AIBU to block in school mums parking on my driveway?

[Applepiesmum]

i live down the road from a school and during the school rush parents park everywhere it normally worse in the afternoon at 3pm

I work from home and usually park in the visitor pay outside my house so my partner can park on the driveway he gets home 3.30-4pm

however recently people have been parking on my driveway last week I caught someone pulling in knocked on their window and they argued with me saying they need to pick up their child eventually they did move but moved to where they were just half way blocking my drive way and halfway blocking my neighbor so no one could access it!

I didn’t bother confront them again but in future I’m just thinking to block them in… is that too petty

I have reported it to the school but all they’ve said is they’ve already asked parents not to block residents in so I’m not sure what else to do.

(if I did block anyone in it would only be for 30 minutes to cause a bit of stress and a lesson learned)

@QuertyGirl That is so true - but sadly not going to happen. Our local primary school is 1/2 mile away - village location, pavements all the way. The parking is horrendous. I live on an estate of 40 houses - lots of families. The only parents who walk their children to school are those who don't have a car - and that's one or two! And the argument that 'people need their car as they're going straight to work' doesn't apply as most of them drop the children and come straight back home (as they did before WFH was really a thing). It's like a rally up and down our road every morning and afternoon!
All the traffic problems at school could be sorted if these folk, and those who live even nearer, would just walk.
There used to be a walking bus but no one wants to volunteer to run it - the original parents/grandparents no longer have DCs at the school.

Someone did this on my mums drive so we blocked her in for a week. She had done it before and it really upset my mum. So my brother came round in his sons car and blocked her in. When she knocked on my mums door saying she had never done it before and was so sorry we were really sympathetic but explained that my brother had had to leave his car there as he was going on holiday and had wanted to leave his car on the drive. We were so sorry but he wouldn’t be back for a week at least!
My brother is fiercely protective of my mum and utterly furious. He didn’t move the car for 8 days! Even the husband came round to ask. But what could they say!? They’d parked on private property. It was glorious. I think the husband was furious that this massive Porsche 4x4 thing was blocked in by this dodgy 20 year old Fiesta!
People are rude and entitled. They park in a way around schools they should be embarrassed about.
Block them in.

Put some sort of sign up saying "£10 a minute for parking" and add in all the necessary legal blurb, install one of those bollards - pop it up when someone parks and then go out to collect your 'takings' when they return for their car. You may as well make some money from the CFs.
A hotel next to the school the dcs went to got fed up of parking and did this - put a sign up to say non-residents could park for £20 between 2.30-4 and then they would drop the barrier at 3pm each day and charge everyone trying to get out.

Shame if you, coming back from the shops and trying to pass their car, accidentally dropped one of your eggs and it landed on their windscreen.

Block them in, and have a glass of wine. Or two. Bottle..? 😈

@Catspyjamas17

What about them?

It's not anybody else's problem but their own.

We're parents, presumably competent adults.

We each have the ability to make decisions on how to live our lives.

If we make decisions which require daily driving and parking in urban areas, that's our own fault. We do not have the right to impose ourselves and our cars, on others like this. Cars pollute, they take up space, damage infrastructure such as pavements, kill and injure thousands.

Why are people setting their lives up like this? I can understand people driving on the school run in rural areas or if disabilities are a concern but most of, should be taking some responsibility and not setting up our lives up like that.

Who the hell do people think they are?

Well they should have thought of that, it isn’t the OP’s responsibility. They can get a taxi if it’s that desperate.

I would do it Op. “Illegal” my arse. As if the police would bother dealing with a parking dispute

@premicrois

Oh, the poor oppressed drivers!

Local PCSO’s round here are usually pretty hot on parking around schools. I’m disappointed by the schools response. Another option if you’re brave enough would be to take a picture and post it on local community groups with the registration clearly visible.

Ah excellent, not a single sensible response. As per.

@bigbluebus

Can the school not get involved with the active travel campaign?

Google it- you could start a local revolution!

I did similar once. I was due to work away but had forgotten something so nipped to the shop at school time. Came back to someone parked on my drive! I had a train to catch so parked up and left pretty soonish, this was Monday afternoon and I was due back Friday afternoon. Apparently they were going mental but my car was there and my keys were with me.

If someone parks on a private drive without permission, doesn't that count as trespass?

Our local school decided to have children being traffic enforcers, they tried to stop people driving up the road where the school was at school time. People lived there and wanted to go home. I think it lasted about a week.

I have reported it to the school but all they’ve said is they’ve already asked parents not to block residents in so I’m not sure what else to do.

Block the entrance to the school so they can't take deliveries, tell them you've told yourself not to do it but it's still happening.

Parents start parking 40minutes before school ends outside DDs school. Anywhere but a legal parking space...

I do have some sympathy... but there is legal parking 5 minutes walk away!!

You all sound so vengeful - such pointless anger.

The OP is causing an issue by using the visitor space at the exact time it is needed for the school run when she has an empty drive sitting there.

If parents are only doing the school run then it is a brief moment of madness with the cars needing to park up - either free up space by using your drive, or tolerate them being in your way for a brief period of time.

In our village there is very little safe public parking so lots of people offer their drive to parents to ensure the pavements and walking routes are kept clear. Why not pull together to help a problem.

You're not only not helping to find a solution, you're actually part of the problem.

Times have changed since most schools were built. The vast majority of parents now work, many housing estates are built without a local school, public transport is shocking and schools have been marketised and things like Ofsted have led to parents "choosing" schools that are not their closest. Mumsnet has many threads where parents are encouraged to travel further for "better" schools and this leads to more driving their kids to school too.

Tough.... Should have thought about that before being a cheeky fucker.

What authority do you think is going to give a flying fuck about this?

There is a lot wrong with you.

Just block the entrance to your drive with cheap plant pots with bricks in them or plant in them now spring is here.

Move them when husband coming down road.

Obviously someone could still park on the road blocking your drive as it's empty (don't think that's an offence) but the school run should be over by the time your DH gets back and if a car is still parked there, go into the school with pictures of the reg plate and ask them to put it in the newsletter.

Posted too Edin

Why have you put things in quotation marks and implied they are my word or opinions

This.

You're not exactly squeaky clean yourself. Park on your own driveway, and your husband can park across it, or vice versa. It's not a hardship to move your own car to get another one out, but it's entitled as hell to permanently use a visitor bay as an extension to your own driveway.

@premicrois

Point proven 😂