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?!?

We really need a diagram, where is the diagram? 😱

4 trolley jacks, pick the car up, move it somewhere where they'll get a ticket....

Or, talk to them, be polite and you may find your driveway was sold by an unscrupulous online parking service and yiu can ask them who in order to stop it happening again... Or, even come to an arrangement and make some money yourself?

Sorry I don’t understand the layout OP, I think we need a diagram In all seriousness block them in and give them a bollocking when they sheepishly come to the door!

@SEMPA1234567 someone did this to me recently. It’s a huge driveway and I think they thought it was for other homes as well. I just parked in the middle of it so they couldn’t get out. They rang the bell after a short time 10 mins or so of me parking. I answered the door, eventually. Then told them I was busy and couldn’t move car right now. Told them to just wait. I’d try within the hour. I left it as long as I could stand. Probs only 15 mins and then went out and moved it.

Go for a walk with a plastic bag. Collect as many dog shits within a 15 minute walk as you can find.

Return home and deposit shits all over offending car windscreen & door handles. Extra point for smearing into air vents.

Everyone wins. You get to make a point without any proof it was you. The neighbourhood gets a load of dogshit removed and the car owner learns not to dump his car on someones drive.

Pressure wash your drive, flower pots, bikes etc. It makes a really mess of any cars nearby.

The passive aggressive thing to do here is to scatter bird feed over the car so that it gets bird crap all over it.

The only foolproof thing you can do to stop people parking on your drive is to get a gate that locks. There are loads that can be opened remotely. Obviously that's expensive, but it depends on how annoying it is to you to have someone parking on your property.

This.

Where's our diagram?!

Block them in and leave a note on their windscreen to say to knock on your door if they want to get out.

Is there a chance this is one of those JustPark things where they've either got the wrong drive, or your drive has been illegally advertised as a place where people can park by some scammer?

A friend of mine used JustPark to park her car near an airport when she went away for work for a week. Turns out the drive she booked no longer belonged to the person who was renting it out. Luckily her DH was at home when the police called to find out why their car was on someone's drive miles away. He had to go and move it.

A live parking thread. I hope your dh gets to block them in. it seems the only way to deal with people, who take the mick.

I’d phone 101 anyway in case the car is stolen/ no mot/ tax etc.. then write out a bill. Parking in my driveway £XX per day or part of day. ( or £xx per hour). Put it on their windscreen.

I’d block them in, then claim to have had a drink when they knock.
But I’d accidentally drop a nail by there wheel as well so when they reverse they have a nice (hopefully slow puncture) surprise that they need to get fixed

We live on an equestrian property and I have had people park on my driveway, blocking all access in and out and even on my yard. Sometimes, they even stay with their cars and have a little picnic! I always locked the gates if they refused to move - we have large animals moving to and from paddocks, I need to lock up for health and safety reasons. Once, I even had some picknickers open the gate to my horse's corral, park up in it WITH THE PONIES IN IT and refuse to leave - they moved fast enough when my dopey gelding started to chew on their windscreen wipers. Funnily enough, no one has done it for awhile! As PP have said, block them in with a note and make them wait. People like this don't care if they put you out but they REALLY care when you do it to them!

Find out how much it would cost to park in the nearest paid car park to you. Block them in. Leave a note saying you'll move when they pay you double whatever the parking would've been. If they refuse, drink voddy directly from the bottle in front of them and inform them they're now stuck until you're sobre.

OK, you win! But seriously, WTF?! Get dogs, @TheWayTheLightFalls, big, scary dogs!

For everyone saying block them in, unfortunately I can’t! Without stoping the neighbours getting into their spaces or blocking the road! Hope digram helps!!

Someone has recently started parking on my Mum's drive. There's a regular event near where my Mum lives and she allows us to park our car on her drive without asking her - we usually pop in and say 'hello' afterwards. Said event is happening again soon, so if I get to my Mum's someone else is parked, we're scuppered as police put cones and notices up and it'll be too late to park anywhere else, so I'd behind the said car. My Mum knows where we'll be as it's locally wellknown when these events are on with, but it's about 25 mins walk and I genuinely won't hear my phone speakers, so whoever would have to wait.

Is it clear they ate private parking spaces?

Is it obviously your parking space?

It seems an odd parking layout ?

So is it not your drive but the pavement in fact? It doesn't look like a drive from your pic but maybe im being thick. Do you own the space in front of your house?

Could they be a visitor of your neighbours? I would knock on either side to find out and say that you'll be blocking them in until the other driver returns, but that if they need access in the meantime to let you know.

ah so to me that doesn't look clear at all.

We have the same set up outside our home, and the spaces are in fact not privately owned (Although they appear to be) so can see how the confusion could happen.

I’ve put note on window, cones either end of car (just to cause them a bit bother when they do want to move! 😂)

I'm loving all the ideas!! Very funny! I’m just genuinely perplexed as what (without breaking the law!) you’re meant to do! If the police and council won’t do anything I don’t see why I ever need to pay for a parking space again! I’ll just use other people’s drives! 😂