to think I should be able to park near the school?

it warrants being direct! They’re absolutely taking the piss by parking on your driveway

Absolutely Fucking rediculous!!! Can't these people walk? You are making your child obese and unhealthy by not walking to school, and putting other children in danger, you lazy bitches. Only if your child has a disability and can't actually walk to school should you be doing this.

I think some do it becomes part of the socialisation.

So mum one, self employed sets her own hours and locations, always at the road parked up for 2pm. Mum two she parks up 2:10pm gets out of her car and sits in mum ones vaping away chatting till 3:10pm.

Mum two works in a company that’s 20 minutes drive away, lives a 15 minute walk away. She had time to go home and walk.

Both of those mums could walk or could park further away and walk a bit they chose not too and that’s just two of the cars out of the whole row who where there daily so not one offs.

A lot were also sahm or rather housewife’s at that point. You’d see social media posts of 5 of the ladies out to lunch together and then them all there in their 5 Individual cars again all live within 20 minutes walk tops.

As much as I’d love to, it is just driveway and no garden….so I would be putting the aggressive in passive aggressive with that!

Yeah happens at all the schools. What amazes me is that secondary students can do a full day walking from class to class often in large schools, do PE, but the moment they leave the gate their legs cease to work at all.
I wish they would put cameras outside schools and fine the double parkers. Once there was parents double parking on both sides and they blocked the entire road, it links onto a major A road, chaos.

I'm not sure I get it, why does living 7 miles away stop you from parking 3-4 streets away (e.g. at their parents' house) and walking to/ from the car instead of blocking up the street for 20 minutes. What is it about your situation that needs sympathy? If it's that you don't want the grandchildren, then that's something to talk to your own kids about but not relevant.

I live 3 doors down from a primary school, there are cars parking up as early as 2.15pm for pick up and they sit in there car waiting for a hour. Daily my drive is blocked by people parking outside my drive. It really is a pain. Iv noticed alot of people who live within a 10 minute walk of the school driving to do the school run also which absolutely baffles me.

@llynTegid for councilor! I'd vote for you!
Do you have any policies for those who are quite sure it wasn't THEIR dog that just had a poo? (Right there, in front of our eyes, but apparently not theirs.... even though they had to stand still to wait for it to finish.)

Anyway you could engineer timed sprinklers

m.youtube.com/watch?v=IaTgpO8AN_E

Idling your engine while stationary is an offence. You can be fined for it

https://www.richmond.gov.uk/engine_idling

I used to work in an office opposite a school. It was a quiet road, maybe one car every 2-3 minutes. Except at 2.30pm when it became carnage. 20-30 cars parked, idling engines for the heat or air con which drove us mad because it was like a low-level hum. I asked one person why she drove - because of all the traffic, she said. Yes the traffic they caused!

I once lived near a school and had the misfortune of driving down a road with a school on it. I couldn't move for 15 minutes for all the cars double parked with their kids getting in. I emailed the head and she asked me to write to the council because she agreed it was so bad. It is a serious issue and creates havoc for many others.

I live 7 miles away from my grandchildren’s school and pick them up twice a week. Walking is out of the question, so I have to arrive early and ‘park up’ for about 20 minutes. Have some sympathy for those who don’t live a few minutes away from the school!

It starts at 145pm at my DC's school and pick up is 330pm. Always the same few cars at the front morning and at pick up. Thing is, it's an over subscribed school - every year so many are refused. The furthest distance of admittance for the school the last few years has been about half a mile max. Every child at the school lives on the estate - and the school is in the centre of it. I honestly don't understand it.

The argument I've always seen from parents who do this is that they finish work at 2 and go straight there. But I still don't get it. Personally, when I've been in this situation where I have finished work early or DC are in school late, I always make the most of the extra 45 minutes and I go to a charity shop or a supermarket on my way from work. I've even called home when I only have 15 minutes as it means I can load the dishwasher, put a wash on and make a cup of tea to take with me or grab the kids a snack. Anything is better than sitting in the car for half an hour or more.

Yes it is bizarre. I knew someone who would go and park early and sit and read. I like a good book but can think of better places to be. It's a bit like getting to school church services and hour before. I used to get there 5 mins before and stand at the back quite happily!

A 30 minute parking restriction and a few zealous traffic wardens would stop this nonsense. Or a large congestion charge with exemptions for parents collecting children with disabilities.

And it's those exact same ppl reserving the chairs by the pool but not coming down to the pool till after 1pm 🤦‍♀️

Gosh that would be like me, have no back up so you wonder if it’s worth it. But my god how entitled! And to think they’re parents also 😬

I would leave my drive empty, Walt until they go to pick up and then park across it…

I live near a primary school and there’s a woman who parks opposite my house from about 2pm every day. She was standing outside the car the other day (presumably to get some air) and she was wearing a lanyard, so I want to give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she’s coming from work and it’s more time efficient to wait for an hour than to go home and come back. I can’t imagine that’ll be the case for everyone though.

Yes our old home parents were parking from 1pm to get a parking space. Same roads were used for a large secondary school plus a primary school and a nursery all on the same stretch of street.

saying that though parking wardens were always about.

My ex inlaws used to collect their grandchild from school they woukd park up around 12/1pm and nap in the car set the alarm on their phone to wake up in time

Fucking bizarre behaviour tbh

(Not my child but my child's school so I would regularly pass them while I walked snoozing away)

Because I live alone and I tried that once and I just got a load of verbal back.

Do they not have anything better to do? Mad twats.

I have to drive to school - it’s 5 miles away, with very limited parking as it’s a very touristy village. I finish work at 2pm and I’m there from 2.20pm. School finishes at 3.20pm. There are no “other streets” to park down because the village is in the middle of nowhere. There is a main road in and out of the village but you’re not allowed to park on it.