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getting sick and tired of people parking across the bottom of my drive and blocking me in. There's a Vauxhall Corsa there now and were about to go to bed as we have to be up at 5 for work. What do we do if its still there in the morning? There's plenty of space to park without blocking the drive, its just plain pig ignorance. Think I might phone 101 and give them their reg number.
 
Get it towed!

Tell 101 you need to get out of your drive and you need it moved.
 
got a land rover? If so, just drive out....
 
chris954 said:
getting sick and tired of people parking across the bottom of my drive and blocking me in. There's a Vauxhall Corsa there now and were about to go to bed as we have to be up at 5 for work. What do we do if its still there in the morning? There's plenty of space to park without blocking the drive, its just plain pig ignorance. Think I might phone 101 and give them their reg number.
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Call the police. It's an offence to block someone in. If it's still there you wake the whole street up banging on their door to make them move it.

Neighbour used to do it until a couple of people blocked her car in so she was late for work.

Councils also do white line painting across drives to discourage it. See if your council does. Usually deters people from blocking you in. I had it done. Worked well apart from the odd complete bell end.

Unfortunately all the other ideas involving silly string, letting tyres down, sticky labels, paint splats and bird poo on the door handle are probably criminal damage although satisfying ways of fighting back.
 
As said, I believe it's not an offence to block someone from getting onto their drive, but it is an offence to block them from getting off. Call the police....and good luck
 
antihero said:
As said, I believe it's not an offence to block someone from getting onto their drive, but it is an offence to block them from getting off. Call the police....and good luck
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Best to tell them the driver is not wearing a seatbelt... they will rush over if they are like our local lot!
 
I called 101 just before I went to bed last night ,they said they would get in touch with the owner and tell them to move it. If it was still there in the morning I was told to call back and they would have it towed away. Sure enough. 15 minutes later the owner appears and moves it. I've used the 101 service a few times now and have been highly delighted with the response I have had. Well done South Yorkshire police. Let's see if word gets around now that you don't park across peoples drives.
 
Unfortunately a lot of people who do this will have an extremey bad attitude if challenged about it - which is non too surprising if you think about it.
Last week at around 0900, I was driving out of our vuillage, and I had to negotiate all the school run cars which were double parked on the pavements. There was a hold up, because one of the mums had left her four wheel drive parked across someone's drive, and the person was trying to go to work. Worse still, the mum had left a small child in the front of the vehicle. Anyway, after about five minutes the mum came back and an argument started, so as I knew the person who had been blocked in, I went to see what was happening. The language from the mother was unbelievable, considering that she was totally in the wrong, and she ended up threatening the resident with "putting her windows in".
This is obviously a pretty stupid thing to do, because she has to drive here every day, and her vehicle may be marked out for some "special treatment", and there were plenty of people who were witnesses to the incident.
I don't know if the resident is going to get the police involved, because to be honest they don't seem to be interested in responding to anything around here, and the crime rate is not that high.
 
Got two houses near us that have not long changed owners. Each house holders been trying to claim the road space outside the house to park even thou they have drives. They both got a surprise when they woke up one morning to find 3 tickets on there cars. One for illegally parking on the pavement, one for double parking and potentially blocking the road, and one for three points and fine for having defective tiers. Turns out a neighbor had to call a ambulance out and the driver was not happy the road was almost blocked so called the police out to see what they could do. A few other people in the street got tickets as well for pavement parking or too near or on junctions.

As pointed out a drive (with dropped curb) give's you right of access OFF the property but does not give you right of access ON to the property. The only exception to this is if you apply to have a white line painted across your drive. This can cost around £500 and give's you a number to call for a tow truck to remove the vehicle.

Another idea is to do what a street near us that is close to a sixth form collage has done is to protest to the council to have resident only parking areas brought in and the rest yellow lined and white line for those with drives.
 
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Ive never heard of this 101 service. Is it national? What does it cover? Thanks.
 
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DorsetDude said:
Ive never heard of this 101 service. Is it national? What does it over? Thanks.
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It's a non emergency contact number for the police. I don't know if it's been rolled out across the country yet but in my experience it's far better than the old way of contacting the local police station.
 
Cool thanks.

[EDIT: Quick google and it does appear to be UK wide. Good stuff]
 
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We used to (and still do) get this at my parents house, as its next door to a junior school.
Usually its confined to 9am and 3pm, but on occasion people seems to park there all day, even though there is plently of room elsewhere on the road.

One time in particular, I needed to go out, and a car was right accross the back gate, blocking the driveway.
My mum went to the shcool, but they didnt know who it was, so I called the local police station and asked what my rights were. They dsaid I couldnt do anything really, but theyd send an officer over to assist.

Sure enough, an officer appears 10 minutes later, and my Dad asks him whats the legality of jacking the car up and wheeling out of the way.

The officer said if its an emegency and you need to get out, as long as you dont damage the vehicle, its fine.

So we got two trolley jacks, one at the front and one at the back and wheeled it a few yards down the road, when the officer suggests going a bit futher. :D
We oblige, and push it over to the other side of the road about 30 yards away.

Just as we are walking back to the gates, a man appears looking somewhat confused and agitated.
The officer asks whats wrong and he says his car has moved down the road, whats it doing there?

With that, the officer writes him a ticket for parking too far away from the curb ( he was a good meter away outside our gates) and advises him to be more careful where he parks in the future!

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Several occasions I'd been blocked from getting into the drive, so I'd just park my car as tightly adjacent to theirs as I could to block the drivers door and then go inside and wait for the ineveitable knock at the door.
It amazing how people think its their right to be allowed access to their car door, but cant see the same logic when I explain I want the same access to the driveway. :bonk:
 
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