To think that if you only have a 1 car driveway you only get to park 1 car?

[Soontobemama]

There are a couple of little houses on the road that I live that have driveways just big enough for 1 car. However, at least two of them have 2 cars and park them both on their drive one in front of the other. This means that the back of the second car blocks the pavement. They are essentially acting as though the dropped kerb marks the start of their driveway.

This drives me mad as to get past you have to walk into the road. I'm going to be even less impressed about having to wheel my soon to be born baby's pram into the road to get by.

YANBU, this and cars that don't fit in their drives properly. On the way to ds's school there's a house with a drive big enough for a small car, yet the woman who lives there has a bloody great jeep parked in there and the back end of it takes up 3/4 of the path so I have to go onto the busy main road with dd in her pushchair and ds. Drives me mad.

Wait until the house with only room for one car has 4 cars!!! Our street is a mare.

This is very annoying.

That said, in some cases the path is part of their land. Do you have a PCSO or similar who could be asked? And is there space to park on the road?

I'd complain to the council about it. That is very annoying.

I don't think the path is part of their land. They are just little terraced houses that were obviously built along time after the other properties on the road.

Would the council do something if I were to complain? They completely block the path not even just part if it. There is lots of parking on the street as most of the houses have driveways or are flats with private parking.

they are causing an obstruction - so you could call the police if they are doing it very often. Take a couple of photos and pop in to a station and see what they say

I think it's still classed as a public right of way despite it being "owned" by them.

We used to live near an cantankerous old man who used to shout at people "this 'ere's my pavement!"

I was going to say YABU because we do this, but actually we wouldn't if we overflowed onto the pavement.

I did have to double check you weren't talking about us though. I don't think our neighbours understand that our little row of new build terraces own the land to the kerb, including the little row of paving stones across our front garden that people use as a path. There is no right of access, we could fence it if we wanted (although would look stupid as its a tiny strip). It's the only bit of pavement/path alongside the road though. Everyone else has walls to the kerb so it's not like we're forcing anyone off the "pavement". How does the pavement they are blocking compare to the property line of other houses? Could they own it too?

I very much doubt these houses own the pavement outside their drives. The pavement has been there for years and the houses only since the 90's or early 2000's. I'm not sure the developer would have been allowed to buy the public pathway?

Oh ok, our paving was added by the developer, the street itself doesn't have pavement at all, just varying degrees of grass verges.

Aargh, this drives me mad - our miserable bastard of a neighbour does this. A driveway that can take 2 cars regularly has 5 parked on/around it, all squeezed in insanely tightly so the place resembles a car sales forecourt but they are still completely blocking the pavement.

He's a bit nuts about parking his cars near his house though, very territorial about the space outside his house, to the extent that in the 5 years we've lived here, it's never been empty as he is so paranoid about someone else parking in it that he would regularly get up at 6am to move the cars around so that one of the ones his family owned were in that space.

We hope to be moving soon so I might take some pics and have myself a little trip to the police station with them...

Is there somewhere else they coukd park?

My neighbour does this, the police won't do anything. Very frustrating, especially when I'm using the pushchair.

Lots and lots of on street parking.

Yanbu at all, tey are obstructing a public thoroughfare. Call the council or the police

Our local council say its a police issue, the police say its not illegal to block the pavement and its basically just tough luck.

All the other neighbours have complained to the police but they won't do anything.. Im pretty sure the twatty neighbour must have a friend in the police force!

The council wont do anything.

The police will.

Here, the police have issued a fixed penalty notice for obstructing the pavement. Its illegal. Complain to the police and ask to speak to someone else or contact your local councillor and explain the police wont act on your complaint.

My neighbour got a letter from the council instructing him to cut back the plants that were encroaching about a foot onto the pavement so a car would be even worse.

Got onto the local council highways department. Most of them will accept email contacts now so it's easy to do. Attach an photo showing the cars blocking the pavement.

My neighbour keeps a boat in his driveway and thinks the turning circle at the end of the cul de sac is his personal parking space.

YANBU

I was thinking about this kind of thing earlier. One of my neighbours has bought himself a massive camper van thing which doesn't fit on his drive. We live on a narrow semi-rural road with no pavements or street lighting. It's only a matter of time before some poor motorist comes round the corner in the dark and impales themselves on the bikes hanging off the back of it.

You could complain to the council that they are causing an obstruction. We have a drive big enough for one car and if someone visits they park across our drive, but in the road not on the pavement. We do sometimes get people parking across our drive blocking us in or stopping us from using our drive which is annoying.

Most of the cars on our street are parked on the pavement - I can't get past 2 in particular with my buggy and have to sent my older dc's ahead on their scooters while I go into the road with my toddler. Most of them have empty driveways to make matters worse. I even watched one move her car all over the road while the pavements where being resurfaced but refused to park on her driveway.

Talk to the council and ask them to send a parking warden. You can be given a fixed penalty notice for obstructing the pavement with your vehicle if you park it on the pavement outside a designated space.

YANBU, but do think about when you complain and they start parking all those extra cars on the road, are you then going to be complaining about not being able to get any parking near your house? Sometimes you need to weigh up your options before hoiking your judgey pants up too high.