Realistically can anything be done to stop parents parking across driveway?

[Lefmry]

I live on the same street as a school. Every single day someone blocks our driveway and I’m at a point now where I’m getting super fed up of it! 😩 It is mostly the same woman, who on multiple occasions has been asked to stop but it’s like it falls on deaf ears and she feels entitled somehow to still park there.

I wouldn’t actually mind but my eldest has severe additional needs and will NOT walk any distance from the car to the house so it’s super important we are parked on the drive, which isn’t possible when she (or someone else) has swanned off to stand at the school gates to wait for her child. I mean, not like I need an excuse really, it’s my drive and I should be able to use it. The time the drive is blocked is ALWAYS when I’m getting back from picking up my son from school.

Realistically if I were to go in to the school with number plates, especially this one woman, is there anything they can do? Or anything anybody else can do? Sorry I know there’s worse problems to have but I’ve just had a baby 4 weeks a go, have a 20 month old, along with my eldest with ASD, I am trying my damn hardest every day and sick of arseholes making life even harder.

Speaking to the school sounds like a good idea. How inconsiderate and annoying of her! Take a photo of her and the car to allow the school to identify her if needed!

Take the photo openly and explain why you're taking it.

I don't think schools tell individuals not to park across people's driveways, IME they just send texts to all parents. So not sure the actual school will do much but hopefully they will contact PCSO and they will tell people to move if not parked correctly.
Also look in to getting an access required at all times sign. And I agree in the meantime stick notes on her car
I would have no issues with you taking a photo of the car or driver but don't include her child in it. It just doesn't seem right and it's not their fault their parent is an asshole.

Tip a tin of vegetable soup over her windscreen.

Get your local printers to make you some sticky labels saying some thing like ' i am an entitled bitch and regularly park inconsiderately.' Check that the adhesive is difficult to remove but not so permanent that you can be accused of damaging her car It should need scraping off in small bits. Stick them to the windows not the paint and avoid the area in front of the driver so you don't cause an accident. If you feel politer you could just make them say 'Please do not park here' and escalate to 'entitled bitch' if she continues. Put more and more stickers on each time. She should soon get fed up with scaping off stickers and park elsewhere

My dsis had this all the time in her previous home-they atually bloked her in-oh i was only five minutes was the usual exuse

she lost her temper quite a few times

Can you put a load of cones across the end of your drive or is that too much of a nuisance?

@Bobbingtons that is delightfully evil. “Weapons grade herring” 😝

I used to live right beside a primary school and moved for this exact reason. My children didn't go to the next door school so when I returned it was inevitable that you would find a parent parked over the drive. I would've sat beside them with the indicator on until they realised and moved off. It wasn't the same person each day otherwise I would've reported it to the school.

The hanging of signs outside your home is not legally enforceable if someone parks across them, it is illegal to obstruct access to your property. But...police would need to be in attendance and have a complainant onsite. So I believe this law would penalise those who park their vehicle over a driveway for hours on end as opposed to 10-15 minutes.

But it pissed me off anyway so had to move.

You're an imbecile. I suppose you're the type of scrag that would do the sort of thing that OP is posting about. "Well, I need to pick up MY children, and that's FAR more important than YOU wanting to use your own driveway!" Or are you the waddle and vape type who continually shouts instead of talking. Because we ALL need to hear what the like of you have to say.

Ugh.

I once pushed down on my car horn continously, while looking blankly over the roof of the car in front of me which had:

a) Stopped in the middle of the road outside of the school gate
b) Remained there while 3 children laboriously got out of the back seat, through the same door, and on the opposite side of the road to the school entrance
c) Initiated a conversation with a member of staff
d) thrown me a filthy look look when I had the audacity to ever so lightly tap my horn to draw their attention to the fact that they were blocking the road and other people had places to go
And e) continued the chat with the staff member

Everyone stared, and the driver finally moved off because I guess the conversation was being drowned out, and maybe they didn't like being in the middle of a scene.

Might I recommend something similar?

My children's old school always wrote in the newsletter. They also had a caretaker and the head at start and finish times of school. They would talk to parents if they parked in the bus bay, in front of houses etc.

I would definitely leave a note on her windscreen mentioning you need access, speak to school and see what happens.

I know how frustrating it is to be blocked my neighbour seems to think his residential property is a business. Constantly parking work vans over my drive. Very annoying. Luckily my children are bigger now so it's easier but it's a mighty pain when I get home with shopping and can't get on my drive.

What a load of absolute fucking bollocks you horrible chancer.

Photograph the car and send to the local community police, preferably photograph on different days and send in to them, they have gone to the person for me and it stopped

I've seen a car wrapped in cling film. When I was picking up DD I saw some final year students do it to another student's car. It took the car's owner less than 60 seconds to take it off.

When I said clingfilm it was some thing stronger but it said it took him ages to remove it.

The OP collects her own child at that time so probably gets home after the moron has already parked up.

NHS 😁

That's what I had to do in the end. Not illegal to do so, because the dropped kerb is specifically for the driveway rather than for disabled access in my case. (There is a dropped kerb for disabled access and prams two doors away from me.)

Had someone block my driveway for 2 1/2 hours, I was furious as couldn't make an appointment. When she got back I'd put around 50 exceptionally sticky labels on her car, will say they're a nightmare to get off tables and floors, with added bonus of some rather unflattering comments!

Call your local authority. Explain the situ.

The council can put double yellow lines that apply during school drop off and pick up esp given your son has a disability. It'd then be an offence to park there and if they coordinate it with a parking enforcement officer, she'd get a ticket.

Some people are AHs but then schools with no parking are a mare too esp if you work and drop off and pick up the kids around work.

I’d involve the local press!

I'm also intrigued as to how being RICS red book qualified has anything to do with inconsiderate parking 🤔

Being close to a school can increase the house price rather than decrease it, especially if the school is oversubscribed and people want to have the best chance of getting a place there by living well within the catchment area.

Take photos and video of how the car is parked and her child/children returning to the vehicle to send to the school. With a photo of the child they will be able to identify the parent straight away.

Exactly BECAUSE people behave in a shitty way thats why we have to have rules like "don't park in front of someones access to their driveway". Its not hard.

I would bet a lot of money this twat who repeatedly behaves in an anti-social way towards others is the first to complain when someone inconviences them.

OP the fastest solution is some cones on the road so she has to get out of her car and move before she parks. If she is still insistent on being a prick escalate to the PSCO and inform the school that is the action you have taken.