To block the road I live on so people can't park there?

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As the thread name suggests... I live on a private road. It's near a school. Parents park there all the time, sometimes on double yellows. They block our driveways and limit our access. Where would I legally stand if myself and other residents block the end of the road one day to block the cars in to send them the message that we won't put up with it any more?

@ProfessorSlocombe that's exactly what happened in my street. Our entrance was next to a school that had regular deliveries on large trucks. The school kept their gates locked so trucks would drive into our private road to turn round. £8k worth of damage later.....

Our road has been destroyed by all the trucks for the three building estates being built going up and down. Two years ago the road was fine but now it is dangerous.

If it is a road you have to pay for to resurface... That shit it expensive. Maybe talk to the school and telling them that you need to come up with a solution better than just letters. Even if it is a staff standing out for a few weeks a term or putting out cones. Maybe even work together on having a fine system so the school and local residents benefit and stops the parents being wankers

If no CCTV, get a shape strong knife and puncture a few tyres, it's very quick and easy. One jab. Pre all these cameras I did scratch a rude message on someone's bonnet who was a repeat bad parking offender.

Get these:
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If it is a road you have to pay for to resurface... That shit it expensive.

Not to mention prising the money out of the residents. It can be bad enough when people own the house. Imagine trying to get a landlord to stump up. That is of course assuming that all parties (a) agree on the need for repairs/maintenance (in the absence of an agreed schedule in the deeds) (b) agree with the price/quote/chosen contractor and (c) agree with any apportionment (your house takes up more road than mine, why should we pay the same ?).

We live on a similar road, moved here after barriers were put on either end but a neighbour was telling us that the barriers went up because of people driving through the road in a dangerous way and there being a couple of near misses with children and cars. In our case, it’s an unadopted road, so the council do not maintain it but it’s not a private road as such but residents have indemnity insurance and people use it to walk through.

Clamping has been illegal since 2012 under the Protection of Freedoms Act.

To clarify - by offence I mean a criminal offence punishable by hefty fines.

*illegal not offence, sorry 😳

I never understand why more British schools don’t just have a one way carpool lane, where nobody parks and parents don’t even get out the car. The teacher opens the car door, kids jump out and run into school, parent drives off and everyone moves on. It would have been perfect in my kids’ old primary school and saved no end of arguments between locals and bad parkers.

I never understand why more British schools don’t just have a one way carpool lane, where nobody parks and parents don’t even get out the car. The teacher opens the car door, kids jump out and run into school, parent drives off and everyone moves on. It would have been perfect in my kids’ old primary school and saved no end of arguments between locals and bad parkers.

They don't do it because they claim it would encourage parents to drive their kids to school.

They don't do it because they claim it would encourage parents to drive their kids to school.

UK planning policy for the past 30 years has been to discourage and deincentivise personal motor transport. Hence new builds with fuck all parking, limited to zero car parking spaces for new retail sites, hospitals, schools, stations plus high parking costs, bypasses that take longer, and traffic light phasings to slow, not speed traffic.

That's really irresponsible - what if emergency services need access? You could think about all chipping in for a gate or barrier of similar though?

That's really irresponsible - what if emergency services need access?

Or indeed your everyday Amazon delivery ?

In my mums street the council have made it resident only during school hours, up went the camera and anyone who doesn't have a resident permit gets a nice £70 fine.

That's wonderful, @bigbadboss, but it has as much relevance to the OPs issue as the chip butty I am eating.

You can buy fake parking tickets. Go slap a few of those on...

I used to live somewhere where we had to have permits to park. It was right by a private school so we'd get back to find our spaces all taken by 4X4s (there was a car park down the road where you could park for 20p). Someone must have had a word with the council and got the traffic wardens to come round at the end of the school day as it very suddenly stopped.

In my mums street the council have made it resident only during school hours, up went the camera and anyone who doesn't have a resident permit gets a nice £70 fine.

As a previous poster noted, there's many a slip 'twixt cip and lip. Quote aside from the sloppiness of terminology you have little problem of extracting the money. You forgot to tell us how many people have actually paid up under this regime.

@professorslocombe it's not my street so I dont care how many people have paid up. If people are worried about money being extorted they just don't drive down the street. It's been publicised plenty in the newspaper, school notices, social media and political campaigns. If people are still daft enough to drive down with all that forewarning they deserve the fines

@Trunkysaurus well not really they can hire a private firm to do the same thing although for parking rather than entry

I honestly believe parents on the school run are simply the most evil when it comes to parking. It’s like something comes over them and laws and manners no longer apply.

I feel for you OP but you can’t educate pork.

We have private roads in our area and they tend to have either very nice gates or some very posh barrier type thing across it. It keeps school run parents and general riff-raff out I think.

Blocking them in will only work in the short term. I’d suggest one final communication with the school to say you’re installing a gate/barrier as this is a private toad and not for public parking, and any cars parking in there will be locked in until someone is available to let them out. It’s a permanent solution and may resolve the problem. Drastic times call for drastic measures and you’ll get this problem year on year with all the new parents otherwise.

Good luck.

www.flashpark.co.uk/HowItWorks.aspx

A hassle, admittedly, but it's got to be better than the "solution" used by some round here ... which was paint stripper

Invest in barrier automated by a key code. If all residents contribute, and good luck with that!, as it’s a private road, no problem.

We have a street here exactly the same and it's always the same parents parking there. Personally I'd contact the police directly and ask for comes which can be put out in the morning and afternoon each day. It will be a pain in the bum but will work.

Nothing to do with the police.