my mum's road which only has shared driveways, but it seems like it's quite common from reading these threads. These people should get points on their licence if the police need to be called as it's clearly a waste of police and if it were to happen overnight then my girlfriend might not be able to drive to work in the morning. She works at a nursery school and they have strict rules on how many staff they need to have in at certain times so if she was held up becase of this inconsiderate behaviour then it could risk her job. The van has yet to return to the street and i'm weary of going to bed before it does incase she finds herself blocked in tomorrow morning.

judderman62

clutterfrazzled wrote: »

In the end the only thing that got through to him was whenever he did this we made the point of ‘needing’ to use the car. This was usually about the time we judged he had just about settled down after getting in. - For sheer satisfaction the best times though were when we knew he had gone to bed or early in the morning. (Need good excuses for these times though.)

It hasn’t been a problem for a long time.

I'm liking this idea :D :T:T

ekkygirl

My friend parked a little bit in front of someones, drive not blocking them in but still .....When she came back from shopping the owners of the driveway had clingfilmed her car...... seriously, the whole car... I laughed till I cried.
Another friend has a big white van, so does the bloke a few doors down from him, This bloke doesnt like a great big van (his own) outside his house so started parking outside my friends house which left no room for my friends van, This went on for a few weeks until my friend BLOCKED other blokes drive with his van and went out so other blokes wife had to wait to park her car in her own drive. Nothing was ever said. Problem sorted

golddustmedia

When I was a child my parents lived on a road with a church near the bottom of it. Every Sunday all the god squad used to block peoples drive ways. It got really annoying as one day we were prevent from going to an arranged social event and you can't exactly march into the church mid sermon and demand someone move their car.

So my Dad cut a round piece of paper the same size as a tax disc, wrote a rude message on it and superglued it to their windscreen exactly obscuring their tax disc. Hopefully it wasn't found until a policeman wanted to check the tax...

bestpud

golddustmedia wrote: »

So my Dad cut a round piece of paper the same size as a tax disc, wrote a rude message on it and superglued it to their windscreen exactly obscuring their tax disc. Hopefully it wasn't found until a policeman wanted to check the tax...

:rotfl: I like that one!

Butterfliesarepretty

heather38 wrote: »

You live in the same town as me, and your road is exactly the same as mine.(infact it sounds like the same street!) i live 2 houses up from one of the car parks at the end and when it's full in the day from the people in the factory using it i often come home from shopping to find people parked out side my house, my old neighbours didn't have a car so not so much of a problem, but the new people do so i can't park there now.

Milliken is the factory on the street, lorries always blocking the way.