" Parking across a dropped kerb is a parking contravention for which a Penalty Charge Notice can be issued. This means if you park in across a dropped kerb you are committing an offence unless you have permission."
I found this on -line. Maybe if the person concerned was reported and got a ticket, he may think twice.?
@zugenie, a chap living some way from us puts out two traffic cones in the road to save his parking space outside his house, comes home, parks, and puts the cones in his garden. To date I don't think they've yet been nicked unless he has a steady supply!
I picked some up for free via our local Freecycle some years ago which we use when we're cutting our front hedge (it's a narrow lane).
Are you near a school @rowlandscastle444? They're the worst offenders in my experience. I remember when my younger daughter started school, and there was a huge problem because the school bus couldn't get round the corner to get to the new parking bay they'd put in. The school is in the middle of a residential area, and the bus has to go round the back of it because of the nature of the layout and width of the roads. Some bleeping ******* had parked on the corner where it made it's final turn, so it couldn't get round. The residents all have bollards outside their houses now too, because of these insufferable morons. Clearly, the children aren't capable of walking fifty feet... There's a private school quite near us too, again in a residential road, and it has chevrons, and every kind of white line in place, to prevent people parking right at the gates. Does it stop them? I'll let you guess....
I've seen them park on the double yellow lines outside the primary school entrances too. One of them nearly ran into me when walking along to the gate with my daughter - right up onto the pavement and nearly into the line of railings at the pedestrian entrance. I could see the look on the faces of two mums who were standing there because they could see what was happening. I swear some of these people would drive their ruddy children right into the building if they could.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We have a few households here that sell cars from the street. None of them are registered in their own names, none are taxed, insured or have mot. These cars are parked wherever they please with no attention paid to regulation. Parking tickets are put on and they get chucked on the floor, eventually the cars get clamped, over night the wheel gets taken off to remove the clamp and it all carries on again. As nothing is in their own names, no consequences other than to the people that are inconvenienced by the selfish behaviour of others
Hi @Fairygirl We have schools in both directions, within walking distance, but this is someone who lives along our road, but has no thought for others. It's a repeat offender, despite the request not to park there. I will have words if it doesn't get moved, because my wife wants to go shopping. If the owner thinks we can get round, they are very much mistaken. What makes it worse, is that they have their own two garages, two off-road parking spaces, and room in front, yet still park here, to save them a walk of less than one minute.
I find all this incomprehensible. In Belgium and in France if you park in front of someone's garage or driveway you can be towed and fined so it doesn't happen.
If the local police or relevant council service can't or won't help the answer seems obvious to me - park in front of your own driveway rather than on it and if that space isn't free when you get home, park in front of the drive of persistent offenders till they get the message.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Perhaps you could put a very sticker poster on the windscreen, the sort of thing that might take 30 minutes to scrape off, politely asking them not to park on the white line.
The problem here is that if you phoned up a company to get the vehicle towed, you'd have to pay the fee, then hope you'd get it back. I totally agree though - you should be able to phone the council and get them to act on your behalf, but they wouldn't be interested. Too busy spending taxpayers' money on their own vehicles to drive a few hundred yards... I think the reason people don't do as you suggest is because of the inevitable repercussions. I really don't want my daughter going out to work at 5 am and finding her tyres slashed or something.
The selfishness of people is unbelievable @rowlandscastle444. I can also understand the difficulty of confronting anyone. There's no men in my house either, so that always makes it harder to deal with. Perhaps it would be worth contacting a garage though, and paying a fine to get it taken away. You never know.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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I found this on -line. Maybe if the person concerned was reported and got a ticket, he may think twice.?
I picked some up for free via our local Freecycle some years ago which we use when we're cutting our front hedge (it's a narrow lane).
I remember when my younger daughter started school, and there was a huge problem because the school bus couldn't get round the corner to get to the new parking bay they'd put in. The school is in the middle of a residential area, and the bus has to go round the back of it because of the nature of the layout and width of the roads. Some bleeping ******* had parked on the corner where it made it's final turn, so it couldn't get round. The residents all have bollards outside their houses now too, because of these insufferable morons. Clearly, the children aren't capable of walking fifty feet...
There's a private school quite near us too, again in a residential road, and it has chevrons, and every kind of white line in place, to prevent people parking right at the gates. Does it stop them? I'll let you guess....
I've seen them park on the double yellow lines outside the primary school entrances too. One of them nearly ran into me when walking along to the gate with my daughter - right up onto the pavement and nearly into the line of railings at the pedestrian entrance. I could see the look on the faces of two mums who were standing there because they could see what was happening. I swear some of these people would drive their ruddy children right into the building if they could.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
As nothing is in their own names, no consequences other than to the people that are inconvenienced by the selfish behaviour of others
We have schools in both directions, within walking distance, but this is someone who lives along our road, but has no thought for others. It's a repeat offender, despite the request not to park there.
I will have words if it doesn't get moved, because my wife wants to go shopping. If the owner thinks we can get round, they are very much mistaken.
What makes it worse, is that they have their own two garages, two off-road parking spaces, and room in front, yet still park here, to save them a walk of less than one minute.
If the local police or relevant council service can't or won't help the answer seems obvious to me - park in front of your own driveway rather than on it and if that space isn't free when you get home, park in front of the drive of persistent offenders till they get the message.
I think the reason people don't do as you suggest is because of the inevitable repercussions. I really don't want my daughter going out to work at 5 am and finding her tyres slashed or something.
The selfishness of people is unbelievable @rowlandscastle444. I can also understand the difficulty of confronting anyone. There's no men in my house either, so that always makes it harder to deal with. Perhaps it would be worth contacting a garage though, and paying a fine to get it taken away. You never know.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.