Parking

Our council will take action if someone parks across our dropped kerbs so long as we have registered said dropped kerb. ".... you need to be registered with the council as being associated with the relevant dropped kerb. You are then able to telephone the council about specific incidents and request that the council issues a PCN".

Trouble is that they work office hours and we have trouble with people blocking us in overnight and at the weekends so it's a bit of a toothless bulldog. I do leave a note and threaten to report them and it's sometimes effective. My immediate neighbours with whom I do not want to fall out, see it as an always available space for their visitors, particularly there two twenty something fit sons who park there to avoid walking 50 yards from further up the road.
There is a council out of hours phone number but I would put money on it that I would not find a traffic warden to be available on a Sunday morning at 7 when I want to go for a swim.

I don't think you're being unreasonable to expect considerate parking from your neighbours.

Parking issues where I live in Dorset no longer come under the auspices if the police. I contacted our local council who gave me the direct number to the parking management team who deal with this sort of thing. People are not allowed to park over driveways or to part-park over driveways.

Our problems only occur during the better weather! We are very close to the beach and our road offers free parking. I was driven to distraction by selfish people partly blocking the drive, chucking their rubbish into our garden and being a real nuisance.
I contacted our local councillor who was very helpful and now have double yellow lines over the drive and 20 yards either side. Hurrah!

If ever I see a car on the double yellow lines, I ring parking management and they come along and issue a fixed penalty notice.

So my advice would to be persistent
....... Good luck

Phone the police tell them a driver has blocked your access and you want to get of your drive way. Worked for me when someone kept doing the same, never did it again.

Ps I should add these people are not our neighbours as we all have long drives & adequate parking. No-one wants to get into a parking war with the neighbours so a gentle approach to persistent offenders to start with!!!

Some years ago my aunt and uncle had a problem with people blocking their drive. My aunt was not in good health and on several occasions DU had had to get the car out and get her to A&E in a hurry.

His council would not put double yellow lines across the drive way, so every time someone parked across the driveway he phoned the police. After the police had issued a succession of parking tickets to the main offenders, miracle, no parking across his drive.

Where I used to live was fairly close to a railway station so you would have people park their cars over our driveways and go off to London for work. My husband and I came home from work and we blocked the driver in between our cars. Person came back and asked if the car was mine. I told him the car behind his was an inconsiderate commuter and the other car in front was my sisters car who couldn't park in my driveway because he had blocked the drive and was at work . Made him sit in his car for an hour before going out and saying sister had phoned and luckily had left her car key's in the coat she'd left at mine !

I have been plagued by rogue car parkers in my last 3 properties. No 1 was near a school and cars parked across the end of the drive, No 2 was a drive to an old house near the centre of a Cotswold village, visitors fed up with trying to park near the shops would abandon their cars in the entrance to the driveway -"just popping along to the butchers". Now my retirement complex has a large car park with more spaces than cars so parents at the nearby school are allowed to use the spaces at pick up time, needless to say this is frequently abused, they park in resident only spaces, and across the back of residents cars. Some of these yummy mummies are convinced they have a right to park rather than a neighbourly concession.

Take a photo of the tyre marks and post it through her letter box. It might not stop her doing it but it will let her know how annoyed you are and what a mess it looks.

I have often had a problem with my neighbours visitors blocking the entrance to my driveway. Ok so I do not have a car anymore,that does not mean I do not have family and friends come to visit.Also what if I needed the emergency services if I had a fire or was ill. The most I have done is leave a note under their windscreen wiper saying please do not block my driveway. No notice taken they just think I am a cranky old woman.So fed up I wish I could move away.

This is an annoyance for me at the moment. The lady next door is having yet more work done (it's gone on for 3yrs now!)
This time it has involved scaffolding. We live on a narrow road - just one car's width. This very long scaffolding lorry insists on parking opposite my drive and so I can't get out without he moves his lorry. I explained to him that there should always be room for a fire engine or ambulance to pass. hHe replied,"If there is a fire, I'll be the 1st one away." He didn't move his lorry told me to change my attitude.
. Then I can't get back in. The 1st time I managed to catch him parking, I politely asked him to give me chance to get out of my drive. His reply, "How long are you going to be." Then when I was out and wanting to come back in, he ignored my 6+ point turn effort to reverse on to my drive. I was then completely blocking the road. This stopped a neighbour getting to his house and so the lorry driver moved for him but quickly moved back before I could get into my drive. I asked again and explained I would hit his lorry, if I tried to reverse into my drive. His reply, "Don't worry about my lorry." Eventually he did let me get onto my drive because a delivery van arrived and couldn't get past.
i was told the lorry would be here for 2 days, it is now 2 weeks since the scaffolding went up.
I'm told that i law there is no action I can take.

My DD and sil live in a street where there are insufficient paking spaces. Thankfully they have a driveway, just a shame they can't get on it because other people's cars block their access.
I did see an article last year where someone blocked a private driveway off every day whilst they went to work. One day they came to collect their car and found that the homeowner had arranged for a skip to be placed either side. They were left in that position for a number of days

Take the Police Officers Number and make a formal complaint and get a ref. number.
It's an offence to block restricted parking areas as it is also an offence to obstruct a pavement although it is not an offence to park on the pavement as long as it's not obstruction. Take a photo of the situation and follow up the complaint. The Police will have an obligation to advise why they did not act and should then think again about it the next time it happens. I've been in the position of a Complainant in a situation exactly like this and it eventually, on the 3rd occasion resulted in 7 vehicles being ticketed over 3 nights in Nov.2016. The problem has now stopped!

Parking? Grr....
We have a shared drive. When we first moved in, we paid several thousand pounds to turn the top end of our front garden into a parking bay for our own two cars because the drive slopes down to the two houses rather steeply. My neighbour then thought it gave her carte blance to use the whole drive for herself. Her logic is, 'Well, you park your cars on your hardstanding!' Apparently we don't need access to our drive although it is our property. This evening she had visitors who completely blocked the drive so I had to ask her to ask them to move their car because my son needed access to the drive as he was bringing DGS. Reluctanly, she agreed. This has happened on numerous ocassions. She doesn't drive and, having no car of her own, she used to rent out her part of the drive to a woman who worked locally. The woman was a terrible driver and once reversed hard up the drive and hit my car where it was parked on my hard standing! We love our house and have no intention of moving but it has caused a lot of bad feeling between us.

.Visitors can park in the road with a visitor voucher which can be obtained very cheaply. However, she seems reluctant to go along with this. Of course,we are the 'bad guys' and she feels 'victimised' as she is a widow ( albeit a wealthy one) and lives alone.

Sorry I have not been back sooner, domestic crisis on another matter! Does any of this ever end?
This street has a fair few cars parked in it. At the time this female parked partially over my drive there was no shortage of spaces she could have parked in. There is frontage to my house and the other half of my semi detached house on which 3 cars could park quite comfortably. On that day there were only her car which was over part of my driveway. There were spaces on the other side of the street too. I think this lady is a particularly useless driver she bumps cars parks without sense, and does not appear to know the size of her car. She is a nurse and is currently parked in the disabled space for this house. When she hit my car 3 years ago she insisted on paying for the damage herself rather than going through the insurance. Her car had numerous dents and scratches and scores on it.
The couple who think their wish to park under their window out does a disabled space were seen parking on Monday of this week. There was a space which would have done 2 or 3 cars but the man reversed so far back that he hit another neighbour's car. He hit a car I have over 7 years ago. He was also seen a while ago making a real mess of parking his car. This was at the time I was paying for 2 of my DCs to have driving lessons. I told them this is how NOT to drive.
I had the block paved area made to try t get a bit away from these people who do not seem to have any driving sense.
I just don't get their attitude to parking and/or driving. I would love to have words with whoever granted them licences to drive with such obvious lack of skill.
It is skill that is lacking as well as manners and good grace not to cause problems for others.
SPF

You could ask her if she needs to go to Specsavers

Not being facetious - it is worrying if she has had so many bumps etc. Could she have an eyesight problem or even cataracts? Or just no spatial awareness.

I would have expected this woman to be well aware of health issues given that she is a nurse and her husband she told me was a Dr. I had her work phone number and I am aware of the place she works at. It is a very specialised place. Surely a member of staff at work would have noticed something.
I think it is either spatial awareness or self importance that is her problem.
SPF

Put a note on her windscreen. Most of the roads round us, including ours, have big cars half parked on the pavements. Either people don't know how to park nowadays or it has become an accepted norm that the pavement is part of the road. Some of them I wish they could be fined, like those parked on double yellow lines etc.

As I type this, some idiot has parked in my allocated car park space. I have no idea who he/she is visiting which is a pity. I have put a note under the windscreen but no doubt it will be thrown to the ground when they drive away. Grrr

We live on a fairly narrow suburban road and have parking problems with students from a local college. They all park with two wheels on the path but when the police called to assess the situation we were told that, as long as a wheelchair or pushchair could pass, even with difficulty, then they wouldn't take any action!
Our local town council have flyers ,referring to courteous parking, which I have placed under wipers, but to no avail.
Put up and shut up I think !!

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Bluetrigger Could you stop adding your opinion of this guy to EVERY post on this social network? I'm sure you are very annoyed at him, but what good do you think it does to tell a whole load of people who have nothing whatseover to do with it and can't do anything about it? Find somewhere that CAN do something and concentrate your rants there!