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?

The problem is most schools have nowhere for parents to park at all.

The problem isn't lack of parking - it's our car dependent culture. If you're able bodied and within 2 miles of school, you can walk it. If the catchment area is larger and there's no public transport there should be school buses - as there are in rural areas. We should make decent, joined up, well thought out cycling facilities so people can cycle. We should invest in public transport. What we really shouldn't do is give over any more land to storing cars. People really need to accept how damaging this and how impossible it is for everyone to drive everywhere.

I'd buy a high vis jacket for the biggest scariest neighbour on the road set some signs up and start charging entry each morning.
That'd make any cf scarper. They don't like parting with their ££ and would also confuse them too much to bother.

Maybe buy some "No Parking - Private Property" stickers to stick on the offender's car windows? Even Amazon do quite a large range, including a whole load of hard to remove ones.

I also agree with a PP's suggestion of large rocks either side of your driveway. We have them, as do most of the private roads here, and they do make parking more difficult. You only have to get football sized ones.

Put one of the super sticky labels or some other sticky substance on the windscreens. Won't damage the car but will annoy and inconvenience them.

not sit with their engine on whilst waiting for kids. There were replies saying that the car needed to be warm for kids getting in,
What fucking idiot says this? No wonder we have global warming.

A private road near me the residents put wheelie bins across the road to stop parents parking at ds primary school & took turns keeping watch from inside their homes. A couple of parents chanced it & after their cars being surrounded with bins never bothered again.

rather than making it blocked, as you and the other residents own it you have full jurisdiction over it, you would be better to advertise it with a notice "school dropoff/pickup parking £50 per minute 8:30-9:30 am and 2:45-3:45 pm, £10 per minute at other times" - and get official posters of terms and conditions of parking laid out, including exemptions for residents and their guests, visitors, delivery vehicles and service providers with resident's permission.

cctv camera to record time of arrival and departure and start issuing invoices.

no one would park there twice.

Then there would be a Mumsnet thread "AIBU not to pay this parking fine- I was only parked for five minutes and they've fined me £250."

A nice gate, locked for an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon (residents to have keys) with a sign "ring mobile xxxxxxx to unlock"

Find a frail, wizened, stooped person to hobble painstakingly to the gate, waving cheerily, and shouting "be with you in a moment... bear with, bear with" and then fumbling awkwardly through every pocket, finding the wrong key, apologising profusely, hobbling back home to look for the right key....

I’ve never understood how people get so worked up over school run drop offs and pick ups.
Obviously Parking over drives is unreasonable but other than that it takes 5-10 mins to drop off /pick up

Yes, but the point is it’s several 5-10 min drops offs constantly.

What if any would be the insurance point of view if anyone pranged another car on 'private land'?

@Vanhi what about those of us who have to work? I have to drive my dc to school if I walked I would be late for work and late picking them up. Many families don’t have the luxury of a stay at home parent.

Car dependency isn't something individuals can solve on their own. It needs infrastructure for us to be able to move away from using cars all the time. With decent cycle facilities and public transport it should be possible to navigate towns and cities without cars. Our car dependency is contributing to a climate catastrophe and calling for more car parking is not the answer. Campaigning for workable alternatives is a much better option.

Nice one Piglet.

Totally block the road. I live on a road opposite a school and had issues for years until the council put yellow lines in at drop off and pick up time but it hasn't fixed the issue - parents still park where they choose regardless of road markings or safety. Block the road and be done with it.

You'd be better off lurking round the corner till the bulk of culprits are in your road, then blocking them in for period of time that inconveniences them.

And do that on random days, so there is always a risk.

Flat tyres are a terrible nuisance, for example. Just one of those things that take time to be sorted..,

I used to live on a road that was unadopted but legally open to all traffic. Don't assume anything about the status without checking.

Landmines are the answer, as always.

Patroclus :-).

Op, you and your neighbours get together in the middle of the night and paint RESIDENTS PARKING ONLY in various places in the road. Someone will be able to fix up an official looking sign at the end of road saying the same.

If the council come round and ask about it, no one knows anything - they just thought it was the council.

Landmines are the answer, as always.

Poor taste

Dont care. And I grew up in Bosnia. Sure you'll get over it,

Being born in Bosnia doesn’t give you the right to make land mine jokes. I don’t want to play to trumps with you. Just nasty.

What if any would be the insurance point of view if anyone pranged another car on 'private land'?

Makes no difference in terms of civil or criminal liability.

Presumably there only there for about 20 mins twice a day?

Not necessarily. All sorts of things can mean it's much longer than that: parents who have to pick up children with different school hours, people who need to talk to the teacher, parents who hang around chatting with each other for ages, etc etc.