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.

She is doing this deliberately now and it could actually be classed as a hate crime as she is knowly causing distress to you dispite knowing about your son’s disability as so through you causing issues for your son.

anyone who says this isn’t right I used to work on a hate crime project for a charity so I know what I am talking about. Ring the police and ask to speak to their diversity officer. Say you feel you are being victimised as she is clearly doing this on purpose now. And the face that she swore at you and was nasty you feel vulnerable. Police will have to do something then.

Oh when you ring the police make sure you say the words disability hate crime.

Also if you don’t want to contact the police directly google hate crime third party reporting centres in your area. They are places that will support you to report it, quite a few are charities as all of them will have links to the police and other agencies.
if this has happen when I worked for a third party reporting centre basically we would have taken the report, contact the school and police on your behalf. The police would then contact you or they would contact the school. A community police officer would then be sent out to give her an almighty bollocking. They would mention what she is doing is moving into hate crime and harassment territory. Hopefully enough to put the shits up her.
9 out of 10 cases we dealt with like this were people were harassing someone this was enough to make them back off.

Photograph car and contact local council parking department. They should either issue fine based on photo or send wardens out to issue tickets on another day.

Just popping on to say thank you again everybody for the lovely comments. Like I’ve said before I was really worried I’d be met with lots of ‘Well what did you expect living by a school?’ comments, so I’m always hesitate to ask for advice. It’s been two days and she hasn’t done it since. The day it happened I did actually see her parking further up the road when she picked her children up. Funny that isn’t it? She was so certain and sure what she was doing was okay, why not continue? I really hope she went home and actually educated herself by googling it and seeing that it is NOT OKAY to be doing to me and my family what she’s been doing for the last 5 months.

That works if you are coming in, but not if you want to get out. It's a good thing to do though, I get annoyed when people block side roads when they are in queues and I do exactly that to make them shove up a bit!

OP can you contact your local parking enforcement team and ask them to give out a few tickets?

But also, my immediate thought was that I would park my own car there instead.

Wasn't there a thread on here some months/years ago where the neighbours came along and blocked the person in?

Edited: glad you have had a couple of days reprieve OP. And yes, you are allowed to live near a school and complain. We know there will be school traffic, but some parents are getting lazier and ever more stupid.

I also noticed that a pp suggested putting double yellow lines in the street. All that happens where I live is that they park on the grass verge instead.

I hope you get it sorted, when we were looking to buy a house I discounted a gorgeous house because it had a primary school at the end of the road as I didn’t want parking issues.

Why would you risk staining your drive with oil, or damaging it in other ways to deter these ignorant, cheeky so and so’s?
I bet all these of the “so what” mentality on here would be right Victorian Meldrews if it happened to them!

Definitely do the first option. I lived opposite a school and came home to find someone blocking my drive again. Saw the lady coming back to car so I sat in the road indicating and waited for her to move. Gridlock on the entire street. The school head came out to have a word with her. No one was happy with her as they were all late home. After that I never had anyone block my drive again!

If school don't listen because they can only do so much like ask them to stop but if they ain't going to listen to you. The occupier of the drive I very much doubt they will listen to school. You really don't need a explanation it's your drive you paid for it. But if school don't listen report to the local 101 or the school governors. Like you said your child has additional needs if a emergency occurs you need access to get in and out 24/7. Teach her a lesson park your car as closest to hers as you can get a neighbour to do the same she will probably be abit wiser next time 🙂 contact the local council also they seem to be looking for a excuse to fine anyone for just about anything now days. If your child is under the local SEN then it will also flag up on their end. Get a SEN worker to write a official looking letter and show her. Wost comes to worse you can always put dog muck up the handles 😂