Car Parking Annoyance!

[Head_in_the_clouds]

My Gran who is 91 next month lives with us and has a wheelchair. Our house is on a corner and our gate and front door to our house is at the side. We have often had trouble with people parking their car across our entrance but they are usually gone after a day at most. At the beginning of the week there was a mustard coloured car parked across our gates which lead to the front door for a day and two nights. This meant I had trouble with my Gran and the wheelchair and when my Auntie takes her it makes transferring the wheelchair and all the equipment really difficult. After two nights I got up to see the car was gone but now it was replaced by a silver car and the car was parked so close to my car it was practically touching it. The silver car has now been there for three nights with no sign of anyone coming near it. Today I had loads of shopping from Tesco to bring in and as my Dad was parked in the next space I had to park on double yellows, unload my shopping and then park my car on the other side further up. I know that it isn't illegal to park in front of someone's house but there are plenty of other spaces that don't block peoples front door and the path leading to it. We do have a drive way which is where my dad parks his car but I cannot park there because it is too far away for my Gran and the wheelchair (we have to transfer her and we would have to push the chair all through the garden and its not on one level so we would have to keep transferring her in and out the chair.) Sorry, its just a rant! I'm buying some signs to say disabled access needed please don't park across entrance. I would just think if you are going to park your car for days on end you would have the common decency not to do it right across someone's front door! Hoovering my car with the extension has been a nightmare today!

 

[natalielongstaff]

i would leave a note on the windscreen politely asking them not to park there again.

 

[Head_in_the_clouds]

How ironic! Five minutes ago a car pulls up outside our house and drops a woman off and she gets in the silver car. My mum explained about my Gran, and the woman was fine about it and said she won't park there again, it would appear she was visiting for a few days and decided to park her car outside of the town centre so she wouldn't have to pay car parking fees .

 

[mandymouse]

I know exactly what you mean, though my problems are only for 20 minutes twice a day, as I live near a school and the parents just park their cars willy nilly over my drive. It's not a big deal, but it's a blooming nuisance

 

[natalielongstaff]

I would hate to live that close to a school hun, i know what its like near ours and it must be a real pain for the residents

 

[gemmybear83]

You could have a ago complaining to your local Council as if you have a dropped kerb for your parking it is an offence to block the entrance.

I know at work the Traffic section have started enforcing this were previously they didnt, I'm not sure if this is nationally or varies bu each local Council. I know at ours we have traffic wardens - where once complaints have been made in a specific area they launch a "hit".

If its a problem throughout the street you can raise the possibility of the street becoming residents only where you have to wear a badge to park there. Around schools/shopping areas we have lots of streets like that,

 

[bazzanoid]

You could have a ago complaining to your local Council as if you have a dropped kerb for your parking it is an offence to block the entrance.

I know at work the Traffic section have started enforcing this were previously they didnt, I'm not sure if this is nationally or varies bu each local Council. I know at ours we have traffic wardens - where once complaints have been made in a specific area they launch a "hit".

It's a national thing - they recently amended the law to make it illegal park across a dropped section of kerb where a drive or other access is present. THIS INCLUDES your own drive - traffic wardens do not differentiate between you parking in front of your drive on the road and anyone else, and you can be ticketed for it, and have no grounds for appeal.

The only exception is if you are having work done on your driveway and cannot physically park anywhere else. If you get a ticket, you can contest it including a photo of your car parked outside with the un-accessible driveway in the shot as proof, taken on the same day as the ticket. However, individual councils are different on that, so even though it is excellent grounds for appeal and a technicality on the law, they may still turn round and stick the collective finger up at you.

I hate traffic wardens.....

 

[gemmybear83]

I hate traffic wardens.....

I would just like to confirm I am not a traffic warden I just sit in the next section to the Transport Engineers

Seriously though - great post very knowledgable!

 

[stitch&ariel]

That sounds like such a pain! I would feel too rude parking in front of someones drive like that! My parents have a problem with a neighbour blocking their drive, he has his own drive but for some reason doesn't want to park on it so he would rather park in front of their house!!