Anyone ever reported someone for pavement parking outside their own house?

[MistressMary]

Well someone has done this to me.
Fair enough if it was in town or heavy built up area and with only one pavement on the road.
But outside in a quiet cul de sac with narrow road with pavement on either side of the road?
Hmmmmm..
So now park on the road and difficult for neighbours to reverse out of their driveway.
Fair cop gov though a bit petty maybe?

None of that gives a driver the right to cause an obstruction Gwenick.

or if possible give up your front garden as a driveway.

What front garden????? There's only one house on the street with space for a drive - and actually has one - that's the vicarage!

I tell you what I'll drive across my garden. Anyone got a slegehammer handy to knock our garden wall down?

but is it legal to park on the road so that you completely block it up???

if i were you gwenick, i'd want double yellow lines along one side of the whole street. no passing problems then!

Gwenick, surely you don't mean they have to walk for a few minutes to get to their home? Annoying perhaps but not the end of the world. Perhaps these families should be looking at cutting the number of cars they have.

You'd have to be pretty stupid or selfish to obstruct the road so you can park outside your house.

if i were you gwenick, i'd want double yellow lines along one side of the whole street. no passing problems then

I wouldn't - as would most of the other residents with children (and the eldery ones) .

It's actually NOT a problem round here - and no-one that I'm aware of has ever been reported for blocking the street (the binmen usually get an earful from the some of the residents though LOL). And the police obviously aren't that bothered by it either, they often use our street as a 'cut through' between 2 main roads

Gwenick - I live in the same sort of street - terraced houseing, some turned into flats so more than one household in each house, and cars galore. Parking round the corner is no big deal. I completely agree that the road should not be blocked in case of emergency, but the solution is not to block the pavement, surely?

This is why we have campaigned for controlled parking in our street - for one thing, all the wrecks being 'repaired' will disappear, as it won't be worth the owners paying for the permit for them. likewise no permits will be issued for the untaxed, uninsured cars that add to the congestion.

Blu - our local council have a lovely big crushing machine that they use for untaxed vehicles

Absolutely not - you have to park with due care to allow access, not park withihn 10' of a junctionn etc, whether there are yellow lines or not.
But it's also illegal to park on the pavement.

Is the pavement v wide in your road? perhaps you could get bays set into it?

Gwenick, surely you don't mean they have to walk for a few minutes to get to their home? Annoying perhaps but not the end of the world. Perhaps these families should be looking at cutting the number of cars they have.

Yes I do - which I think is very unfair on eldery people and people with young families. If they park round the corner on the next street they're forcing someone on THAT street to park further away from their house thus creating a 'knock-on' effect. And most families only have one car..........certainly most of the people on our 'section' of street only own one car - and for people like my DH (who is on his way to Birmingham at the moment, for 2 seperate appointments) they ARE a nessecity.

no - 'average' sized pavements.

And as I've already said there is NO issue with it round here, people have just accepted that's the way it is and live with it! (although DH gets an earful if he's working from home and has parked DIRECTLY in front of our gate)

The council offered to make it a oneway street - to make traffic flow easier (this was just last year - a month or so before we moved to this house) and the residents turned it down ! I think they're mad

oh and there's no wrecks on untaxed cars in this area - we're posh round 'ere you know

Gwenick, afraid I'm another person completely anti people parking on the pavement. Never phoned the cops but have left nasty notes. It's illegal, selfish, and dangerous to small children in buggies and people with disabilities - wheelchair users and the blind, for instance. It also damages pavements, which costs all of us in council tax, and further endangers pedestrians (again, costing the council money if people trip and sue).
God, that does sound pompous, but drivers who think it's their right to break the law and push pedestrians around really do my head in. Sorry.

I reckon all you 'anti-pavement' parkers must live in nice houses, with gardens at the front/off street parking!!!!

I'm TRULY amazed at the opposition to it! I DON'T drive, I walk my two boys everywhere - and that includes have to come home from nursery with DS1 at the end of the school day when they entire street is chock-a-block with cars - it's never occured to me that the cars I walk round everyday are illegal - and it wouldn't even cross my mind to complain!

What I REALLY hate having to manourvre (sp) around/cross the road for it 'obstructions' - such as the pavement being dug up, people standing in the middle talking, piles of dog poo, tree's growing in the middle of paths, etc etc.

Incidently - is it also illegal to block half of the path up with a bin????

Er, Edam, gwenick doesn't park on the pavement - MM does, and gwenick sticks up for people who do
Blind people is a valid issue.

But don't get me started on overgrown spiky hedges obscuring the pavement...

Can you imagine how you would feel if there was an accident where someone was trying to get around your car? just not worth it. Also you are more likely to have your car damaged, i wouldn't worry if my buggy bashed a wing mirror for example.If it meant being able to squeeze through and not cross a busy street, why should i consider them when they haven't considered me? i know. BUT it shouldn't be there in the first place.

I used to report pavenment parking all the time, and the best one of all, triple parking in front of a lowered pavenment crossway.

Highlight of my blinking day it was

ooo - yes forget the 'hedges' - they're a pain too.

As for the blind - both my mum's siblings are registered blind and their dogs do an excellent job of walking them 'round' cars.............it's that blasted dog poo their not trained to 'avoid'

this happened to my dd's portage worker and the old guy concerned PHONED THE POLICE

Where I used to live some residents kept blocking the street (where housing was only on one side, was a street which the tube station was on - ie, very busy) with an articulated lorry.

Gweinck, not all blind people have dogs.

You can report overgrown hedges and the like to your local council. If they are anything like ours they will send a warning letter and if the hedge doesn't get trimmed by the householder within a month, then the council do it.