To ask if you have ever solved parking on zig-zag lines issues at your school?

I don't think anything can solve it. There are a handful of key offenders at our school who are always parked on the zig zags or else double park blocking the road with hazards on whilst their precious DC get out the car and make it through the school gate. 2 I know for a fact (very distinctive car and personalised number plate, and white van guy with ladders and company name plastered across his van) are just parking twats in general. I often sight them round town, parked on double yellows, parked entirely on the pavement, blocking drives, parked in blue badge spaces with no blue badge, double parking in narrow roads with hazards on. So their selfish, twat parking is not limited to just the school gate.

Obviously it depends on there being space/suitable layout but I think having a proper drop off zone (doesn't have to be in a car park but somewhere children can safely get out straight into the care of school staff) seems the best option so that parents don't need to park.

Having said that all the schools I've been involved with have encouraged biking/scooting/walking to school (even if it's park a distance away and walk) and offer incentives to kids for doing so. But of course some parents are so stupid or oblivious they wouldn't walk even if their kid was begging them to. And some people genuinely can't due to disability, distance or having to go straight on to work.

I very much agree!
Some parents arrive 30 minutes early to get a spot nearest the school and keep their engines running the whole time. Aircon in summer, heating in winter. Seemingly oblivious to the exhaust fumes pumping out. Drives me nuts!

The other option which will never happen is to regard it as a safeguarding issue. If you don't drive in a safe manner it is a form of child neglect.

The road our local school is on is o
residents only at start / end of school day. There are traffic wardens who came and fine anyone who drives and stops. It doesn't stop parents still driving down the road and stopping - this is despite a huge car park literally 2 mins walk away. Some parents are just idiots. The best are those which just do a drive by drop off and children jump out the car and run across the road or those who encourage their child to fling open the door onto the pavement.

Enjoy! Where I live, between the LTNs (which no doubt you love), and the school streets local residents are miserable with nearly all traffic forced on one road and public transport at a standstill.

In short, they haven't. It was a problem when my DS was at the local school (and he's late 20's now) and it's still a problem now.
To make matters worse, the school is on a bend, quickly followed by another bend, which the zig zags go all the way around, and they still park on the zig zags and the bend causing complete chaos to through traffic in the village.
There was a 'rant' on the local social media about it a few months back when there was a daytime event at the school. Without fail, every single parent who responded justified their reasons for parking on the zigzags. On that basis, you are never going to solve it.

There is a solution but it won't happen. Points on licences and a few disqualifications. Preferably lifetime driving bans, then there would be more space for those drivers who are not criminals when behind the wheel.

Zig Zags are for safety: they are meant to give clear vision each way so pedestrians, mostly children can cross safely. How would the drivers feel if their child was knocked down because some numpty parked on the lines and obscured the child's view.

Sadly a child was run over.
Solved it for a couple of years

Our very, very large head teacher with a camera. Worked a treat.

Having two ladies from the local community association, dressed in a high vis, filming every morning.

Worked a treat, but generated a lot of complaints.

Maybe they've got very very important jobs that they simply cant be late for

Unless wardens are on site, these entitled nobs don't care.

My dcs school has a car park…that’s that solved…I appreciate that can’t be the case for a lot of schools as they don’t have the space. But it should really be a requirement going forward!

We had traffic wardens outside the school at drop off and pick up times, every day for about a week, then randomly, so people don't know when they'll be there. Selfish drivers make me angry at the best of times, but particularly at schools!

Absolutely no pain for many, just lovely safe non fumy streets

Yes we involved the local police officer/ community support they came down every few days and it scared the selfish idiots off.
we had people parking opposite the school and waving their kids across the road without even getting out of their car.
police were extremely supportive 😀

Parking at DSs primary is like the Wild West.

The worst bit of parking ever seen was a parent completely mounting the kerb, continuing along the footpath behind the zebra crossing, and finally parking on the pavement, with a metal fence separating her from the road.

The headteacher was at the school gate on the opposite side of the zebra crossing completely speechless.

They have traffic wardens on mopeds regularly ticketing, but when they're not there everyone is on the zig zags and double yellow lines.

The other local school has done this and apparently the statistics show that it has reduced the number of kids being driven at all - once you can't drop right outside the school (well, you never 'could' legally, but people did!) fewer people found it the most convenient option to drive. And the people who did still drive did go onto surrounding roads but spread over a few in a couple of directions, so it isn't the scrum it was when everyone wanted to be on the one road the school was on. They're almost certainly going to do the same at our school and I'm very much in favour of this.

I don't think I've ever encountered a primary school that has a car park that isn't solely for staff (and lots of the ones near me don't even have staff parking).

I think it's the LA. We are in a small London borough - we are so used to cameras for ulez already.

Our village school has two entrances (front and back). The front/main entrance got so congested virtually daily the entire road was blocked to "through" traffic with double/treble parking, parking on double yellows and zig-zags, etc. They "solved" that particular problem by locking the main gates at start/finish times so kids couldn't go in/come out that way!

Trouble is that it's doubled the traffic on the back gates so now that area is congested and blocked twice a day!

Parents are probably the worst kind of drivers around school start/finish times. Our village is 20mph throughout, but parents (especially those in huge SUVs) come through at stupidly high speeds if they're late to pick up or get delayed at drop off and are rushing to work (or to have their eyebrows done!).

I really think that our entire village needs to be blocked between 8-30 and 9-00 and again between 3-15 and 3-45 - have traffic wardens/police on the main in/out roads stopping ALL traffic and forcing parents to park elsewhere and walk. We have loads of more suitable off street parking on all roads in/out of the village just 5-10 minutes walk away.

Our school has the janny put big cones out all down the road every day and the cones with child shaped outlines on. It's time well spent as after a year I don't think they have to put the cones out now, might to start again for new term. A new batch of parents to be trained!