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.

Honestly if that’s the way you think then you crack on. But when I fetch my eldest from school I’d absolutely rather park far away then ever block anybody’s drive. If I ever did happen to have that thought and blocked a drive for a couple of minutes I would DIE if the owner came out and had words with me. But I’m a good person who wouldn’t ever dream of doing it so I never have to worry about that.

Keep on and on at the school and they will inform the LA who will send the police out and traffic wardens. My kids school send polite announcements on the app and after 3/4 of the same complaint they pass it on. I mean everyone can see the police and traffic wardens and it doesn't happen a lot so most people are back to normal the next day parking where they want 🙄

Do your sons extra needs mean he gets mobility or a blue badge can you have a permit put there.
It really drives you mad doesn't it 😫

I ageee with telling the school and sending photos on the link posted by InMySpareTime on page 1

Buy a cheap lipstick
Write on the windows
It's a bugger to get off

I reckon you'll be the only one who thinks the OP is being unreasonable!

This is a ridiculous line of reasoning. Houses in areas with high crime rates also tend to have lower prices and rents. Does that mean that people who can only afford to live in those areas should just quietly accept it if someone burgles or mugs them or gives them a beating, as they've already received their "compensation" windfall?

stop parking over OPs drive.

Drop some nails in the road, after the third or fourth flat tyre she’ll stop.

We have the same issue.
It's so bloody rude.
We bought a cone from Amazon.

Exactly, what a bell that poster is. Either trolling or happily parking over people's drives to be able to take little Jimmy two streets along to school in their range rover.

I think this thread has demonstrated that this isn't one inconsiderate person it is what happens all across the country, every day in numerous scenarios and there isn't really a remedy to it at all and unfortunately yes it will continue to happen. If this is something that really really bothers you then don't buy/rent in drop off/pick up areas if at all possible!

I bought a pack of parking violation windscreen stickers from Amazon. They are designed to be especially difficult to remove to prevent a repeat performance. School mum's don't block my driveway again once they've been stickered.

I don't know where you live that houses are cheaper near a school.
It's totally the opposite where I am.
Yes, you know there will be traffic twice a day, and kids and maybe parents walking by. But it does not mean that your driveway is fair game to be blocked when you need to use it and that you should just suck this up.
Is that what you are thinking if you park near a school/hospital/whatever? That the people who live there deserve this?

Thankfully, your view is very much the minority here.

How about some traffic cones? They may put people, well her, off. They look official. What you really need is a spare person to stand in your drive way, wait until someone (her) attempts to park up and then leap out and say, madam, you are not able to park here in an officious and slightly scarey voice.

I would take pictures of her car and reg plate, and her, every single time and post them on the local social media pages and the school's own social media page complaining about her since she's ignored you up until now. I'd also note you have a special needs child with a lot of appointments and she's making your life very difficult every day with her behaviour.

Every. Single. Time.

Put it on the local police social media page, too, asking for help with this behaviour.

For God’s sake. I just can’t believe people suggest things like this. So low-life.

You're not being given stick for the reasons you think. What's obvious is that your attitude of mind and amusement, is part of the overall problem, and you think your little bit of paper certificate justifies it. None of it's 'human nature' it's simply entitled behaviour.

It's not the hot take you think it is to point out blindingly obvious factors like property near to schools, pubs, churches or whatever, might, possibly, be less desirable because of parking and traffic management issues, but purposeful anti social behaviour isn't a given and Red Book values are only a guide, it's the people who offer and accept who set the real life prices of property.

Not all of us think it's normal to go through life as a taker, although, as this thread demonstrates you do come across the occasional wind up merchant or gold plated wanker.

@Lefmry lots of suggestions to make us all laugh, just keep calm, report to the school, put notes on the vehicle or publish on Facebook or Next Door if you feel like it, just don't do anything that would cause safety problems for the driver or cause damage. To be fair, it doesn't sound like you would do that at all, even out of severe frustration

I'd ring council and get a disabled parking spot painted on road.

Go to the school. Sick of these entitled twats.
I took my elderly disabled neighbour to a huge Tesco today and had to drive about the carpark a couple of times to find a disabled bay. Had a wheelchair to get out and crutches so we needed the extra room. I cannot believe the amount of people who abuse these spaces, without shame.
They need to be called out as the inconvenience it causes others is so unnecessary.
Laziness is not a disability!!
If the school do nowt, let her tyres down 😑

I’d put up a sign on your wall to say ‘24 hour access required for disabled child - please do not block drive’ and see if that helps. It would take a particularly awful person to park across a driveway when they know it’s blocking in a disabled child.

I too live on the school run road. I've pulled my car out if I know I need to get out at drop off/pick up time. I'd also take photos and send to the Head. Asking them to create a newsletter naming and shaming repeat offenders.

I'll only be 5 minutes....I don't give a shiny shite - move! I don't come to your house and block your driveway.

i live opposite a school and never had my driveway blocked. I think this person the OP has encountered is a special sort of cunt. Perhaps you think the same way, but it’s clear from my experience that it’s not inevitable.

Our school sends out regular emails requesting parents not to park on the street (they even made us a sign an agreement saying we wouldn't when we joined the school!) and people still ignore it. I'd definitely be informing the school though, and maybe get a sign saying not to block access as it's needed 24/7?

Good luck, it's a right pain in the bum!!

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