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Inconsiderate parking

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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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TravelinColour · 16/10/2014 20:51

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Comito · 16/10/2014 21:50

Just as a side note to this based on some previous posts. You can't just ask the council to paint lines on the road or register a 'designated dropped kerb' as Travelin says. The latter isn't even a thing unless you pay for the kerb to be dropped. Even then, the council won't give them a ticket. We have a dropped kerb which people park on all the time and no-one ever gets a ticket. You also cannot get a car towed which is blocking your driveway. See:

www.askthe.police.uk/content/Q440.htm and note:

Policy may vary from force to force and council to council; some may only attend if your car is blocked in and you cannot get out.

The key words being 'some' and 'may'. Neither the police nor the council will do anything or be interested. Your only option is to keep asking your neighbours not to do it. Tedious? Yes. Irritating? Yes. Unfortunately, that's about all you can do and vandalism is a big no-no.

2cats2many · 17/10/2014 22:12

This is what it says where I live www.ealing.gov.uk/info/200332/parking/1375/dropped_kerb_enforcement

Comito · 18/10/2014 17:36

2cats My bad, I misunderstood and assumed the previous poster suggested registering a dropped kerb without actually having one. I'm genuinely surprised that councils enforce it though. I've never once seen it enforced in my area.

TravelinColour · 19/10/2014 21:28

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Crowen85 · 20/10/2014 13:58

Put a sign up, or some kind of barricades, pain to have to move everytime you leave/arrive but be worth it to keep inconsiderate morons of your drive.

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