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?!?

1. Not your problem
2. she could have come round to apologise and tell you
3. why did her father leave it there?

Ridiculous! Are you CF? 😬🤣🤣🤣

I don’t even think there was an elderly father who forgot to leave the keys. That was her made up story to her a bit of sympathy for being a CF. She said he was confused and thought it was her garage - despite her garage block being across the green from ours and also mine having my door number on big bold letters.

She found your door to bang on... She could have found you and asked before too.

Ahh yes I saw them all and was spoiled for choice! Thanks again 👍🏾

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It’s crazy, it happens to me frequently and is so annoying. People either don’t care, feel entitled to park where they like or don’t understand the common courtesy of not parking in front of drives. I live in an area with high, recent immigration and people just don’t respect the fact that you don’t park in front of drives.

I live in an area with high, recent immigration and people just don’t respect the fact that you don’t park in front of drives.

I live in an area with virtually no immigration and CFs park across our drive all the time, to go to the shop directly opposite it, even when they could park one car length back without blocking it.

@bignosebignose fair enough, that sounds annoying. In my situation it’s always my recently arrived neighbours who park over my drive. When I challenge them they are always confused and say there’s no where else to park. I have to tell the same people over and over again. Then they move, new people move in and I have to do it all over again. It’s annoying. I know it’s wrong to notice that the common thread in this situation is that the people are newly arrived economic migrants but unfortunately it’s the case in my situation.

It does but I guess since I'm reading through the thread some kind person will just tell me because it's not hard to do. I'm going to watch out for your name on all threads and ask questions as I assume it annoys u 😘

I don't think you get MN.

Is it the kind people part, have I got that wrong in assuming there's kind people on MN?

Why we even still discussing this? I asked a question, a kind person answered and others got their knickers in a twist. Now let us get back to the main topic 😁

What part of being "kind" involves stalking other posters to annoy them?

It's not the asking the question that posters object to; it's being rude, calling posters "girlies", amongst other things.

Stalking? Girlie's? Wtf u on about?

If the driveway is yours then they may be trespassing:-
The introduction of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (‘PCSAC’) on 28 June 2022 makes trespass, in some cases, a criminal offence punishable by imprisonment of up to four months and/or a fine of up to £2,500.
An offence will be committed under the PCSCA, if a person over the age of 18:

• resides or intends to reside on land in or with a vehicle (including a caravan) without consent; and
• fails to leave and/or remove their property (or re-enters the land) as soon as reasonably practicable when asked to do so; and
• has caused, or is likely to cause ‘significant’:
• damage to land/property/the environment;
• disruption to the use of land/supply of utilities; and/or
• distress via ‘offensive conduct’, such as the use of threatening words or behaviour.

I like the idea of blocking them in then getting conveniently drunk.

Get it towed away or push into middle of road then police will come deal with it

It is illegal to park on someone’s drive, however it’s only a civil matter, so you’d have to sue them for trespass which I expect no one would ever bother doing!
It’s so cheeky…. I would want to follow them home if they do it again … then pop a note through their door saying if they park on your drive again you’ll start leaving a car on theirs!!

Yes @SEMPA1234567 get into your time machine and go back and do this 🙄

prop up a large long nail against one of their back tyres, and I can guarantee they won’t rush back to park on your drive again!

Block them in - a 1 ton bag of sand should do it 😁

I live in an area where neighbours blame immigrants for everything, and those same neighbours show zero outrage at actual criminal offences committed by non-immigrants.

@HammerTimeNC I get annoyed about crime in general, doesn’t matter who does it. Is that ok? Am I then allowed to notice the correlation between the parking across my driveway and the newly arrived people on my street? I don’t think they are criminals but I do think they don’t really care about where they park. Obviously just talking about my own experience. I hate having to pretend that it’s not the reason. It drives you crazy having to ask your own neighbours repeatedly not to block your drive. You lose the will to be so politically correct about it all.

Let the air out of their tyres! No criminal damage. Just a massive inconvenience. And when they turn up, tell them to never park on your drive again.

So which nationalities are you referring to as CFers? As you don't want to be politically correct, just spell it out.