Has this person blocked me in? Photo - no diagram

[madeittheway]

I’m the white car, parked on my driveway.

No idea who the van belongs to - it’s not a delivery driver as it’s been there an hour. They are parked over the dropped section, just hard to see with the leaves.

I'd say you are only blocked in if you cant get out, but it is annoying. Another vote for reversing in in future, much easier (and safer) to get out.

Not always an option. We have a shared drive and have to park close to the house on the passenger side. If I reversed in I wouldn't be able to get out of the car.

Stick a note on windscreen. You’ve parked over my dropped kerb = illegal parking. Your van registration has been sent to local police.

If @madeittheway needs to go out, then she should go and lean on the horn until someone takes notice.

a note won’t help

if she doesn’t need to get out, then it’s all good.

most people don’t block others in. But if this happens again then you can apply to council to get H line put in

@MzHz

if this happens again then you can apply to council to get H line put in

The drop is on the neighbours side, I think they would have to apply

Phone the council and, if your LA is like ours, a traffic warden will be out within half an hour to ticket them.I think that in residential streets they have mobile traffic wardens who respond quickly to cars parked illegally

There really is no point clearing the leaves. The whole street did a clean up this weekend and it’s just a vicious cycle.

it is clear to the person, they can physically see where a kerb drops.

What do you mean the drop is on the neighbours side? It’s across the entire double driveway.

What’s to the other side-can you pull round that way?

Easier said than done. Usually an entire row of cars on the other side and it’s very tight.

It’s a very old street and not built at all to allow rows of parked cars on either side, and traffic from both directions - on an intersection of two main roads 🙈

Ndn grandad does this to me every single Sunday! It leaves their own driveway free of course! Tbh I just eyeroll and go around, slightly painful but there you go.

Unless the neighbours car is right up next to yours, it does look like you can get off with a bit of shifting about - not ideal though.

Well yes they have, but I could get my car out of there with a bit of wiggling.

What an inconsiderate git.

This is one of the reasons why it’s always, always better to reverse into your drive. I never forward park on my drive.

Are you hanging out over the pavement?

@madeittheway

What do you mean the drop is on the neighbours side? It’s across the entire double driveway.

Sorry the picture is not clear, it does look like the dropped kerb ends just by the van wheel.

Can we have a better picture of the cars and bin on either side and the road pls

My first thought was move your bins if you need to go out to give you more wriggle room. A van not delivering may be a tradesperson doing a job for a neighbour so maybe knock on a few likely doors? Vans and bigger cars do take a bigger space and it may have been the only viable option for them .it's only just over a not very obvious dropped kerb that has leaves disguising it so it's a bit inconsiderate of them and inconvenient to you as a one off

I’d go around and find who it belongs to and ask them to move. Had to do this recently carrying a sleeping toddler as I couldn’t get into my lane. Annoying but the other driver sorted quickly and apologetically.

THis is how my neighbour constantly parks at our drive. Sometimes I just manoeuvre my car backward and forwards other times I chap his door and tell him to move his van forward as he’s making it difficult for us to get on and off drive.

he always moves it, then watches how he parks for a week or two then it’s back to his same shit again and again.

if the dropped kerb is legal, the council might paint a white unbroken line in front of it which will discourage parking.

If you phone 101 with the registration, make, model and colour of the van the Police will attempt to contact the owner. If they are not able to get a response they will send someone to ticket the van. (Had this when a blue badge holder thought it was a good idea to park on double yellow lines in front of gates which had a do not park sign - supplied by council as the gates needed to be clear for emergency access! They claimed their badge let's them park on double yellows but the police disagreed as they were causing an obstruction!)