My DCs go to my workplace nursery which is on private land. The road up to the nursery and the drop off parking spaces are all on private roads (owned by my employer).
There are two sets of spaces, a shorter stay set which are closer and opposite zig zag lines and barriers which are directly in front of the entrance, and a longer stay set which adjoin the short stay set so are not exactly far to walk. Very very occasionally both sets are full.
When the short stay parking becomes full parents pull in to the zig zag area (which is the approach to the short stay parking too) hoping that a space will be full. They either stay in the car on the zig zags hoping for a space, or they leave one adult in the car on the zig zags while another goes in, or they just dump the car on the zig zags and go in.
Parents could in 99% of cases easily park in the long stay spaces but it's an extra 30 seconds to walk and in the very rare cases that these are full it is worst at pick up time (drop off is more staggered) and there are other employee spaces that are usually free less than 5 minutes walk away where other employees have already gone home.
My questions are:
- is there anything legally the nursery can do? They say "there's nothing we can do" and just shake their heads and look sympathetic when I point out my DS has a habit of running out into the road and that this is illegal and dangerous. They don't even remind parents via email, there are no signs up apart from the painting on the zig zags, and I have suggested an occasional visit by someone from the security department but they say they can't/won't do that.
- has anyone else had experience of a nursery, or indeed a school (though a nursery is more likely to be on private land) dealing with this type of situation effectively? What did they do? I see that local schools have yellow signs up which are really just gentle reminders, but they all have a lollipop person outside who is obviously going to act as a deterrent.