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Inconsiderate parking

31 replies

Greenrug85 · 10/10/2014 11:39

I live on a busy road, my house has a driveway with a dropped kerb.

A couple of people regularly visiting a house a few doors away keep parking so their cars hang slightly across so I can't get in or out of the drive way. There is adequate room for a car to fit through but garden fences limit space to manoeuvre around parked cars,

I have asked them politely to leave the drove way entry clear, I have even pointed out that there is plenty of space alongside my garden fence which they are welcome to use, but just asked that they don't block my driveway.

They continue to do it, when there is more than enough room to park further back so they don't obstruct the driveway, so I can only assume they do it on purpose? Surely nobody is that thick to keep doing it over and over again once it had been pointed out? I was absolutely polite and not Confrontational so I cannot understand it!

I have recently had to park quite a distance up the road on a couple of occasions, and had to lug bagfuls of shopping to and from the car, as well as my sleeping baby in an incredibly heavy car seat. While it was pouring with rain and soaked us both right through.

It's also frustrating when I arrive home and indicate to turn off the road into the driveway, to find there isn't enough room to turn in, then have to reverse back into busy traffic, and end up getting grief from drivers thinking I am just pissing about!

I don't want to cause bad feeling or arguments, but it is my driveway and I don't see why they should keep making day to day life difficult for no reason!

What would you do?

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Stealthpolarbear · 10/10/2014 11:41

Ooh a parking thread!
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jerryfudd · 10/10/2014 11:44

Time to break out the "you park like a cunt" stickers surely?

SavoyCabbage · 10/10/2014 11:44

Buy a bike from eBay and ride it full pelt down your drive and into their car?

I don't know. You've asked them and they haven't stopped. I'm flummoxed.

Greenrug85 · 10/10/2014 11:46

I am also flummoxed! Love the sticker idea!

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MehsMum · 10/10/2014 11:48

Do you know the person in the house they visit? Could you perhaps approach them and ask them to mention it to their guests?

Greenrug85 · 10/10/2014 11:50

I don't know them really, say hello on occasions but they come across a little bit grumpy! Worth a try though!Smile

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sparrowno1 · 10/10/2014 11:53

Ask the police to tow them when they are blocking you from getting onto your drive.

Greenrug85 · 10/10/2014 11:56

Would police help with these sorts of things? Ive never been sure to be honest! I would feel so bad mithering the police over a parked car :/

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sparrowno1 · 10/10/2014 12:01

My friend dinged her car because someone was parking slightly over her drive. She was furious and phoned the police - they said they would come and tow the other car. The owner moved it though.

SavoyCabbage · 10/10/2014 12:02

When we had enormous problems with our neighbours, the police told us that it is not illegal to block a drive.

Comito · 10/10/2014 12:06

I doubt the police will help.

I can't think of much else you can do apart from just keep asking them or maybe putting a note on their windscreen.

One of my neighbours has a visitor who does the same thing to us. It's annoying because he knows he's doing it (has apologised a couple of times) but I think he's a bit scatty and just doesn't think properly. Plus we don't use our cars all that often so I think he thinks it's not as much of a problem.

Lasttimebaby · 10/10/2014 12:10

Park in front of it so they have no room to manoeuvre if you can therybe blocking them in .

Lasttimebaby · 10/10/2014 12:11

Or stay there honking your horn until they come out and move

OwlCapone · 10/10/2014 12:12

Stick an A4 note to their windscreen with vaseline.

jerryfudd · 10/10/2014 12:18

If you've asked nicely and they continue to do it then yes they are doing it deliberately and there's not much you can do. Do they visit at specific times? Can you leave your car off your drive and park where they do before they arrive so they have to park a distance away? Done a couple of times they might get the message and maybe move that foot extra back?

I have/had a neighbour a few doors away that is too lazy to drive into his drive sometimes so, as our road is too busy to park on, decides to park on the grass verge outside my house, usually when it's wet so churns all the grass up, so I called the council and reported him for the damage and they happily said they would send him a notice telling him to stop and/or send a parking officee out to himGrin I have no idea whether they did but he has started using his own 3 car drive for his one car GrinWink

SweetsForMySweet · 10/10/2014 12:22

Get a yellow box painted on pavement and a 'no parking day or night' or 'do not block entrance' sign installed by the council. A family member had a similar problem and let the air out of offenders tyres a couple of times (it worked very effectively and they didn't do it again) make sure there's no witnesses if you do it

FelixTitling · 10/10/2014 12:24

We have this, and one neighbour has visitors who just park their car in the middle of the road (culdesac), and leave it their for hours!

We get on very well with our neighbours, they are lovely, but this still happens all the time and I haven't got a clue what to do.

Sometimes I do it back, but it seems a bit petty and I end up moving my car after 10 mins.

Maybe we should get bull bars fitted and just push them out of the way.

TravelinColour · 10/10/2014 12:28

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twizzleship · 15/10/2014 21:31

get it towed whenever they block you in

PigletJohn · 15/10/2014 22:00

Park your car outside your neighbour's house. Go out for the day.

Lucked · 15/10/2014 22:09

Pull onto your neighbours drive next time they do it, go to the door and say you will wait while they move it. Repeat if necessary. Approaching them when they leave isn't an inconvenience but disturbing their visit (repeatedly if necessary) will.

2cats2many · 15/10/2014 22:14

Register your drive as a dropped kerb with the council. If people park across it you can call the council's parking enforcement will give them a ticket.

TravelinColour · 15/10/2014 22:25

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Thistledew · 15/10/2014 22:27

Draw them a pretty picture on their windscreen in shaving foam?

2cats2many · 16/10/2014 19:08

What do you mean travelincolour? It is where I live.

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