Do people have any parking rights over the public road immediately outside their house?

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I am asking as today the woman opposite us came and complained that one of the guests at my DD1's birthday party was parked outside her house and demended she move the car (which she did).

Thing is, the last time one of my visitors parked outside her house (my midwife just prior to my homebirth) she accosted her in the street and demanded she move her car. I'm irritated because I would understand her problem if we consistently parked outside her house rather than ours maybe, but I'm talking about two occasions (and special ones at that!) in the space of nearly a year!

She's obviously very, very petty. But does she have any legal rights to this area of public road at all?

(She also has a drive capable of housing two or three cars, BTW!)

what we have taken to doing is parking DH's car straight across the drive that way I can get out if needed just by moving his car... The council said that if they did put a bay in anyone could use it if they had a badge, and I have noticed many people park round here, for the hospital, and then put a badge up, yet its free to park in the hospital carpark if you have a badge....

you need a solid white line on the public highway across a drive to make it an offence to park there. then if someone does block your drive (if you are parked in it or not) you can call the police and report the car for causing an obstruction. if they actually come out and ticket the car depends on how efficient your police authority is.

interestingly if someone parks ON your drive there is nothing the police can do about it!!!

parking is a big issue down my road as i have a small community hall opposite my house. also the people who use the parking next door always knock on my door if someone has blocked the drop kerb............she knows what vehicle we have (its a sign written van) and i've also pointed out to her she needs to phone the council and ask for a solid white line to be put in, otherwise they are not breaking the law by parking in front of her 'drive'

Sparklymieow, my brother is a wheelchair user, and people were parking in front of the house on the pavement so close to the garden gate that he couldn't get out in his wheelchair. The council came and to paint a yellow wheelchair the width of the garden gate on the road to stop this happening. ... But they got it wrong and painted a big one in front of the driveway gate ... so then they had to come back and paint the one in front of the garden gate. It worked for them!

I was about to start a thread a bit like this!! For the past week every evening a white ford van has parked outside our house. I thought it was strange as I know none of my neighbours have a white van. Then I noticed that the guy is actually SLEEPING in the back of the van! He crawls out of the back at about 8am and drives off. He's parked there again at about 8pm a night.... WTF??? Do you think I should go out and ask him what he's doing? I don't like the thought of some strange bloke sleeping in his van outside my door.
Maybe he's been chucked out by his wife? I find it all a bit dodgy.

Oops... that should've been 7am.

This topic get my blood boiling...we have 'issues' on our Street, houses across all have 3 car drives and garages, do they use them NO much to my annoyance..we have one car can we park on our street? NO.. who's is the biggest house on the street? mine, double the width of all the others, we are on the end so have a street to the side too, but still no where to park because of two and three car families/couples, we had a letter through from our local council stating they wanted to removed the flowerbeds in the middle of the street to allow further parking for residents, these flowbeds were put there for taffic calming resons'e as the Street is very wide compared to others, I totally disagree belive it of not as I want the neighbours to see sense and park where they should on their driveways and in their garages