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?

All this reminds me of another reason I hated living in London - narrow bloody streets with cars parked either side - grrr, always lucky if we could even park on our actual street, never mind near the house!

We moved house simply due to inconsiderate people parking in front of house and obstructing our driveway at all hours of the day/night often with thumping music blasting out and wking DS up...just to get to off licence over the road...they were too lazy/too sh*te at parking to park on oppostite side where parking bays were.........I used to go and tell people and try and shame them (no use) ...reported to council and police....3 weeks after we moved they put bollards up to stop people!!!

Gwenick - yes the bin is an obstruction and you could be prosecuted. Technically they should be left on the boundary of your property, not the pavement.

Is my local council the only one that is really on the ball about this sort of stuff? Round here you have 24hrs leeway around collection day for your bins to be out - outside of that and you get fined.

Every where I have lived that uses wheely bins insistes that they are outside your proporty befroe they empty them.

In most cases that means that they have to be on the pavement.

Our bins have to be left on the edge of the pavement and that is where the bins bins leave them once they have been emptied.
If I were to leave them "on the boundary", ie acrss the driveway entrance (and not everyone has a driveway), then they wouldn't take them.

And I use the plural intentionally - we now have three bins, a green one for ordinary rubbish (once a week), a blue one for recycling stuff (once every forur weeks) and a brown bins for organic waste (every two weeks in summer, four weeks in winter). PLUS a big box for glass bottles (every two weeks).

Have spoken to DP about this and what I have said is right. The council need to put those signs up Gwenick, if that is the case, as the police won't know about that and may well slap a fine on you. Then you would have to appeal blah blah blah. So your council (who IMO are irresponsible and lazy for allowing this - makes life easier for them) need to pull their finger out to save their residents possible inconviniences.

hehe - feeling 'naughty' now - hmm bins on the boundary.........now how do I do that?? Balance on the little wall, or hang out of the gate??

Don't know if ours have a 'leeway' thing or not - but they've recently started the 3 bin thing and the brown bin is NEVER taken on the day they say they'll take it.........so all the brown bins on the street are being left out for days on end

can't same I'm overly worried about them slapping a fine on..........theses streets have been like this practically since cars were invented (well almost) - the little 92yr old up the street has lived on the road nearly half her life and there's ALWAYS been cars parked on the kerb LOL.

Trying to get hold of the police in this town is a nightmare........if your sensible and need the police, but it's not a 999 call - they're only open during the day, and even then "sorry no-one around to help at the moment" - think street upon street of residents parking on the pavement is the last thing they've got to worry about

There have been times when I've fantasised about having a buggy with wheels like Boudicca's chariot with all the knives - that would make the pavement parkers think twice about making me squeeze by!

Food for thought

Gwenick, I meant that your council shouldn't be so lax about pavement parking as it is potentially risking people's lives by forcing them out into the road. Not that every single instance of pavement parking always causes a fatality, of course it doesn't.

Round my way, there's one dropped kerb which is always obstructed by parked cars. Really pisses me off as there's only pavement on one side of the road and wheelchair users HAVE to access that bit of dropped kerb or they are forced into the road (it's a really odd corner where the pavement is so narrow round the corner of a building you have one dropped kerb to get off that stretch of pavement then the other dropped kerb to get back on across a drive). They don't just have to travel a few feet on the road, it's another 30 yards before you get to the next dropped kerb. Mildly irritating for me with a buggy, but a major risk for wheelchair users - and there are plenty along this stretch of road.
Am feeling v. empathetic with wheelchair users at the mo as I accompanied one for an article recently and was amazed by how many obstacles she met - and how many people walked into her as if she was invisible.

Once lived in a block of flats that had 6 parking spaces and someone parked over the entrance (on the pavement). I called the police but they said they couldn't do anything as it wasn't causing an obstruction in the road!

So dh and I went out and pushed it into the road (they had left handbrake off and it wasn't in gear!) and called again. It was moved in half an hour

Gwenick, I meant that your council shouldn't be so lax about pavement parking as it is potentially risking people's lives by forcing them out into the road.

Well it's only a narrow road, and if our side of the street has a lot of parked cars on the kerb most people with pushchairs/wheelchairs just automatically walk down the otherside of the road where there's never ANY cars parked on the kerb. It's not like we're talking about a busy mainroad here....... They're not being 'lax' these streets pavement parking is allowed, pure and simple..........although I could have reported a lorry today - big 7.5 delivery lorry parked on the kerb - now that IS illegal for 7.5 tonne vehicles to park on the pavement .

That story is terrible, that's what would happen in our street if everyone parked on the road...

anyhow - if you see my 'poll' thread you'll see that most of us MN'ers' find dog poo MUCH more annoying than cars parked on the pavement

And amazingly no-one said I was the most annoying in the list

Bit more info, some others had a notices put on their car windscreens too. I had a visit from next door who told me this.
Apparently there is a "special" police women that lives at the end of the cul de sac.
Anyhow that solves that mystery for me.

Funnily enough dog faeces aren't really an issue where I live ? but pavement parking is. And really does cause major problems for vulnerable groups such a wheelchair users. Ironically, had to push the buggy out into traffic on the way back from nursery today because some thoughtless oaf had parked on the kerb ? illegally because it's double yellow lines there anyway. Git - definitely obstructing wheelchairs too.

MM I'm glad to hear that it wasn't 'personal' to you - that must be a relief

And really does cause major problems for vulnerable groups such a wheelchair users.

So what of the wheelchair users that park on the kerb - because otherwise they'd have to park several minutes from their house????

They will simply have to report themselves for parking on the pavement, Gwenick.