Every abuse of parking mentioned on here has happened at the new school built in the village where I live.
Parents campaigned before the school was built on an eleven acre site for the school to be set back to provide adequate parking: the LEA refused and the parents were told that if they raised any more objections they would lose their new school. The school occupies four and a half acres, including a pre-school (originally a playschool) which was forced into the site, and the remaining six and a half acres are reserved for building.
A three lane one way system was instituted but abused by parents who parked on it and refused to move, and also drove the wrong way..
A suggestion was made that teachers walked to school to allow the parents to use the staff car park.
Parents park on both sides of the road outside the school, have destroyed the grass verges in the nearby roads and create gridlock from 8.30 to 9.30 am and 3.00 to 4.00 pm every school day. One mother parked her car in the middle of the road , locked it and walked into school.
Eight dwellings are being built on the site of a shop and back garden directly opposite the school entrance; there are four parking spaces available. The small terrace house opposite has been turned into two flats, with four cars and one parking space; one occupant operates a beauty business from her flat with regular clients.
Parents are campaigning about illegal and dangerous parking but the police rarely attend when called and refuse to accept photographic evidence or make any attempt to act on it. A public meeting was held but the council and police refused to act on any of the suggestions and talked glibly of compromise.
Parents park across the entrance and exits regularly, and the buses and taxis that collect children from out of area (!) cannot gain entrance to collect the children.
The school has done everything possible to mitigate the appalling situation with walk to school weeks, days, reward systems, no parking zones etc etc etc; nothing works because parents refuse to consider anyone else's needs other than their own. There is a perfectly good car park less than five minutes away which is ignored.
40% of the pupils come from outside the village; they are the main cause of the problem, and all have perfectly good schools they could use, but believe that if they force their children in they will automatically get a place in the neighbouring comprehensive. Not true, but they won't listen.
This is a problem which was foreseen and could have been dealt with if the council had listened, but all they were concerned with was holding on to land for building more houses for an oversubscribed school where there is no room for village children because of all the outsiders let in.