To complain to school about parking? Diagram included

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We have a primary school on our estate (nice school, kids used to attend).

It's the usual chaos of parking around 3 o'clock when I am heading out to collect mine. Parents generally don't park on the yellow lines but every inch of road is packed with cars.

Outside the school is an area of grass. So yesterday I saw a woman drive over the yellow zigzags over the curb, onto the pavement on park up on this grass. Not see this before and I can see that if it becomes a regular thing by December the grass will be a torn up muddy eyesore on my road. I also think it's illegal to drive over a pavement if there is no dropped curb?

WIBU to report this to the headteacher, or am I being a bit of a nimby?

I know it probably varies by authority, but my borough has a specific form on their website to report people driving over pavements (without dropped kerbs). They ask for a log of dates/time and photos if possible.

Could be worth checking out your local authorities website. Driving over pavements can cause costly damage!

I would also raise it with the school. My youngest DDs school work closely with local parking enforcement and the parking situation is generally quite good now (it used to be awful). At the start of each school year, it deteriorates, but parents soon get the message.

Our head teacher goes out and talks to parents if there are parking issues. I would talk a photograph and email school. Schools absolutely get involved with parking around their schools.

Gutted! A huge van with a load of lawn mowers and rollers was parked there. It said something g about garden maintenance company, and was cutting the school hedges and grass.

I'll try again next week