WWYD if someone parked on your drive

[FlippertyFlip80]

or in your private parking space?

You point it out to them that they are parking on your private space and they mumble a sorry and walk off without moving their car...

I have blocked them in. AIBU?

Bird seed all over the bonnet. Fuckers.

Have you drank a bottle of wine so you can't move the car yet OP?

Why do people do this? Absolutely unbelievable. There was another thread wasn't there where the OP blocked the CF in, aided and abetted by her fantastic neighbours. Did that end up in classics?

I feel really angry on your behalf but here's the legal view. www.daslaw.co.uk/blog/what-to-do-if-a-car-blocks-your-driveway
Might be best to get a bollard or way of securing your place going forward.

If I could do a diagram, I would but I don't know how!

This is the best I can do:

Houses. 5 private Spaces

5 private spaces Space they
could have
parked/moved to
but didn't.

@Kitfish

I came home once to find an Asda delivery van parked on my private drive. When I told him to move (because it was my drive) he called me a silly bitch and insulted my car. People can be very selfish and rude.

hope you reported him!

@Kitfish

I came home once to find an Asda delivery van parked on my private drive. When I told him to move (because it was my drive) he called me a silly bitch and insulted my car. People can be very selfish and rude.

I hope you reported him to Asda!!

@Justmuddlingalong

When they come to the door, mumble a sorry and close the door.

Go out for the evening, or even a couple of days.

Just tell them they are thoughtless, selfish and entitled. Leave it at that.

I'd have said calmly "Sorry I need you to move it, I need to park in my space. If you don't move it now I'll call a tow company.".

As my 4 year old knows well, I don't make threats I make promises, so I would 100% follow through.

And yet he got out, so he doesn't care...

I think you were kind. At the very least I would have put something like flour over the windscreen or stuck a notice on there.

The other thought that would have occurred to me would have been to report them to the DVLA on the grounds their eyesight may be poor.

An insurance agent parked on my drive once then walked over the road to his appointment. I saw him do it as I approached home so blocked him by parking close behind him. He knocked to ask me to remove my car and I told him I was having a shower first. He said he would be late for his next appt and I said , 'Tough'. I made him wait an hour. There was plenty of space to park elsewhere including the drive where he was visiting and visitor lay-by parking too. I expect he came to the wrong address, initially, and couldn't be arsed to move his car . Hopefully, he won't do that again to me or someone else. Lesson learnt the hard way.

Willowowisp your link is irrelevant, that's about parking on a public road that happens to be outside your home, which you have no legal right over. OP is talking about a private parking space which she owns.

Ps its possible to block a car on your own driveway and not obstruct the public highway.

@FlippertyFlip80

They shouldn’t have walk off
They should have moved it but maybe something horrid is happening to them.

Did you need the space? If not if it’s not a repeat thing let it go.

The moment you need it and they do t have a horrific thing happening to them it’s time to block it and sleep in your car so they don’t damage it until they come back

@FlippertyFlip80

They managed to get out and left a note saying it didn't say private (I told them it was private and there are 4 signs up all over the car park saying private parking).

It's the entitlement that gets to me. "I don't care that it's your space, it doesn't say private over this specific spot so I'm still going to park here". I told them we pay to have that space.

Jam on the windscreen stops anyone doing it again. Next time get a neighbour to help block them in.

@SilverGlitterBaubles

People are really strange. We have had a car parked outside our house for a month now. Reported to the police/ council as abandoned they are not interested as long as taxed and insured, technically it's legally parked although not roadworthy and just annoying for those that live here. Neighbours managed to track down the owner but they were very aloof and have no intention of moving it for the near future 🤯

We had this. Someone broke the window, released the handbrake and pushed it into the middle of the road. Police had no option but to arrange removal. No idea who done it but I'm glad they did!

We blocked them in when it happened to us. It was the dickhead boyfriend of my neighbour who has their own drive but for reasons best known to themselves uses it as a sitting room and has a sofa and rug, and collection of children's toys, on it. DH asked him politely to move (we had 2 cars at the time, DH's was newer and bigger so went on the drive and DS parked over the bottom of the drive usually). He refused. DH was a little firmer. He refused and started to laugh. DH parked right behind his car and blocked him in, then when DS came home, the pair of them fucked off out to see DSS, taking the car keys so I couldn't have moved the car even if I wanted to The boyfriend had to wait hours. Never did it again.

Blocking someone in (even on your own drive) is still very problematic. Technically, you can still get into trouble for blocking their access to the public highway (yeah, I know, the world's gone crazy). Whatever you do - don't touch their car, or spray anything on it etc.

I don’t like to say this and absolutely don’t agree with it, but I’m fairly sure anyone is actually legally allowed to park their car on your driveway...

I saw an article about it in my local paper only a few months ago.

I’m not sure it is legal to pay tow companies to move them, I think you can clamp but only if there is a sign there first warning no parking and you will clamp parked cars.

You can't get in trouble unless you are obstructing the public highway. You can get in trouble if you block a dropped kerb, for example. However if you have a double length driveway and someone parks on it and you block behind them, both cars are on private land and you are fine.

No, they aren't allowed to park on your driveway. It's trespass, but it's a civil matter and the Police won't be of much help other than to try and persuade the idiot to move.

@PurpleWaterBlue

"Excuse me"

"Where do you think you're going?"

"I just told you that is MY private parking"

"Move it"

"NOW"

Firmness is required here I think.

I do have less sensible options that the cheeky fucker definitely would not like but I don't think they'd be super popular amongst the civilised of Mumsnet, so best to stick with sensible firmness I think.

This is exactly what I did do. It was a workman at a neighbours who "thought I was at work all day and he would only be a few hours more." And "he couldn't move to my neighbours spot as he had got his tools set up on it" neighbour had gone out, never found out (didn't care) if neighbour knew or not.

When they come back, tell them that car is your husband’s and he’s away with work for two weeks, back on 12th July. And you have no spare keys. Say you tried to tell them but they walked off. And close the door on them.

@FlippertyFlip80

If I could do a diagram, I would but I don't know how!

This is the best I can do:

Houses. 5 private Spaces

5 private spaces Space they
could have
parked/moved to
but didn't.

This is like a bad haiku in lieu of a diagram and I LOVE it 😂