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?!?

You’re new to Mumsnet aren’t you @JandLandG ?

Really ? My neighbour must have imagined the car that sat in her drive for hours last year and imagined the tantrum the CF had when she returned to her car to find herself blocked in .

What do you mean no one would do that? PLENTY of people do shit like this on a daily basis

Looks like a parking bay rather than a driveway. Does it actually belong to you or have you just claimed it for yourself?

@SEMPA1234567 Your diagram raises some questions in my Mind. I've seen what you said about clearly your parking space, but it doesn't LOOK like that from your diagram. It looks like the 'CF' car thought it was an inset layby for public parking and they have parked partly on the road and partly on the 'parking space' ?

Was it definitely part of your house and ground deeds when you bought the house and ground. Could be that they aren't actually doing anything wrong?

It might be a Just park app thing.

I had this for my drive and sometimes people would book to use mine as i didn't have a vehicle and accidentally park further up they street in someone else's drive because they didn't check they had the right address. I had to apologise to a neighbour about this and contact the app to ensure they made my details more clear.

Could this be similar for you do you think i.e. they should be parking somewhere else nearby?

@SEMPA1234567 He should block them in and have a couple of double whiskies.

There was a thread a few months ago, I think, of a bloke who did just that, to a family who live in the country. The householder did lock the gate, I think. There was then a stand off for a day or so until the coward sent his wife round to ask for the car. So some people are wiling to do just that. Unbelievably cheeky.

Bollocks!

Park on people's driveways?

Actually ON people's property?

Get lost!

Where?!!!

@SEMPA1234567 I should add, if they are actually on your private property you are absolutely entitled to block them in. It would be different if it wasn't your property but they are trespassing.

Someone parked on my private drive, in a city centre, so I had to pay to put my car on a meter as everywhere else is double yellow lines!

No neighbours knew who the car belonged to and I'd already had a sign made and installed saying "Private Parking for No 7 Only".

I was NOT happy.

I decided against blocking them in as I had a new car and theirs was very old and battered, so thought they may just nudge me out of the way!

I decided to keep a look out for them and tell them what I thought, but I missed them coming to collect it.

I was so frustrated with myself!!!!

I do wonder if this parking on people's driveways issue is becoming a thing because of sites like JustPark where people are hiring someone's private driveway. Easy to see how people could get it wrong sometimes.

Erm. South West London…

You asked exactly what I was going to. I'm really struggling with the idea that some random stranger would park on the drive of a house where it's blatantly obvious it's the drive of that house. I've seen newer estates where the gardens have no physical boundaries (sort of "open plan") and the entire ground surface (road and parking spaces next to houses) are all block-paved, so it isn't always obvious if a space belongs to a particular house or is just another part of the "road". 🤔

You should have lowered a tyre. Keep it in mind for next time.

Oh you sweet naive oblivious poster. People are dicks. Do you live under a rock? Or perhaps in the Highlands with the neighbours 10+ miles away?

There's one of these threads every other week. And as OP has pointed out, there's very little you can do about it. If the CF is aware of this and is willing to chance criminal damage, of course they'll park wherever.

There were cases where meet and greet airport car parks (the dodgy kind) were saying they were parking in secure car parks but just leaving them on random people’s drives.

there is very little homeowners can do if someone parks in your drive as it is civil matter

I'm fascinated by the mentality of people who will quite knowingly park on someone's private drive. How do they have the brass neck?

We're moving house, and one of the houses we viewed was a gorgeous listed town house in a popular riverside town. It had 2 parking spaces with "Private Parking" painted in 3ft letters in each space. Parking is a big issue for me when considering a property, and I told the owner this as we looked around. I glanced out of the window and a car was pulling into one of the spaces. I mentioned they'd got visitors and the owner looked and said no they weren't expecting anyone. A rough looking bloke got out of the car and the owner called from the window that it was private parking. He just said, don't worry I won't be long, and walked off. In that moment I knew I couldn't live there, and the owner looked defeated - she knew it was a deal breaker for me. I felt so sorry for her, but I had a feeling this wasn't a one off and I just couldn't be doing with it.

Show me.

Who the fuck would park on someone else's driveway?

And who the fuck would put up with it?

Parking outside of someone else's house in the street...yes, obviously.

Parking across someone's drive during school pickup for example...hmmmm, maybe.

But straight up driving up someone's driveway and leaving your car there..I mean, come on...that doesn't happen.

Who's that cheeky/ignorant to do it?

Who's that meek to let it happen without consequence?

I'd put some chocolate spread under the driver door handle so they panic and think its poo.

You could just put those collapsible/ lockable bollards in

Are you new to MN? It does seem to happen, albeit infrequently. Enough that extrapolated from MN to the whole country it's not that rare.

once the car is on your property it is a civil matter and you are responsible for any damage to it whilst it is on your property.

what do you expect people to do when it happens?

I just did a quick google and found loads of stories of people doing it

Block them in, then write, "£5 per hour to park on my drive, please have the cash ready when you knock on the door and ask me to move my car" on their window in lipstick.

Oh in that case go to town on their car with the lipstick. Write, "I am a twat who parks on strangers' drives" in big letters on every window and the back windscreen.