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?!?

So by your own diagram it is 'blocking' your driveway, not 'on' your driveway as stated for dramatic effect. Still out of order and annoying though.

I had this once in a private parking space in an underground car park under our flats.

There's actually very little you can do about it.

Any damage you do to the car counts as criminal damage just as it would if they were not trespassing, and also they know where you live and where you normally park your car and you already know they are not a restrained and highly moral person so you probably don't want to start anything.

I strongly considered a message in shaving foam but ended up sticking to strongly worded notes on the windshield.

So, they've kind of half-parked in your space (judging by your diagram), which tells me they know they're being cheeky and are just banking on being gone before the homeowner comes home (and maybe they will be, but they're still a CF because they have no idea what time the homeowner gets home!). If I were your DP, I'd parallel park next to them so they can't get into their driver's door, and leave a note on the windscreen telling them where they need to come to with their explanation and apology. 😉Also, given your artistic talents, maybe you could make a wooden sign on a stick ("Private parking space: do not obstruct") and push it into the gravelled ground at the front of the space after your DP leaves for work every morning or when you go out in your car together?
And your assumption is correct, there's nothing you can do about this, short of taking someone to court for trespass if they keep doing it: https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/legal/parking-on-someone-elses-driveway/

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5068790-theres-a-cf-parked-in-my-drive?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share

You could but you would have to pay for any damage and cleaning

Buy some spike strips that the police use to stop cars. Chain it to your driveway behind their car. Your driveway, you can do what you like. If they CHOOSE to reverse over it, their problem.

AN infrequent visitor to MN at times over the years, but this has astonished me.

A car - an item worth thousands of pounds - is left, unwanted, on someone else's private and exclusive property causing great annoyance and inconvenience ?

Come on!

Show me some pics, pls...I don't believe this.

Who'd take that risk?

WHo'd let them get away with it?

And this is coming from me...I hate paying for parking. I've parked in sketchy places all my life. No way would I leave my car like that - you'd have to be mad.

Current parking arrangement at one of my workplaces is 12 quid or the industrial estate nearby.

Industrial estate every time for me...but never on someone's drive.

Are we talking like a private estate where you need a parking permit or something? Not a piece of private and exclusive property?

Otherwise, I don't believe this....I demand proof!!!!

Let down there tyres it's called cutting your nose off to spite your face but I'd still do it.
Some posh woman parked on my mum's drive once and I blocked her in all weekend. It was fantastic.

Don't be ridiculous. It doesn't cause any damage, it's just a pain in the arse to wipe off.

If they have the cheek to try and bill the OP for cleaning she can offset it against however much she wants to charge them for the use of her driveway.

Entitled CF is trying to find somewhere to park. They weigh up the chances of the driveway owner causing them inconvenience and/or criminal damage. Most of the time at worst you'll get blocked in and have to ask to be let out. Brazen CFs do not care about getting a bit of a gobful. It's risk assessment, and CFs by their very nature take their chances, relying on decent people doing decent things. No one thinks they're going to take a hammer and smash up CFs car, because THAT would be wrong

JandLandG

There used to be a doctors surgery near us (closed now) and hardly a day went by without someone parking on our drive, we saw them on the security camera

On the odd occasion we were in we’d go out and although the odd one was apologetic most were of the opinion that as they were “GOING TO THE DOCTORS” (yes shouting) or even “TAKING MY CHILD TO TO THE DOCTORS” that somehow made it ok

I can see you’re finding it hard to believe but it does happen

Maybe make some enquiries with the neighbours just in case. Someone parked in front of my drive blocking me in afew weeks ago. I wrote a snooty note and stuck it to their car, then realised it was a nurse doing a visit to a neighbour, and subsequently called an ambulance for them as they were unwell.
I had to run out and grab the note off the car before she got to it! I just hope it didn’t show on my neighbours ring doorbell!

It's half on, half off. Not merely on the driveway but savvy enough to prevent the drive owner from parking alongside.

Are you my neighbour?

I came home to find a van on my parking space in front of my garage. Doors were open but no sign of where they were/which house they were at. I posted on our estate facebook and got a shitty 'I would go and politely ask them to move' How can you ask someone to move if you have no idea where they are?

To those people who said "it doesn't happen" well it does. Workmen came to do some jobs for my neighbour who actually lives opposite me in a c shaped cul de sac. The end of the cul de sac is our 4 garages, two each. The houses are opposite each other, one each side and the space in front of the garages is owned by the garage owner. I used to work part time and I got home to find the workmans van and all the kit, saw horses, tools, materials, radio spread all over my drive with sawdust and fag ends everywhere. When I asked what was going on, the boss man said that my neighbour needed to have access to his drive so they thought they'd use mine as I was at work and could I not go out again? I didn't swear but I made it clear that he was going to remove all the tools and the van and clean up the mess immediately and leave. CF asked me where he should park instead. I still didn't swear.

I used to work in the NHS doing home visiting. We all had laminated signs to leave on the dashboard with the NHS logo and the hospital's name with "NHS staff visiting" on it.

@Katiesaidthat

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

I didn't do that because I wanted the car gone asap as I was paying to park on a meter!

Be wary of your own vehicle if you leave a note, especially a nasty toned note.. don't want your car keyed.

If someone is CF enough to park on someone else’s drive, they are sure would be willing to go after the homeowner for any damage to their car even if it was just lipstick.

Honestly the law is very weighted to the car owner and not the property owner. The owner could have it towed at their expense but would be liable for any damage that happens during the process

Plenty of people park opposite ours then bugger off all day. Busy but narrow main road, so they park across the pavement so pedestrians can't pass and still traffic ends up queuing to file past in each direction.

wow.

your actual drive.

off the road?

in front of your actual house?

where's this?!

It's like the bloody Wild West out there!!!

I'd just let the tyres down...I wouldn't damage the car, but tyres down, deffo...

Lipstick isn't damage. It can be wiped off. It just inconveniences the owner.

Trouble with letting the tyres down is that it will take them longer to move it.

The other technique I am planning to deploy the next time this (inevitably) happens is sprinkling breadcrumbs on the car

= bird poo

If a government could create an easy way for people to obtain legal remedy for this sort of thing I think a lot of people would be grateful.

It's the sort of thing which makes people feel that following the rules is for mugs. It's corrosive.