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.

Not unless she’ll be out in the car at this point to collect her child from school.

I guess we all know where you park then.

Maybe superglue. The individual is defiant & ruthless

Ha! I suggested that and got flamed cos she parks on the road. But at least we are throwing in some ideas!

Our PCSO came out when I complained about parents blocking the pavement with cars

Leave your car half out, half in just as she arrives! If you can’t commit to that until she finds somewhere else, then take a photo of her car and shame her on local Facebook group?!

Ignore all the absolutely moronic suggestions on here.

I’d attempt to speak to her first. If that’s not possible leave her a polite note explaining your child’s needs, no reasonable person would continue to park like this if it’s explained to her the impact it has.

If this doesn’t work, email photographs of the car including the reg, to the school.

Wtaf?!?!? Op please don’t listen to this person. They are clearly unhinged

The school can work with the police to stop this happening. You'll need to contact the school and ask them to involve the police to help since previous attempts have not worked. Sometimes just the school announcing that they will start working with the police to manage cars will be enough to stop them parking there. Good luck.

Not any help I'm afraid but this might cheer us all up: I was once parking at my son's school and noticed another parent had just parked in one of those disabled spaces specifically belonging to the owner of the house it was outside. I pointed out - nicely - that he couldn't park there as it was a disabled space, but he made it clear he couldn't care less. When I got back to my own car after collecting my son, I spotted a yellow parking ticket envelope under my windscreen wiper and was immediately confused as I knew I had a permit for that parking zone. Inside the little envelope was just a folded piece of blank paper - not a parking ticket, it turned out, but one had obviously just been issued to a**ehole dad, who was clearly a bit cross with me (karma's a bitch, eh?)

I’d have ignored such a comment as that one, tbh. It’s just not worth your taps on your phone.

😂this is amusing me now. I am unhinged for stating facts. If you want to live in Area X and you see two houses/flats whatever and one is located in a pick up/drop off zone for a school, the other a few roads back and you think wow what a bargain it's 10% cheaper, you have to accept that it is cheaper for a reason and that most likely is pain in the arse of people parking across your access twice a day!

Install a light gate?

Did he actually think that by putting it on your car it would become your responsibility, I wonder? Bizarre.

No, I think he just wanted to give me a momentary scare when I saw the yellow envelope - which he did, to be fair. (He'd obviously taken the ticket away with him.) However, what he also did was let me know that he'd been duly punished for being a twat, which frankly made my afternoon!

@Curiouscatkin ah of course! Sorry that makes more sense. Very glad that he got what he deserved.

Give her one last chance by telling her how important it is .

Then Shame her across Facebook with a post about inconsiderate drivers and your disabled child.
Have a picture of her doing it and add the comment that you’ve asked her not to block your drive due to a disabled child.

Our school does something similar, they include the reg plate in the email they send to all parents about inconsiderate parking. Our school are quite firm with parents disrupting locals and we don’t often have many issues, but on the occasions we have, the school take it very seriously. Hope it’s resolved soon, OP.

I had this at a house we lived in previously. After over a year of it, I'd done all the polite post-its etc, when I was just a couple of week postpartum with baby no4, I was so done with it, so angry that I went out and poured a huge tub of yeo valley yoghurt all over the car. Obviously I'm not recommending taking such an action but the repeat, almost daily, offender never parked there again (random others still sometimes did). I don't regret it.

Time to start printing signs that say "this is not as parking space. This is a driveway with a dropped curb to enable disabled access to our property that you regularly block. Please park elsewhere or we will be reporting the matter to the police". Then I would consider being entirely petty and would sit in the car next to hers and honk the horn to draw attention to your presence and shame her into moving her car when everyone else turns to see what the issue is. Or a bit lower key I would start posting on the school or local Facebook page about the presence of the car blocking disabled access regularly until she gets the picture. Chances are though she is a CF who thinks her time is more precious than yours and repeated calls from the police are going to be the only way to get it through her head. Good luck!

This way of thinking is really shitty imo. It’s like the people who say women who get raped should expect it because they wore revealing clothing. People who get trolled online should expect it because they put their lives on social media for everybody to see. Can we not focus on the fact someone is doing something incredibly annoying and it’s wrong and unfair? And not act like it’s okay because ‘it should be expected’.

Has anyone tried anything like this or similar? If there's a way to get pictures to someone which will result in actual fines for her then going down that route would by far be the most effective option.

I'd take pictures and report it every single day.

Not as exciting as Vaseline and lipstick but much more satisfying.

It's not shitty it's human nature. No one purposefully thinks "I know I will block this drive of a mother of a disabled child as I want to make their life harder". They think "I'll only be 2 mins and there's nowhere else to park". That is why it won't change as you live close to an area where people need to park and there isn't any/enough parking.

What's obvious is op leaves her drive to pick her own child up and when she returns arsehole driver is parked there so she can't get in. Hth

I live in a social housing flat opposite a school How much choice do you think i had.

I live opposite a school and they park in the car parks here which is housing association property. They were park here at 2.20pm Kids dont get out until 3.15pm I had one swear at me when i was being picked up in a car by a friend. My reply was "i bloody live here" Our HA did bring in parking tickets back in 2009 but the bloody wardens would ticket the cars belonging to tenants as well. Despite the fact we had parking permits in the windows next to the tax disc. We got one (DH no longer drives) and it took four months to get the money back Ive lived here since 1994 when more parents walked their kids to school.