How to stop this guy from parking across our drive

It used not to be illegal to park across a dropped kerb if the driveway was empty, but since about ten years ago it IS illegal. It’s in the Highway Code (sorry can’t remember the section) and should be on your local council’s website. You can get him issued with a penalty notice, though in practice this is easier said than done - weekends, unavailability/unwillingness of parking wardens etc.
It happens to us a lot - school and children’s playground just over the road. Why on earth can’t people just tap at the door and ask if you mind them parking for half an hour or whatever? A neighbour has printed out a sheet explaining the law and that a penalty notice may be forthcoming. We pop one if those under the wipers.

Think it's been sorted peeps ???????

JaneJudge

The big muscly neighbour, he's so large !! has told me it isn't sorted and he intends to park in front of the drive tomorrow

And the next day if it isn't sorted!
???

It's difficult if you dont like confrontation but you really should give your neighbour the benefit of the doubt and approach him at least once to politely ask him not to block you in and take the opportunity to introduce yourself

May7

It's difficult if you dont like confrontation but you really should give your neighbour the benefit of the doubt and approach him at least once to politely ask him not to block you in and take the opportunity to introduce yourself

Hallo! Rumour has it this has been sorted ....days ago...mentioned 83 times on this thread.

You can be assertive without being aggressive, just because he's big it doesn't mean he has the right to bully you. Surely you can ask politely, hes probably just a bit thick, to realise you need to get out of your driveway, surely he's seen the car. You can't stay in just because someone's in your way, it's not sensible. And it's your right, get him told.

This is upsetting do soon after a move. It may be the case that the offender has done this for a while without previous complaint. You have a number of options where someone's obstructing access to the highway via an official dropped kerb.
1. You can speak to the owner or leave a polite note requesting that they leave your access unobstructed. Try to find out what you can about the offender first from other neighbours and whether there is street parking available close by so that you have a good understanding of likely response.
2. If that doesn't work and behaviour persists , you can report them to the local council for anti social behaviour. You will need diary notes of the incidents as it will need to be regular and frequent.. You might want to ask a local councillor to assist on resolving the issue.
3. Nuclear option - obtain an injunction requiring the offender to cease.

Alternatively if you don't want to do any of the above you could try to park your own vehicle in front of your dropped kerb regularly to try break the regular pattern of behaviour.

This has been resolved!,, Read the thread !

Meryl Yes, maybe the original OP problem in this matter has been sorted. But this has thrown up the fact that other people have similar problems.
Do not think it is up to you, or any individual, to try to 'police' the posts people are making.
Often, when someone raised any issue or question, it gives the opportunity for other people with similar issues to come along and talk about what is effecting them.
Please let posters make their comments without wasting space telling them 'It's sorted'.

We had a similar problem with a neighbour who asked if they could park across our drive on one occasion as they couldnt find a space and my husband said yes. However they then assumed they had the right to use it permanently. They are very aloof and unfriendly normally , park their car across and then ignore you . I got really fed up with it after it had been left there for days and wrote a polite note and stuck it under her window wipers early one morning headed asking her to refrain from parking there as it prevented us from getting out in an emergency and it also stopped us from turning right out of our own drive . She always parked it , just leaving enough room to squeeze out!!
She hasn't parked it there since . We didnt confront her and since she never acknowledges us any way it wasnt a problem .

You could ask him to move his car and explain that you need to be able to get out at all times, perhaps if you go out very often he will get fed up of having to move it and will find somewhere else. You could park your car there so that he has to find somewhere else. Put some No Parking signs or cones in the space and signs saying access required at all times. He sounds very inconsiderate.

If you are boxed in and need to get your car out then politely ask him to move his car to let you out. He probably hasn't even noticed that you can't get out, maybe he thinks he has left enough room for you. This lad has probably been parking in that spot for ages and doesn't know that things have now changed in the neighbourhood. There is nothing to be nervous about you all need to live together.

If your car was in evidence then he has a cheek and might just be trying it on. However, perhaps the previous owners didn’t mind or was the house unoccupied? In any case just knock and smile, introduce yourself and say you need to get your car out and he probably didn’t realise you had moved in. Not sure why you should be so frightened of doing this unless you have moved into a really rough sort of neighbourhood full of violence. In which case sign up for self defence/judo classes right away.

Has he been back, Itsawelshthing?

Lucca
Hallo! Rumour has it this has been sorted ....days ago...mentioned 83 times on this thread.

Hello
I know the OP has returned and said its sorted but it isnt really is it??
It's just a problem that's been averted until next time.

I just wanted to add my opinion and for the OP to know she is not on her own in disliking confrontation.

He was a huge, beastly, bulging man and he was wearing a blue leisure suit. #ChevyChase

Most people do not usually block people’s driveways and leave their cars there. It’s quite antisocial behaviour. Wasn’t there some research that showed that people who park in disability bays and who are not disabled for example, have other antisocial, or lawbreaking traits?

There's a man based in London who likes Martini. He'll get it moved for you if it happens again ???

I am hoping he parks across the drive again so the OP can come back for more advice!
And next time a diagram would be useful too and maybe a sketch of the offender.

Please don’t try and involve the Police, they’ve got enough to do!
Just ask him to shift!

rugbymumcumbria In extremis, you do contact the police, because the owner of the car is unamenable to reason or threatens violence, that is one of the many things the police do.

A relation had to do it because he needed at times to get his wife to hospital in an emergency, which he couldn't do with a car parked across the very narrow drive to his garage.

The police just put tickets on the offending vehicles and after a month or two, they got the message and the problem ceased.

please be careful.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9601061/Grandfather-72-killed-man-wielding-brick-dispute-parking-cul-sac.html

Knock on wood he has not parked in front of my drive.... I hope I haven't jinxed it as I am off to work today!

I once parked on a dropped kerb without realising and was fined £60 by the Council. Perhaps you could "helpfully" go round and ask Parker if he realises parking on dropped kerbs is a fining offence. You could also mention that "in case of emergency, etc" as suggested by MollyAA12.

I came home after a week away to find a car parked on my drive. I called the police who said there was nothing they could do as it was on private land. After several hours, I discovered who owned it and he was very stroppy about moving it as 'there was nowhere else to park'! He was so nasty, my husband blocked him in with his car and made him pay £50 'parking fee' to let him out! The guy called me a racist because I told him not to spit on the ground! The police then came to see me to check I wasn't a racist. You couldn't make it up!!!