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Man keeps putting traffic cones on road outside school

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lottieandmia · 25/06/2013 09:18

There is a road outside my dd's school where parents have to park to do the school run. A man who lives opposite this road has started putting cones up on the raised curb opposite his house to stop people parking. These cones take up about 5 parking spaces. The situation with traffic and parking before this happened was chaos anyway and now it is even worse.

Are there any legitimate reasons why he would be allowed to do this? It seems to me he doesn't have the right to stop people parking and this has now been going on for about 3 months.

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TheCraicDealer · 25/06/2013 12:18

If people are parking legally and not blocking his drive then wtf is his problem? Unless the school is really modern, it was probably there when he moved in. DP and I are house hunting and more than once we've had a conversation about potential parking issues because of a property's proximity to a school. He if didn't think of that....tough titties, mate.

It's all well and good people saying "move the cones!", but if he's that brazen to somehow obtain and use them in an illegal manner, I bet he won't think twice about keying your car or letting the tyres down.

If you can get a bolshy mate to sit in the car for a week, preferably under a car blanket in the back seat, ready to pounce when Bernard comes out all guns blazing then go for it.

CelticPromise · 25/06/2013 12:31

YANBU. Move the cones.

fluffyraggies · 25/06/2013 12:39

.... and then come back and tell us about it

Blatherskite · 25/06/2013 13:08

I'd ring the non emergency Police number and advise them that this gentlemen is causing an obstruction on a busy road twice a day every day.

He might get annoyed and confrontational with parents moving his cones but he's hardly likely to argue with a police officer who could happily fine him for blocking the public highway.

A proper scare might stop him doing this faster than months of passive aggressively shifting his cones.

DS's school used up a chunk of the school field to create a car par especially for parents and some of the twats still parked down both sides of the road meaning that traffic between them could be no more than single file! The school reported it to the council and now one side of the road has double yellow lines. If this man has genuine concerns as to the parking problems near his house then he needs to contact his council and get it sorted out properly, not go putting out cones to solve the problem himself.

TalkativeJim · 25/06/2013 13:08

Next time I'd collect up all the cones, pop them in the boot, park down the road, drop the DC into school, then take the clearly abandoned cones to the police station.

Rinse and repeat!

Tanith · 25/06/2013 13:19

I don't feel a bit sorry for someone who continually blocks off space for 5 cars (according to OP). That is totally unreasonable, entitled and anti-social.

flowery · 25/06/2013 13:26

Some people just need a project to get riled up about and feel a martyr to like this. If he didn't live near a school and find the number of cars at pick up and drop off time irritating, he'd find something else to get worked up about. I know people like this.

lottieandmia · 27/06/2013 17:02

Update - this morning the man had extended even more cones up the road so that they were now taking up about one third of the whole road!

I telephoned the council and they said it isn't a council road and that it is therefore a police matter and to call them. So I called the police who said they would sort it. And at pick up time the cones were gone! And there was not the chaos with cars that there has been. So thanks for all your advice and hopefully he won't go back to doing it again...!

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Cravey · 27/06/2013 17:18

If he has a large drive I would imagine there is in fact a dropped kerb there. Lazy bloody parents causing trouble for residents who live by a school. Yet again.

UnexpectedItemInShaggingArea · 27/06/2013 18:42

Cravey RTFT

SauvignonBlanche · 27/06/2013 18:51

Result!
Well done OP.

MerryOnMerlot · 27/06/2013 18:52

What Cravey said.

BegoniaBampot · 27/06/2013 18:58

We had a case recently when an ambulance was called to a street outside a primary school for a pensioner having a heart attack. The daughter asked one parent to move their car from outside her house to make room for the ambulance but the parent refused. The ambulance had to park in the road to attend. Other parents tooted and one knocked on the door to tell them to move. The pensioner dried later that day. At out school drivers park fully on the pavement on a busy road totally blocking it for buggies and have seen drivers block in residents. folk can just be so inconsiderate.

choccyp1g · 27/06/2013 19:01

lottieandmiaThu 27-Jun-13 17:02:33
...I telephoned the council and they said it isn't a council road .....
if it isn't a council road, then whose road is it? Maybe he genuinely believes he owns the road.

However, I'm impressed the police had a word so quickly.. or maybe he read this thread.

UnexpectedItemInShaggingArea · 27/06/2013 19:19

Yes there are inconsiderate parkers in the world, but the OP isn't one of them if you RTFT. The guy was breaking the law. The police stopped him. End of story. Well done OP.

Cravey · 27/06/2013 19:30

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UnexpectedItemInShaggingArea · 27/06/2013 19:45

That's fine cravey, in that case just continue to make sweeping statements based on your own perceptions rather than the information in the thread.

Cravey · 27/06/2013 19:49

Ok will do. Thanks for the permission. Not that I needed it.

mylovelymonster · 27/06/2013 19:54

Maybe he's on the Parish Council or involved with the school and the cones are to leave space for the school bus to park, a little later than the parent rush? Just a thought.

mylovelymonster · 27/06/2013 19:55

Ah just saw your update. Perhaps he's just a bit of a grumpy old duffer with too much time on his hands.

rosepettel · 27/06/2013 20:10

:( tell the lolly pop lady

CPtart · 27/06/2013 20:57

You have no legal right to the parking space on a public road outside your house.
Shift them.

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lottieandmia · 27/06/2013 22:23

Why would anyone not believe me I'm not well known for trolling (I hope!) Very odd............and he puts the cones on the other side of the road from his house - there is no dropped curb.

As I said, the school repeatedly puts out letters asking us all to park on the side of the road which has the senior school on, which is where he was putting the damned cones!

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lottieandmia · 27/06/2013 22:26

Btw the council gave a possible list of places the road could belong to - it may actually belong to the school (independent school which was founded about 80 years ago).

But the council and the police were clear that what he's doing is not on.

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Alisvolatpropiis · 28/06/2013 17:09

I'd get out of my car,move the comes and park there. I have done in the past.

Unless it's residents only parking it's a public highway and there is nothing he can do to stop people parking outside his house.

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