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AIBU?

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To have parking rage!

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Supervet · 08/05/2015 19:39

We live in a group of flats. Each flat has a numbered space. We pay rent for these spaces as part of our rent. We have huge residents only signs up.

There is a primary school nearby. The school does not allow anyone other than disabled to park on the school car park. There is a church car park they are allowed to use two minutes walk in the other direction.

Every morning and night the parents pile on to our car park, they drive at speed, park on the spaces right up to peoples front doors, they park on the grass and flagged verge where the resident children play.
They have been known to beep at you if you are not quick enough walking across.

In a morning to be honest most people have left for work and it is not so much an issue and they tend to drop and run anyway.

In an evening it is an utter nightmare. They park for 40 minutes while they arrive early and wait. Then they stay chatting to other parents. It is rammed and every single car park space is filled.

Residents coming home have no where to park. Today a disabled resident had to park elsewhere and struggle down and a couple with a baby ended up sat in the car park in their car waiting for people to move for ten minutes because it was chucking it down with rain.

They also park on the pavement, on double yellows and double park and pull into the street quickly risking hitting crossing children.

So today one of the residents asked them to move their car so they could park and got whinged at. She told the next two who pulled in it was residential car parking and one apologised but the other mouthed off.

Basically it was " I can park where I want, you cannot stop me parking here, it's not like every house has a car anyway so what are you moaning at"

She wouldn't accept it at all that she was in the wrong!

We have told the school and they have sent a letter home but they don't care.

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FenellaFellorick · 08/05/2015 19:43

Can you all get together and make the management company put those colapsable bollards up?

abigamarone · 08/05/2015 19:43

Can you not organise an en masse block-in, where you all park up blocking them in and leave them for a couple of hours?

I feel for you, I live near a school and on the rare occasion I've driven home in the school finishing hours I'm always surprised by just how many cars park up in my street.

Debs75 · 08/05/2015 19:44

Ask your local pcso or traffic warden to patrol at school run times. A few tickets usually stops them

YADNBU to be angry parents dropping off kids at school often get people's backs up

IAmNotAMindReader · 08/05/2015 19:45

Ring 101 or drop into your local police station and ask their advice. If they are there that long seeing a few get towed might put the rest off.

Alternatively as a more long term measure contact your landlord and ask what they can do. There may be bollards or gate/fence they can put in which is either key or remote operated.

atomich01 · 08/05/2015 19:46

I was about to suggest the bollards thing, or a barrier!

Difficult to stop them parking on yellow lines unless you can get the council to send a warden in, but bollards/barriers might stop them getting in the residents car park?

Alanna1 · 08/05/2015 19:47

Get a barrier?

Andrewofgg · 08/05/2015 19:48

Bollards to them!

Oldieandgoldie · 08/05/2015 19:55

Big painted rockery type stones on the grass verge. Laminated 'no parking' signs stuck into grass and cheap chain or rope strung across. A couple of people in high vis vests standing with a camera every morning and evening for a few days, and photos/reg numbers sent to the school, with a copy to police. Or displayed on a board near your parking spots. Or local newspaper article about selfish parking. Etc etc

Good luck.

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Supervet · 08/05/2015 19:56

We have a bollard but the very end house attached to the flats is a business building with a few specific marked places (still private customer only parking) and they would not allow us to have the bollard up. They have actually gone now but the building is still up for rent as a business place so they still won't let us use the bollard.

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londonrach · 08/05/2015 20:00

Penguin bollards and a gate that can be locked!!!! Also suggest clamps. Naughty but few hours not able to move the car and i bet no parents will park there again.

IAmNotAMindReader · 08/05/2015 20:02

Ask them again and if the answer's still no and no other solution is forthcoming form them, demand they either sort it or refund the rental of the space to all of you. That may concentrate their minds a bit more towards bring more reasonable.
I'd still request a visit form traffic wardens etc as well. The more they are discouraged the better.

I have lived close to 2 schools and the sense of entitlement and pure nutter behaviour I have witnessed over the years from parents has to be seen to be believed.

Perfectlypurple · 08/05/2015 20:14

Council for the traffic wardens to ticket and police for the local pcso to come round. If you go onto your police website and look for local policing it should tell you who that is and you can email them directly

DoMeDon · 08/05/2015 20:17

Blockade

Collaborate · 08/05/2015 20:21

+1 for blockade. That's the only thing that will stop them. Block them in all night.

honeyroar · 08/05/2015 20:25

Have someone on the gate/entrance with a sign saying "Parking £1 for 40 minutes"?

But yes, I would flood the police/council/school governors with phone calls of complaint.

MsMarvel · 08/05/2015 20:43

Speak to the school involved to see if there can be a message or warning out out to parents?

Andrewofgg · 08/05/2015 20:46

They won't listen to warnings or messages because they are lazy and selfish. The only way is for residents to take it in turns to sit in their own cars in the entrance and only move for other residents until they get the idea - and then an occasional blockade if they come back.

RebootYourEngine · 08/05/2015 20:51

This would seriously piss me off. It would be more the attitude of the parent drivers than the actual shitty parking.

I would either have a mass block in or get on to your landlord and get them to either refund the money that you have paid for the parking or do something about the parents.

MythicalKings · 08/05/2015 20:54

Call a meeting with your neighbours and arrange blockade. Keep doing it until they stop.

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Supervet · 08/05/2015 21:15

That is exactly it. It is not so much the shitty parking and driving as the awful entitled attitude. Mind you one of them has a 4 by 4 with a sponsored by Daddy sign on and it makes me cringe.

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Supervet · 08/05/2015 21:17

I doubt police or traffic wardens will do anything because it is private land :( I am going to find where the fuckers live and park on their drives.

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SouthWestmom · 08/05/2015 21:18

It's a private carpark so I doubt the police would be interested. Block them in or get collards for each space?

Manic3mum · 08/05/2015 21:19

Penguin bollards!

Perfectlypurple · 08/05/2015 21:26

Ah, didn't realise it was all private land, thought the grass verges were public. How about a lockable chain across the entrance for a while at the relevant times. Maybe residents could take it in turns locking it and being on the look out for other residents.

HappenstanceMarmite · 08/05/2015 21:26

Another vote for blocking the bastards in.

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