Parents standing on my front lawn

[Twizbe]

Trying to decide if I say something to the Head so thought I'd ask here first.

I live next to a 2 form entry junior school. Our house is the last of 3 down a single track private dead end road. The end of the road is a gate for the school. Our property boundaries the school.

When we moved in this gate was just emergency access / gardener access for the school. No kids used this entrance.

After covid the school use this gate for year 6. Since the schools went back after Xmas we have 60 kids using this gate morning and evening.

A few times now I've seen parents stood on our lawn or in sunny weather sat on it.

Today I came home and this bloke was stood almost at our front door playing with the leaves on a young tree in the lawn (it's about waist height)

He just gave me a dirty look at I turned my car into my drive.

AIBU to ask the school to remind parents that this is private property and not a place to sit / stand.

Jesus. Its not making a scene.
It's your garden and you're just asking the bloke to move. That's not making a scene. I know women have been conditioned to be doormats but come on.

Sprinkler

Get the school to put up a fence. It’s their customers that are invading your property.

I'd put a bit of edging fencing in for a bit. But wouldn't go too mad as it will all presumably go back to not being split up and queuing again at some point, and that year group will go back to wherever they went in before.

OP are you me?
I have them queuing outside my house (open fronted, sadly) from 1500 to 1530 as the school won't allow congregating in the playground. Pisses me right off.
Most are OK, but some odd folk will stand on the edge of my grass. I just don't like it, I don't know them, they're not invited.
If they sat on my lawn I'd tell them to get up and off while filming them. I'd sent cctv shots to school. I'm allowed to film within my boundary.

Hardly making a scene by telling someone trespassing on your property to move off!
Crikey.

Get a fence up PDQ.

Mention it to the school first but then yes I think you'll need a pointy, substantial fence. The sprinkler does sound tempting .

This would give me the rage!!

Especially the cheeky fecker giving you a dirty look. In your own garden.

With the weather getting better it will only get worse.

Every time someone comes into your garden ask them to leave.and write to the school. Great advise to film it too and show the extent of the problem.

These people wouldn’t tolerate their gardens being used like this.

Fence sounds good. But I'd contact the school.

Invest in a large pile of manure - the smellier the better - and spread it round the perimeter.

Fence. Sign saying 'private land'. More signs saying 'beware the dog/bull/teenager' and also buy a motion sensor loudspeaker that says "get the fuck off my garden!"

You should have to do anything to your garden to make it clear to them. The school should be doing something. I would definitely be calling and speaking to the head about it.

I feel your pain, I have a school about 2 streets away, and get the parents parking in marked residential spaces as they drop off / pick up, I’ve had a go in the past, some move and some just give you a mouthful of abuse, then you get the discarded face masks & sweet wrappers, some people just don’t care.

@StoneofDestiny

Hardly making a scene by telling someone trespassing on your property to move off! Crikey.

Get a fence up PDQ.

Exactly. I would have returned the dirty look, in spades, and then told him he needed to get off my lawn.

Not unreasonable. If anything, you sound very understanding of the school needing to use this gate due to Covid but I agree, just politely ask people to get off your property next time. There’s a difference between standing at the end of your drive waiting for the kids, and almost having a picnic on your lawn.

Fence or row of planters etc and a private property sign.

I like the ring.com idea!!! I notice when I walk my children to school that so many parents just seems to mooch around and linger before and after pickup dropoff for a chat (or noisy telephone arguments!) in front of people's houses and on their driveways. Maybe try the school again xxx

You can buy movement sensitive fox repellants which squirt a jet of water at knee height if something sets them off. One on each corner of the lawn should do it.

They don't repel foxes btw

WHAT'S THAT OP? A SALE ON SPRINKLERS AT B&Q?!

I think you are very lucky they are not parking on it!

Sprinklers will work better than contacting the school let's be honest, look at the mess around every single school in this country (and probably others too)

@Londonmummy66

You can buy movement sensitive fox repellants which squirt a jet of water at knee height if something sets them off. One on each corner of the lawn should do it.

They don't repel foxes btw

😂😂

Rush around flicking them with a tea towel whilst shouting 'off-off' in your best fishwife tone.

You shouldn’t have to spend money or re-landscape your garden because people are idiots.

Get the school on it.

But also be prepared to tell people that it’s your garden.

Electrified fence.

Signs don’t work! We have one up saying “private, no public right of way” - someone walked past it and when challenged said “I chose to ignore it” - which really did give me the rage.