Would you pop a letter/note on this car?

[WinterBones]

There is a staff member of the nearby school that is making it a regular thing to park in 'my space' outside my house and leave their car there all day.

I know they are perfectly legally allowed to park there, the issue is I'm disabled (blue badge and everything) and i park by my gate because in the morning i really struggle to walk, so when she is parked there when i get back from dropping DD off at her school, i have to park down the street and limp/hobble back to my house.

I'm thinking of popping a polite note on her car asking if she'd mind leaving that space free due to my disability, and just parking down the street a little further.

Would you feel put out if someone put a note on your car for something like this?

Bad idea.

If this person doesn't park there, I expect someone else will.

Have you thought of contacting the council and asking if they'll turn it into a disabled parking bay?

Where I live there are one or two people who have a disabled bay outside their house because of their needs. Could you apply to your local council to install one for you?

I’m afraid she’s perfectly within her rights to ignore any note you put on her car, and even if she didn’t what’s to stop someone else parking there?

No, you've got no right to that space.
Get the council to paint a disabled space there instead, then you have.

Why not contact the head teacher as he could then make sure theteacher doesn't do this in future?

You can't do that. But you can ask the council to make it a disabled bay, it could cause problems if you want to sell later though.

Maybe they are disabled too and feel they need to park close to their place of work. No easy answer unfortunately!

If its close to the school chances are if they don't park there someone else will and your back to square one. Contacting the council for a disabled bay seems a better option

Of course you can pop a note on their car - they just might not listen to it. But always worth a shot if you’re super polite and say, I know this an unusual request but just wondering if there’s any chance you see another slot open if you could go for that one as it really helps me to be able to park straight outside my house. You just need to have low expectations! They’ll prob just ignore it but if you’re really polite & they’re a nice person it might work out fine.

Nope. You have no legal right to park there. Tbh a note like that would make you want to do it more haha

As PP say, ask the council to make it a disabled bay.

Don’t do that, unless you get a disabled space approved by the council they have as much right as you do to park there. Even if you get a disabled space painted there, anyone with a blue badge can use it. It won’t be for your personal use.
is there any space to have a drive installed? That would solve your issue.

As you are aware it is not ' your ' space, and if it's not this person parking there then it will be someone else.

You can try asking the Council for a disabled space as advised by others, or can you turn your frontage into a driveway ?

If your street is so busy that you have to park far away if that specific space is taken, surely somebody else would just park in it if the staff member didn’t?

@WinterBones How annoying. I'd be the same. Can you get your daughter dropped off with someone else? Then, by the time she wishes to park, your car will still be there. However, are you sure its a teacher? They are normally in by 7.45?

See I don't understand this mindset when it comes to things like this, I park for work on residential streets and being asked not to park somewhere specific because it was causing someone else an issue wouldn't make me think I'll now do it on purpose, just so I know I've caused someone else an issue, and got one over on them, especially when there's other alternatives (because the OP can park further away). I don't understand what that achieves. Especially when it's done politely.

But I'm probably in the minority I suppose.

And someone else would likely park there anyway, with the same mindset so I guess your options are ask and as it's a public road prepare for it to still happen or be done on purpose to piss you off, ask for a disabled bay but also be prepared for that to be ignored/other disabled drivers to park there, or try and create a drive on your property - but then I guess if it's not sanctioned by the council and a dropped curb installed, you'll face being blocked in.

It’s not your space though is it, it’s just a bit of road outside your house

You know you're being unreasonable, but you would be perfectly within your rights to get the Council to put a disabled space outside your house.