CF parked on my driveway!

[SEMPA1234567]

CF has now been parked on my driveway for at least 3 hours! Husband home soon and won’t be able to park!

My question is what can you actually practically do about this, apart from giving them an earful if you spot them returning to their car!! 😂

A quick google says

1. the police won’t do anything (they might if it’s stoping you getting off your drive but not if they’re preventing you accessing your drive)
2. My areas police website says try contacting the council . The councils website clearly states they will not remove vehicles or issue parking charge notices for private drives

Also you are not allowed to block them in as this is an offence to stop them leaving and obviously you can not damage their car as this would be criminal damage.

Assuming you don’t want to break the law 😂 what are you meant to legally do if someone parks on your drive??

Has anyone successfully got any type of justice against a CF?!? Or can I now just go around being a CF never paying for parking and just using other peoples drives?!?

Food colouring in vaseline under the door handles. No damage, just very inconvenient and messy.

@YabaJaba and do you get pissed off when you visit another country at all the lazy foreign words people will insist on using?

Whether it's a sport, a hobby, a discussion group - You join a community, you learn the terms.

Get a gate for the drive. Put bins or something across it until you do.

But nothing much you can do this time. Is it a big problem right now? I live in a terraced street without drives and people manage to park OK.

"CF has now been parked on my driveway for at least 3 hours!"

Correct me if I'm wrong, but in social media here, CF means "close friend".

If it is a close friend's car, get on your phone and tell him/her to please move their car or not park there unless he/she is visiting you.

It's a diabolical liberty to use your driveway access for a free park otherwise.

On Mumsnet CF is cheeky fucker

What are you on about?

🤣🤣🤣

So actually not private spaces at all unless you’ve seen something in writing to confirm they are allocated to each house? What you are saying is you’ve used it as if it’s private for years but now someone is parking there - by the sound of it they are well within their rights to do so.

Look at the diagram - it isn’t a private drive.

Even if it is not a private drive in this case, I think the law needs to change so that those who do without permission either can legally be blocked in, or better still, points on a driving licence.

It’s not blocking any driveway - there is no driveway. It’s a parking space outside their house.

If it’s not private who they be getting permission from?

Did they return OP?

And that would still be criminal damage.

so did they leave?

@SEMPA1234567 please can you clarify the point @Jennyathemall was making? Does the parking space actually belong to you or is it just a space outside your house? Your original post says the car is parked on your drive, but that is not what your diagram shows. Do you actually have a drive that the car is blocking? (No drive shown on your diagram.)

samarrange · Yesterday 22:56

That's very close to the plot of this Dutch TV commercial:

Ha ha! That's brilliant and I actually laughed out loud!

So actually not private spaces at all unless you’ve seen something in writing to confirm they are allocated to each house? What you are saying is you’ve used it as if it’s private for years but now someone is parking there - by the sound of it they are well within their rights to do so.
From the diagram it looks to me like the parking space is what used to be front gardens in older houses, even more so because there is hedging around the spaces. Every single newish housing development around where I live is like that now. No front garden but one or two car parking spaces immediately in front of the house, a path to the front door and some space for the bins. It's completely clear from the layout and design that these spaces belong to the houses they are in front of. I'd never park in them unless the owner lets me.

Did they come back?!

That post was great. I remember that one from 2021.

What happened when they came back @SEMPA1234567 ?

It's happened several times to friends of mine in South London. Always an untaxed vehicle or one where the vehicle description don't match the vehicle (i.e. on cloned plates). Police aren't interested. They obviously don't confront the drivers, because confronting the kind of people who drive around in untaxed cars or with cloned plates in South London is not a healthy lifestyle choice.

This. To me it's obvious they are private. Not sure roads service or councils are putting down decorative stones on parking spaces or putting hedges around them.

OP I wish mumsnet would pay you to draft all the diagrams for the Mumsnet parking dramas!

OP if you have lots of trees/birds nearby you might get lucky if they do a huge dump on, oh, the car parked on the drive 😄

I guess OP has not come back because the diagram shows it's not actually a driveway, but a space on the (public) road .... still, a dramatic title gets more interest doesn't it?