To start a parking thread?

[MummyPig24]

Why do people keep parking in front of my driveway? I don't drive so dp has the car at work during the day. Maybe people assume we are out and they can park in front of the driveway. It is a single car driveway with a dropped curb. There is an enormous lorry parked there right now. I am waiting on the shopping being delivered and if they turn up now they can't get on to the driveway. Often I have visitors and I don't think it's unreasonable to want them to be able to park on the driveway. Why do people think it is ok to block it?! People do this when our car is in the drive too. Surely they are being inconsiderate?!

I think if it is a dropped kerb, you can get the council to paint a line on the road indicating no parking?

Why not go out and ask nicely for him to move?

just put a sign up. lots of people around here do that.

wonders if u live in my street because they do that here as well - or park across the other side of the road, straight across the drive and u cant get the car on

i would ask them to move

There was no one in lorry and couldn't see where they were. They left about 5 minutes after I posted. Still, why would they just park there and bugger off?

People do it to my drive, but only temporarily. They move if they see I'm trying to get in/ out (though I don't know why they don't just pick a non-lowered kerb part of the street....)

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They can actually be fined for doing that but people seem to think it's ok to risk it if "they'll only be a minute" - odd because the people who tend to do this sort of thing would usually go loopy if someone were to restrict their access to their driveway!!

I rang the police about the same situation. They are only interested if the vehicle is preventing your car from leaving your driveway. So unfortunately as that is not your case they won't help you. As long as there is no car in the driveway it isn't an offence, apparently even if it means your DP couldn't get the car onto your drive when he got home.

Is it ok to take issue with those who think a dropped kerb reserves that bit of road for them for all eternity? Sometimes, it is bloody impossible to find anywhere to park to deliver or collect meals on wheels or patients for hospital visits because the whole frickin road is full of dropped bloody kerbs. Just try and live with your fellow human, will you, and stop staring out of the window looking for the next fight to have. Thanks.