Can’t keep honking my horn!

[LillianaVess]

Hey,
Long time lurker, and I know you guys like a parking thread...
So I live in a terrace that backs on to another terrace. I can park in my back yard, as all around me is resident parking only and my pass ran out last week (yes I know, but I have a space in my yard)
Anyway...
I go down the snicket to park in my yard this morning and there’s a van parked in the snicket in front of my yard.
I’ve beeped my horn a few times.
I’ve knocked on the doors of the houses near and around the van is parked.
What else can I do please??
I’ve tried to attach a pic, my yard is the one with the open garage door.

Brutus - my wife didn't know this word either. She's from the South West and I'm from Yorkshire where its a common word. Down here they call them lanes instead but to me a lane is a type of road so that makes no sense....

Brutus
I’m originally from Yorkshire I suppose alley would be better but I do love a snicket!

Snicket? That's clearly a jitty,

This is a slightly different issue if there is a right of access across the back of the properties as there is a right for it to be kept free of blockages. It is different to access to driveways etc. However it may be a civil issue rather than anything else.

Isn't it a GINNEL?

No no, it's not a snicket or a jitty, it's a twitten.

A lane is a country road with trees that leads to naice houses
That is a snicket

Ooh it might be a ginnel! Another favourite of mine!

Ginnel is another word for it but my wife just thinks that's crazy talk haha

I am furiously googling these previously unknown to me words ... they're great thanks OP

"...the north-west, the term entry is also used, especially of the covered passageway in a row of terraced houses used to access the back yard (the Scouse word ennog seems to be a playful alteration of this). And so it goes on across the country. From the jiggers of Liverpool to the pends of Dundee, the ten-foots of Hull to the lanes and closes of Edinburgh, diversity is the order of the day."

I had no idea there were so many. Laughing at the thought of 'someone's blocking my entry'

Fluffy - the north west is always at but offer than the north east/Yorkshire
Over’t Pennines is scary for us Yorkshire lot

ODDER not offer ergg

Well done for calling 101. What are the police going to do about it?

I reserved several residents parking bays in London years ago for my removal trucks (had to pay the council for it). They suspend the bays with massive signs weeks in advance. Car was parked in the middle when my lorries arrived, right next to huge signs saying bay is suspended. We couldn't park and unload. I had to phone the council, it was towed away within half an hour. Cue angry car driver shouting and swearing at me - all her fault, not mine, I had no option.

That was just to say that the council might have a similar policy for this lane by your yard, I don't know. 101, local police station or the council - they should tow him away.

What did they say when you rang 101 out of interest?

(alley )

Snicket! Ginnel! Ennog! The thread that keeps on giving!

It's a Back Passage, innit?

It's the backs. A ginnel is a covered walkway between otherwise terraced houses. I love "snicket" though. Glad you got the van issue sorted.

It's a twitten!