Parking on pavement outside my house

[carrielou2007]

I live in a semi next to a road that is for buses/pedestrians only. Everyone except me parks on the huuuuge pavements outside their houses, I park on the road (or my parking space around the back).

Next door is rented whilst owners are in NZ for 5 year contract and recently new neighbours park outside on the pavement and regularly in front on my house on the pavement which gives me the rage. I knock EVERY time if they do yet the turn the lights off and don't answer the door. Two weeks ago my postie left a parcel there and I did not get it for a week despite knocking every blessed day winter coat they'd ripped open the brown paper packaging then obs not sure what to do so chucked it over rear fence and it got soaked.

So tonight, they have yet again parked outside their house on the big pavement and mine as I was putting some stuff in the recycling bins outside I noticed and commented swore as the bloke got out of his car to which he said 'I'll move it'. I waited the fir him to get back and yet again said please don't park on the pavement (about 30 ft) outside my house, the road is for everyone, the pavement is for people not cars. He then argued with me/fit shouty.

They do not speak much English so some could be lost in translation but he was shouty/cross I just said again do not park on the pavement outside my house, please park on the road, he commented something that I didn't understand.

Was feeling quite proud I had done non-British thing been direct and yet now am cowering in my house invade they key my car.

AIBU or should I ring the local police assistant roles tomorrow? One time I parked with two inches over the dropped kerb outside I got a £60 fine so parking on the pavement surely is a no brainer??

that makes much more sense with the diagram!!
could you ask the council to put the posts/or some flowers up?

If you're not in London then the pavement is considered part of the highway and it's not illegal to park on it AS LONG AS you're not causing an obstruction, which it sounds like your neighbour IS.

If everyone is parking on the pavement then you are not going to persuade him to stop doing it just because it's outside your house. You need to either

• focus on the obstruction and ask him to put his car in a position where your door is not obstructed, accepting that you can't actually prevent him from leaving his car in front of your house, OR
• Get the council to put up enough posts that the whole pavement is 'out of bounds' to cars so nobody can park on it - but be prepared to make yourself unpopular with the neighbours if you go down this route

One last point - if there are double yellow lines on the bus lane (unlikely there would be, I suppose) then these DO apply to the pavements too so you could then persuade the council/police to start ticketing people for that (again, at the risk of making yourself unpopular).

is it access only? id guess that why everyone is on the pavment u got a ticket because u were partly on the road

Can't believe you don't know the solution.

Penguin bollards!