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Parking Wars AIBU to expect school to help do something!

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Parkingwarsaga · 08/12/2017 18:10

OK have name changed as very outing.

We live a few doors down from a primary school. The school has a carpark at the church next door possibly 30 foot from school. We are in the other direction.

Our flats have a car park. It can not be closed off with bollards as the end property and a property across the back road are business and have spaces there.
Spaces are included in our rent.

We however have signs up informing people it is a private car park and each space is numbered to a flat. Some spaces are up to peoples front windows.

We have contacted the school endless times and they have asked parents not to park there and to park on the church but they continue to park there filling every space.

We had had residents with babies, small children and disabled residents who haven't been able to park in the spaces included in their rent, people coming home from work who can't park in their spaces. A registered disabled relative of a resident who can't walk far and had to park the other end of a long road.

We have faced abuse numerous times when politely informing people its a private space. Former residents in the past have been told they can park where they 'fucking well want'

One neighbour got annoyed and blocked someone in who was parked right up to his front window and was told he better move now or else cause the woman had a baby. The same women who had blocked another actual resident from coming home with her newborn previously.

Parents drive in to the car park at speed. I've been beeped at for not moving quick enough across the car park so parents who shouldn't be there can park. I've put my bins in my space so my disabled father can park when he comes that morning and they've been moved.

You might think it's only a few minutes but some people come half an hour early and wait or stay half an hour later and chat playing loud music or with their kids running screaming and shouting disturbing shift workers. It's every morning at breakfast club then school time, after school, after school clubs, every book club, every after school play or nativity or music lesson. it's infuriating and I'm sure half the people who do it would go bonkers if people parked up to their front window blasting music.

We have spoke endlessly to the landlord and the school. The landlord has told us that if we want it sorted we have to pay hundreds of pounds for an automated barrier with passes for all including the businesses one of which is currently empty and I currently don't have the money to do this.

School have basically said oh deary me we can send a letter home but nothing else we can do. (they have parked on peoples gardens and hedges before now!)

Surely rather than cause hassle with neighbours a couple of mornings of some member of staff walking the few feet to our carpark at the main time for ten minutes a couple of times would put a stop to it.

Their tag line is all about giving to, being part of and being an asset to the community which is a joke.

OP posts:
Babieseverywhere · 11/12/2017 12:57

What about asking the landlord to pay for the fence up front and everyone could pay an additional £10 per month on their rent for a year to pay landlord back ?

Babieseverywhere · 11/12/2017 13:00

Electric gate not fence, lol

Andrewofgg · 11/12/2017 13:02

No, even if you buy a house near a school you can expect nobody to park on your drive or to block it. It makes no difference whether the school was there before the house or the house before the school. An HT of a school which had some parking would not expect the locals to block it "because there was nowhere else".

NovemberWitch · 11/12/2017 13:06

I agree Andrew, it’s the law and it doesn’t change according to what was there at first or not. I’m infuriated by parents who park on the zig zags. Illegal, but they ignore or bluster any challenge and continue doing it.

Andrewofgg · 11/12/2017 13:35

Zig zags mean "reserved for me"!

RandomMess · 11/12/2017 13:38

I really hope the Landlord goes down the parking firm route!!!

You will need to make a note of visitor reg plates I assume.

Provide a notice to the school it is happening then do it.

I hate hate having to pick my DC up in the car due to the stress of finding somewhere to park and not overhanging a driveway etc. Incredibly grateful I don't need to often and as they are secondary age I can pull in and wait rather than having to park. I've had residents ask to move so the can park outside their house and I say "of course" & move up to the next available spot!!

Parkingwarsaga · 11/12/2017 14:23

Similar here Francis.
My family have lived in the streets around school since at least the 1800s
The flats we live in was built in the early 1900s possibly earlier.
The school was built in the 70s...

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grannytomine · 11/12/2017 14:49

I moved near to a school with 200 pupils. Not next door and were no problem to me. It increased and there were huts to house kids and parking started to spread and we sometimes had problems. School has been rebuilt for 600 pupils and it is a nightmare.

FrancisCrawford · 11/12/2017 15:28

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GreyMorning · 11/12/2017 15:38

I encounter a school Mum parked blocking a public road so I took pictures of the vehicle and emailed them to the head. They contacted the parent directly with the complaint.

Maybe take pictures of every infraction and email to the head directly?

MaggieFS · 11/12/2017 15:47

Another vote for a private enforcement company. Sounds like it would be easy money for them, which should interest them.

FWIW I do think the school has an obligation to try and do something as members of the community.

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