I live in a road with a school

The issue is worsening due to no enforcement

the issue is worsening as more people drive their children to school and some park like entitled toddlers

anpr cameras and bollards, operation snap fir ridiculous parking and it’d stop. Imagine getting £80 fine from police fir illegal parking and then realising you did it every day for a week 🤦‍♀️

The issue is worsening due to no enforcement. Neither police nor councils have the budget to deal with minor traffic issues like like.

Thanks go to the Tories for cutting services so much.

Although I don't live in a school road, I am a childminder who goes daily to drop off and pick up from a one form entry primary school. This school is next to our parish church at the edge of our town centre and is at the end of a cul de sac. There is a large turning circle at the end of the road which has a private road entrance off it opposite the entrance to the school car park, which is also shared with Almshouses.

There is no pavement around the end if the cul de sac so you need to walk across it to access the school. The amount of parents who park in the cul de sac on the zig zags and double yellow lines plus partly across the private road entrance make it so dangerous for any one trying to cross over on to the pavement and especially with young children plus school children, as you have to stand and wait for those who are parked to move plus wait for those who have parked further up the cul de sac, but then have to drive down to turn round to get out again and who have no respect for anyone trying to get to cross the road. It certainly seems to have got worse over this school year and especially when wet! I always walk to school with the children as I would not want to try and park our minibus down there due to lack of parking spaces and then having to spend time getting children in and out of the minibus and driving home again when I can walk it in just over 15 minutes easily and would spend nearly that total time loading the minibus, driving , finding a parking space and unloading it again, putting up a double buggy if needed and then repeating in reverse with extra children on either drop off or pick up. The exercise is healthy for them and me and we have good conversations on the way.

I am aware that the school doesn't have a catchment as such as it is a Church Aided School therefore the pupils come from across the town and parents would need to drive there, but there is a car park nearby they can use without having to pay for, with a permit given out by school, which is only a few minutes away. A lot of parents do use this car park, but there is always those who are repeat offenders with their parking antics at school. Messages go out in the school newsletter, as at other schools, but it doesn't really make much difference. It only improves if the parking warden is around.

I would be taking photos and posting on Facebook without doubt if this were my drive.

Where are people getting these stickers that are hard to remove to put on cars, and is it illegal?

I live just along from our first school too OP. Fortunately DS attends this first school and since it's only a small(ish) school, he tends to recognise the kids or knows them by name. I had a parent block my drive once and DS shouted over the car "Hi Milo, why are you parked on my driveway?" Which had me giggling and the mam was mortified.
I did also once, when I had our car on the driveway and my work rental car blocking my drive way, have a parent "jokingly" complain that some selfish bugger had stolen her parking space. She clearly didn't know it was my house and my cars she kept blocking in. Hilarious when I told her

I e been fortunate, I’ve had only a couple of people park across my drive. I don’t ask them to move, but I do take there photo and they’ve asked me what I’m doing? I let them know I’m going to post it on local Facebook to show them blocking my drive. Incredible they e both moved 🤷‍♀️

ive erased the driver, they moved and blocked someone else’s drive on that day. I have noticed they park round the corner now

YANBU

Live almost opposite a primary school and the parents entitlement is unbelievable. Even when they have parked across my drive and they are stopping me from leaving no urgency or apologies. I do email the school every so often and I'm sure it then goes in the weekly email or whatever but I get it's not within their control.

But then the best thing happened on Friday, mobile parking attendant was giving out tickets including someone parking across my drive. Made my week.

We are in a neighbouring council area to you @chailatte8 and they are consulting on doing similar. Can’t come soon enough.

I don’t live in a street with a school, but I have to drive down one everyday near drop off/ pick up time to get to where I need to be. I don’t know how you stand it. I used to use this school and would park streets away and walk to avoid snarling up the street.
The sheer ignorance of people is amazing - they somehow think because they have a child in that school, no road rules apply. Parking on zig zags, not looking when pulling out, assuming all rights of way, parking on yellows and blocking sight lines…..the list goes on because they have a child, don’t you know.

www.glasgow.gov.uk/26208#:~:text=The%20new%20car%20free%20zones,each%20weekday%2C%20during%20term%20time.

We have this in my local area. If link doesn't work -

The new car free zones have been introduced on a temporary basis to allow them to be implemented quickly. The zones are designed to prohibit cars and other vehicles from driving up to school gates between 8.30am and 9.15am and then 2.30pm and 3.15pm each weekday, during term time.

I believe street get a permit and are able to drive during those times.

Might be worthwhile trying to pursue via your local council

YANBU. I park round the corner from DS school. Long road with no houses, about a minute walk to the gate, plenty of room yet people still park opposite the school, over driveways, around junctions. Nightmare trying to get shifted through there and I'd hate to live in the middle of it.

There are actually two schools next to each other. The council installed barriers outside of one school, to stop people parking on the path, but then not outside of the other, so there's still people squeeze in a section of path to use it as a personal parking space. Then they're reversing out when there's kids running around, given it's a path. Will never understand how selfish some people can be.

I grew up in a house opposite a primary school. These things were happening 40y ago. Nothing has changed.

We had a wide, 2foot high garden wall, which my parents had no objection to parents or children sitting on, or children playing on it and jumping the gap for the path. But when they started throwing litter into our garden and actually picking our flowers, mum saw red. She would set the sprinkler up so that it just reached the wall, but only turn the tap if they behaved anti-socially.

Parents would park across our drive, and behave quite aggressively if mum had the temerity to want to leave to collect my younger siblings.

If mum had already left, they would even park right on our drive. My school had different term dates to the one opposite, so if I was around I would go out and let down a tyre or two.

I certainly wouldn't be hiding the registration numbers on those cars. Expose the idiots.

This is the end of a the school rd round the corner, the driver though it’s was ok to park across the junction.

Had this for years. Primary school at one end and nursery at the other end. Parents would double park, park on the pavement, on or across drives
On the days I dropped or picked up my children (from secondary school) I could rarely park on my drive as it would be blocked. So I'd have to park a couple of roads away and move car later.
Contacted school many times. The head (according to NDN) did tell parents constantly to park safety and be respectful to residents but never worked.
So you have my sympathies and hopefully the school will be able to help you and involve the police. We should have done this.

We live near a primary school and this happens on our road every single day, it’s a narrow cul de sac so we get trapped in. Can’t get the pram down but the path, parents swear if you ask them to move. This was this weeks parking special, police and local council aren’t bothered despite there being a number of crashes on our street.

The complain about inconsiderate, entitled driving. That shouldn’t happen anywhere - but least if all around a place where children are trying to walk to school

Usually @Mnk711 it’s a variation on “I’m only going to be 2 minutes” or “but it’s raining” or “I’m late”.

I can't believe people park on people's driveways😱If someone did that to me I'd absolutely block them in and then ask them why they thought their parking on someone else's property was acceptable. Outrageous.

A house close to us has put large stylish rocks all the way along the grass where people were parking. Is working a treat! They’ve also emailed the school before and apparently the school sent home letters. Keep on it, people just get worse and worse and everything gets more chaotic if nobody steps in (and everyone will get used to whatever solutions they find, our school has cut off areas and it was a pain at first but now we all adhere and it’s definitely safer)

Absolutely contact the school.

If someone parked on my drive I'd be accidentally dropping nails in front of their tyres.

Our school is a nightmare for this, we've had at least 3 children hit by cars mounting pavements in the past year and still nothing is done. I've overheard absolute twats whine about how it takes ages to drive 5 minutes down the road and park directly outside the school gates, clearly too thick to understand that they are the entire problem.

Also just to point out that "contact the governors" doesn't apply in Scotland, where we don't have governors.