CF parked on my driveway!

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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?!?

@JandLandG

Just for you
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13966937/Shocking-moment-father-dumps-car-strangers-driveway-school-run-traffic.html?ico=article_preview_xp_mobile

Puerile posts show an ignorant mind.

I've accidently parked in the wrong drive via a parking app but realized as I was walking away so was able to move it. I wouldn't mind betting this is what has happened here and the person will be mortified! Yes check with neighbours to see if they rent their drive out in this way.

Insults are the last resort of the intellectually baffled.🙂

Not if you drive an automatic

A couple of posts up there ^^ explain

This!!! It happened to me and i blocked the car In and refused to mive until police came to record the incident and issue a warning.

That gave me ammo to use against that driver if they come back and park here again - especially since said driver got loud and aggressive, baging on my front font door yelling for me to hurry up and let her out! She had been parked there a whole 6 hours and I only have the one space - which fool did she expect to sit and wait for her return?? Not me!! Because she got aggressive and started threatening - it turned into a criminal matter and she is now not allowed to park or come anywhere near my address which has Ring camera audio and video now.

Reason she gave police was she was visiting relatives and they went out for a meal even though said relatives are on the same parking scheme as the rest of us who live in the area!!

We now have a 'No Parking' cone we place in my space when i go out, but living near to a secondary school, the teens sometimes try and take off with it on their way, so now occasionally I poke my head out the window shouting "Oi!! Whattareyoudooiiing!!" Which scares the living daylights out if the passing kids 😅 the reactions are 'you've been framed' worthy i tell thee!

A Hack i saw though is to fill the cone with stones or cement.. but then how the bloody hell would i be able to move it 😭😭

Parking is the worst problem for anyone with a drive that is not gated! If its not others trying to use it, you're shouting 'Oi' at the kids to leave the cone alone 🤣🤣

Block the car in and if they get loud about it call the police and do not engage until they get there - record!! But only your front garden view so you dont end up in other trouble.

Excellent!

@Mumof3PrettyBoys
"We now have a 'No Parking' cone we place in my space when i go out, but living near to a secondary school, the teens sometimes try and take off with it on their way, so now occasionally I poke my head out the window shouting "Oi!! Whattareyoudooiiing!!" Which scares the living daylights out if the passing kids 😅 the reactions are 'you've been framed' worthy i tell thee!

A Hack i saw though is to fill the cone with stones or cement.. but then how the bloody hell would i be able to move it 😭😭"

You could get a sack trolley.
https://www.screwfix.com/c/storage-ladders/sack-trucks/cat831506

Brilliant!! It stores away well too by the looks of things so Its def worth investing in at this point. Thank you for this @WomenInConstruction

This is exactly what I need!!

You should try taking your own advice. The tone in your comment is rude.

There are loads of different ones on that link btw... From what you said you maybe only clocked the top one?

Simple..... Put up a sign saying private parking - £100 an hour, for the first 2 hours, then £1000 per hour from then on. You might not be able to enforce it, but it will give them a shock 😂

I think I might be worried that another CF was renting my drive out on a "park in my driveway" app and getting money for it. Then original CF may be an innocent bystander.

You could always rent your driveway out when you're not using it so that at least you get some money for it.

this

@godmum56 😂🤣😂🤣😂

Maybe as another pp mentioned fill the cones with stones or maybe sand. They won't move as quickly then though you would need some type of trolley to move them. Worth it to see them struggle with them.

Funny, because I would bet against that being the case. If they were mortified they would have knocked and profusely apologised.

Bet it is a neighbour visitor! They saw you take photos. That’s why they scurried away sharpish

What’s a ‘girlie’?

Enlighten us, O Wise One. Shed the light of your immense wisdom on us, poor mortals as we are.

Of course you could have directly addressed the posts you think are puerile, or the posters who you think are immature girlies - but you prefer sarcastic sound bites to facts.

@Startinganew32

No you are meant to leave it in neutral unless on a steep hill.

At least that's what they taught me. Nobody told my MIL so one day she left my rental car in gear on holiday after borrowing it and I forgot to check, started it up, and trashed the front left corner on a nearby wall.

I know this isn't a helpful comment but I've seen a few of these posts now and I just can't understand why some people feel it's ok to park on other people's driveways! WTAF!

I live in a walkway and have a garage in a block. The garages all have house numbers on so there’s no ambiguity as to who’s is who.

One day I got home from work and there was a car parked outside mine. I knocked on a couple of neighbours sorts but no one knew who it belonged to. Expected it to be gone after few hours but it was still there in morning. Problem is my partners car was in the garage and he couldn’t get it out.

We called the police and they said there was nothing they could do for 48 hours 🤷‍♀️ their only suggestion was try your neighbours. I left a note on windscreen telling them to move it as they were blocking our access to garage.

Well the car hasn’t moved that evening or the next morning so I called police again and this time they came round, did some checks and arranged for it to be towed away.

A few days later I had a very irate woman I’ve never seen before who apparently lives around the corner hammering in my door screaming that she’d had to pay to get her car and I owed her the money. I just laughed at her and told her it was private property and it was her own fault. She was almost hysterical telling me her elderly father had dropped car off forgot to leave keys and she’d had to wait a few days for him to post them. Whether that’s true or not it’s not my issue.

She told me she would be sending me bill - good luck with that!