To ask how you would feel about learner drivers being parked outside your house, every flipping hour of the day

[Derlei]

We live on a street that attracts a lot of learner drivers. On a normal day you can see up to 15 an hour driving past or doing some kind of manoeuvre (I actually counted! Most of the time it's the same ones going round and round in circles)

They particularly seem to like the front of our house, as we are on a corner, so they love to practice reversing into the street next to us.

I can cope with the cars going up and down the road as they have paid their road tax just as much as I have, however I'm getting irritated by the ones (of which there are many) who park up outside our house for more than 10/15 minutes a time obviously just talking about their manouvres/re-capping etc. They are doing this constantly. They don't block the entrance to our drive but are right in front of our living room window. We have huge windows so because of this we keep the blinds half drawn pretty much all day.
After being parked up for ages, the learner would then swap sides with the instructor and while they do so, they can't help but naturally glance in to our window as it's so big and they are smack bang in front of it.

Some of the learners park on the opposite side of the road to our driver which is less annoying but if I'm driving in or reversing out of the drive it can be a bit tight.

Aibu to be annoyed by this and do I just have to suck it up?? I feel like putting cones up along the length of our drive but I don't think I have a right to!

BeingEB. I have tried to contact the daily mail already but they werent interested unless the instructors were immigrants. I said that I could get them a photo of a BSM car, they said that unless it stands for British School of Muslims they're not interested.

Thanks for the suggestion though

Good for you Derlei - well batted!

Oh blimey. I'm learning to drive and, like most learners, have no say in where we go to practice. So your road is not attracting learners drivers as such, but is attracting driving instructors. Now I'll be worrying that I'm not only annoying residents when I practise manoeuvres, but that they are also potentially laughing at my crappy skills!

We all have to learn somewhere and since being a non-driver is a MN no-no, I think you may be being a tad unreasonable...

Thanks Sir and thanks for sticking up for me! I would've replied sooner but I was sat on the ledge looking out the window

Naked I hope, Derlei?

Meh. Put up a webcam and stream it live to youtube. As you say, there is lightly to be some amusing attempts. Get some advertising income (not much to be fair) from it. Send the link to the local instructors and see if they continue to do it.

Complain in writing to DVSA. Our centre had a notice to the instructors to be considerate of residents on X and Y roads and alternate routes, etc. There are 13 routes for the test locally but only 2 or 3 places with very wide, safe streets or quiet corners like you describe (when you have to reverse round a corner). Naturally, almost all instructors will use them as they're the safest places to learn. And in the end, it's about learning to drive safely and minimise risk of an accident. Not about someone looking into your window.

Just a put a couple of traffic cones on the pavement.

Not legal but no one will challenge it if there's otherwise enough parking on the road.

Lots of my neighbours did this.

chloe putting cones out on the pavement is just the actions of a total arsehole. Seriously! It's a public highway. And as you said it's not legal.

Yabu. What are you worried they're doing when glancing at your windows?

I can see why it's annoying. I remember the thought even occurred to me as a learner when my instructor would take me down the same old streets to practice some maneuvers. Reverse are a corner is being scrapped this year apparently so that may help somewhat but not sure what else you can do.

Come to think of it, evee reminded me my instructor also commented that this was "his" spot to teach his students to parallel park and was most apologetic when someone opened the front door and was leaving their house. He mentioned the residents of the houses were usually out at work, which was one of the reasons this was his preferred spot.

OP, if you've only just gone on maternity leave, maybe worth making your presence known to the instructors as they might think no one is home?

OP I'm an instructor. What you need to do is call the local test centre and complain. If possible get your neighbors to do the same. They will then put a notice up in the waiting room requesting that the local instructors not use your road as frequently. They can't force them but it does help.

My dps have had this since moving to their current home over 30 years ago. They're on nodding and waving terms with lots of the instructors now! I can't see the problem tbh.

Billabye- thank you for the advice, and I hope you didn't take offence at anything I said.

Trolls poop I guess I could ; standing naked at the window like PPs have suggested should do it hopefully

We used to live in a similar road. They'd use the corner immediately across from our house to reverse round, so we often got lights in our windows too, and I got particularly fed up with my car being used as a target to park around.

One of DH's colleagues had the same learner school practice a turn in the road immediately outside his house several times a day, and sit there with engine running. As he worked nights this woke him up, and he went out to ask the instructor politely if he'd mind going elsewhere. Got a mouthful from instructor who basically told him it was a public road and he'd go where he liked.

That night at tea break he announced to the crew he was off to make a phone call. At 3am. Came back to say he'd spoken to the driving instructor in a jolly voice, explaining that he was the man who'd been woken up by the learner cars and that he was returning the compliment. The instructor didn't ever bring his learners there again.

FFS are you for real??Derlei "I can cope with the cars going up and down the road as they have paid their road tax just as much as I have, however..."

No such thing as road tax but WTF has that to do with it anyway???

Step away from the ? key Thakita.

It means that I'm acknowledging that I don't own the right to drive on a road

Vehicle tax, motoring tax, whatever you wish to call it.

YANBU. Park on the road.

No offense taken at all. I live near a learner hotspot and it drives me crackers as well

That's brilliant Ewan!

Love it Ewan!

All day long.....!