People with driveways parking on the street

THIS is the kind of selfish arsehole I am talking about. Don't give a shit about anyone else, just lump all their cunty vehicles onto the road, (even though they have a driveway,) inconveniencing people, and making it hard to get in and out of your own driveway.

Sounds like a few such people are residing on this thread. I am so glad I don't live near them! (Yeah yeah yeah, you're glad you don't live near me too la la la.....' 🙄)

I don't like parking on the drive in my small car as I can't see to get out very easily so DH parks on the drive in his SUV which is higher, our caravan is on the drive anyway so there is not room for both cars but if it was just my little car I would probably park on the street as it is safer.

We live on a street where everyone has a driveway. Our new neighbours have a large white van that they park across their own driveway and a car they park in front of our house, thus making reducing my manoeuvring space and therefore making it harder for me to park in my driveway. If they parked the car on their driveway and the van in fron of the house it would make my life easier. Not sure why they do it. Maybe I should start parking in front of my house to stop them doing it 🤔 . I thought when we had a driveway the way other people parked would annoy me less but I'm not sure it has 😂.

We haven't got a drive but both houses either side of us have. One side used to do this and it was annoying. We have had two cars written off because of drunk drivers over the years and now no one opts to park on the road if they've got drives. Coincidence?!

I’d ask if they would mind you parking on their driveway when you get back at night.

Exactly this. Some people are such selfish arseholes though, that they don't give a shit if they inconvenience other people. As long as THEY are OK.

If they weren’t using it Somebody else would so you might not get it anyway

Haha I obviously hit a nerve with you darling - well done for constructing a sentence without a swear word 🙃 @BatchCookBabe

I very much agree with this. There are some roads here where the driveways are very narrow and people park outside of the permitted parking areas and make it very difficult indeed to either get into or exit from the driveway.

Fine, are you HUN? 😆

For me the problem is getting out of my drive when cars are parked on either side of it. We are on a busy road and we have to turn onto oncoming traffic and its impossible to see anything. The biggest culprit are our next door neighbours who also have a drive and are the first to complain if someone does it to them

I do also agree with this. If the parking is that difficult, someone else would stop you parking there if they didn't.

You ok hun?

Dont take this advice, it's ridiculous. And you're committing a traffic offence if they've got a dropped kerb.

And I'm glad I'm not yours. YOU sound like a nightmare.

Now go park on the road even though you have a driveway. Clearly you are someone who does this, and I have hit a raw nerve. that's why you're so salty!

Glad Im not your neighbour - you sound like a nightmare @BatchCookBabe

Yeah, so what?

Why don’t you knock on and speak to them?

My road is a free for all but no one parks outside the house opposite me because we know the lady living there has mobility issues. If someone was heavily pregnant and said they were struggling, it would be the same.

They can’t know you’re inconvenienced unless you tell them. The reason they park on the road is irrelevant - they’re legally entitled to and you haven’t given them a reason to park in a different spot.

@BatchCookBabe wow - angry much??

Well that's a really aggressive and nasty thing to suggest.

Also, although the council might not actually do anything about it, if the Council has set up a "Special Enforcement Area" then it is an offence to block a driveway (even if there isn't a car on it) without the consent of the occupier of the premises.

Where I live, the whole city is covered by this and the local council hand out PCNs at £70 a go (reduced to £35 if paid within 14 days).

My mum and dad had these neighbours for a while outside of their home where the parking is a public lay-by. Everyone just used to drive over the cones or push them up so they sat between parked cars. They gave up after replacing them multiple times.

I like the idea of asking if you can use their driveway given that they don't seem to use it, you can't park outside your house when they are there, and you are pregnant.

YANBU. You have to be a special kind of inconsiderate arsehole to park on the street, when you have got a perfectly decent driveway. It's the worst kind of selfish, arrogant, inconsiderate twats who do this IMO. Usually self-serving and selfish in other parts of their life too.

The 'if it's legal to park there what's the problem' brigade always show up on these kinds of threads. This is a case of 'just because you CAN do something, that doesn't necessarily mean you SHOULD!' If you have a driveway, stick your fucking car on it!

Maybe everyone in the street should park on the road eh?!

I would be so tempted to get together with another neighbour, and completely block them in - every time. (And then piss off out for a few hours.)

Could you ask them if they would rent you their drive if they are not using it?

This will really annoy me for sure, but as you pointed out they are not doing anything illegal, so I personally won't be brave enough to talk to them. If you are, you certainly can raise it.