Fed up with cars parking outside of my house how do i stop this?

rookethorne

What I find really annoying is people who park outside their houses, half on the pavement, opposite a junction and obsuring the entrance to a drive.

The police won't take action because the pavement is council property, and the council won't take action because the area should be treated as having double yellow lines as being opposite a junction.

The really gripping point is that all the houses concerned have masses of off road parking available, virtually in their back gardens.

snetterton

You can't stop them. It's a public highway. You have no right to park outside your own home unless you have your own driveway.

charlotte r

If it's on public property or a public highway then there's nothing you can do about it. Just because it's outside your house doesn't mean you're entitled to the space anymore than anyone else.

Good Egg

move to a lighthouse

MANCHESTER UK

Anybody can park on any road where there is no official restriction, when it does not cause an obstruction or in the opinion of a Police Officer is not contravening any Contruction & Use Regs.

dels replies

If the cars are on the public road you cannot stop them providing they do not obstruct an entrance or driveway. You can only put up signs on private property.

caroljohnson13

everyone has a right to park where they want
theres nothing you can do
unless there are yellow lines n u can report them

jimgdad

Get a really old rusty and rough looking Land Rover, go Green laning and come home smothered in mud.
Then park right up against the the usual culprit.

jay

not much you can do about it, unless you have disabled parking, or the car is obstructing other vehicles.
you cant just put no parking signs up yourself. if you have a real problem, maybe the police would give you some advice?

MaryBeth

Not much you can do since it is not your property.

Mr_Smelly_Underwear

Depends on who is parking there. If it's commercial drivers you might have some leeway. Example, a garage used to occasionally park cars outside my house (on public road) as they wasn't enough space in they own garage. I complained to council that they were illegally expanding outside their business planning permission. Also, that the garage was using the street as unpaid security. Guess what happened? garage soon stopped.

People park outside my house. So, if they're not genuine bona fide street guests (most usually leave their car and go to work), I have a few surprises.

If I know what time they'll collect the car, I lean a ladder on their car and put dirty rags on the bonnet pretending to fill my car with them - I then apoligise to the owner!

I've rested my bum on the bonnet of the car pretending to use my mobile and get off the car totally ignoring the owner, with my loud angry shouting (yes it contains F and p words) argument on the mobile. Nobody likes to interrupt an argument.

I've also played football against my old car (I've 2 cars - one's a banger for work) and made sure I've kicked the ball hard against the door of my car. This impresses him/her no end.

Get 2 cars and try and block him in, then drink whisky or your favourite tipple, therefore, you can refuse to move your car as you're drunk. He'll have to call the police to move the car. The police can't force a drunk man to drive ;-)

Place a piece of wire down his window, he'll think someone tried to steal it - watch his face and he'll think twice about parking there.

One of the best is to have a gang of kids around the car - mostly my son's football pals.

Then if you're really P'ed off, there's the "slightly" illegal tactics.

nick a load of police cones and slap them there thou peeps will prob move em
if its a public highway u cant stop them realy if its yr own drive they're parking on then thats a total different story

They can't park in front of (or block access to) your driveway, but the road is for the public - driving and parking. You don't own it, and there's nothing you can do.

Petrovska

Move.

grandriverrat2005

depends on your local council rules you will have to check with them ... i live in a tearced street and have the same prob and there is nothing i can do about it there is no dbl yellows out side my house and i guess people pay for there car tax so i guess i just have to put up with it ... so just check with the council or put your own cones out

fishing66833

Unless you take it up with your city council, there's nothing you can do about it. The city council can vote to limit, or regulate, street parking. But it is a two-edged sword. You, and any friends/relatives, also have to abide by the same limitations on parking. It can end up being one of those things, like "be careful what you wish for, you may just get it".

Bardic

Let's get this right. In the UK no-one (including yourself) has any right to park on the public highway except in a designated parking place. That's a fact. So none of us has any "right" to park outside our properties, though we all tend to do so, and there's nothing we can legally do to prevent anyone parking where we think we should be able to.

Actually, in a street near here the residents were getting fed up with the same thing and tried various ploys like cones, trestles, oil-drums etc to "reserve" spaces. In the end the police came along & told 'em to remove them or be charged with obstructing the highway!

oldmancripplecrotch

Have them towed away at the owners expense after a few times of this they will quit doing it.

lucyjake3

you cant stop them parking there! you don't own the street, and no you cant put up no parking sings unless you are disabled and have permission from council

WelshLad

Outside your house is NOT your property, your deeds/mortgage or whatever is not included for the pavement or road. People like you make me sick and angry.

cuddlyclaud

Move . I think in your case a desert island may be appropriate.

PAUL F

Sell up and move somewhere without a road so nobody including you can park outside your house.

This is a typical submission from someone who I bet parks their own vehicle on the road somewhere else in the country every day and does not think that is wrong!!

Elle J Morgan

You take a chill pill and get on with your own life

Garacaius

Where I live anyone can park along the roadway unless the road is marked as " no parking ". I also don't like people parking outside my house, especially when I have lived places that I also parked outside and we had to jockey for places. Now I have a short driveway and park my car in my backyard. I can put it anyway I want there, facing any direction that I like. LOL

Citizen DeCat

Potato in the exhaust, my friend.

None

Blow them up, buy traffic cones and put them up with fake road works signs, make ur own signs and put them up. It depends where u live though. If it is ur land/parking area then you should make signs or get a cone and put a sign (laminated) on it and put it in the parking space.

claire

If you have a car you can park it outside your house otherwise you can try putting a polite notice up

Without-style

It is not illegal to let someones tyres down, providing there has been no criminal damage, honest truth.

Had a friend in a similar position, of course you'll have the car stuck until they can sort it out, but if it is a reoccurring problem who the hell in their right mind is going to keep parking their car in the same spot?

Although of course putting up no parking on walls, and challenging anyone who parks on the front are safer more morale ideas, though from that experience there is a constant "What am I doing wrong?!" response. There seems to be an increasing lack of consideration.

You could also club together with a neighbour or another member of the household with a car and essentially block the person in by parking close either side.

kows4sale

Roofing nails work well.....

Peanut butter Jelly Time!!!!

place spikes outside your house. LOL

mem

I have the same problem, however is not my neighbours doing it, its a drop in centre where a home care service go if they dont have a call. They are delibratly parking outside of my garden gate, which causes problems for me to get my pram out of the gate, they never park anywhere else and the building they are visitingis other the other side of the road where there is never any cars parked

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