Neighbour's car parked on my drive

[Steffan]

Topbox said:

Is it causing a massive issue?

Have a chat when they return. I'm sure there is a valid reason.

There may well be a reason. Up to the OP if it is valid but I would suggest a well mannered approach is best. Magnanimous gestures are better than years of acrimony.

[Terminator X]

Block it in and wait for them to come over and ask you to move it, then explain to them why they shouldn't park on your drive. Alternativeley put a brick through his windscreen.

TX.

[anonymous-user]

People do make mistakes so try and find out what happened, starting a row with your neighbour shouldn't be the first option as you still have to live next to them.

If it happens a second time you can be rightly pissed off about it, I'm sure a scrappy will come and take it away because it has been dumped.

[rich888]

Terminator X said:

Block it in and wait for them to come over and ask you to move it, then explain to them why they shouldn't park on your drive. Alternativeley put a brick through his windscreen.

TX.

Haha, brilliant comment!

Alternatively it might just be a good idea to have a quick chat with your neighbour before moving to this level of negotiation. Now where's that brick...

[mybrainhurts]

Remove the car's wheels and put them in their back garden. You know nothing.

[Jasandjules]

So OP, what did you do? I'd have thought the easiest option is to park on their drive and await their return.

[simon1987]

just drag it off your property and dump it on the street.

[The Nur]

Scrap it. Or wheels in the back garden as suggested above.

[Tannedbaldhead]

Mr E said:

Block them in and go to the pub?

Youl'd think that would be perfectly legal and reasonable. BiBs don't. Very similar thing happened to me. Back in the early 1990s someone had parked their car in my garage to nip into the shops. (I parked in a wee garage under my townhouse in a city centre where parking was difficult)

I had popped back to the house to have some lunch, found it there, shut and locked the garage door and drove off back to work giggling.

When I got back plod had left a note in my door telling me to contact them "IMMEDIATELY". I did what I was told. Plod and owner arrived, car was freed, owner was ticked off for parking in my garage then I got a bking you wouldn't believe.
Plod can be out and out stes at times, it was all about depriving someone of their car when they, for all I knew needed it for an emergency, what if the person was very elderly or disabled. They then kicked off about taking the law into my own hands, had I any idea how much Police time I have wasted, didn't I consider how much something like that could escalate, potential of violence etc etc. They were genuinely pissed off and in need of a sense of humour transplant. Left me thinking I was lucky not to be going back to the station with them but afterwards, thinking about it, they hadn't mentioned one specific offence.

[telecat]

Tannedbaldhead said:

Mr E said:

Block them in and go to the pub?

Youl'd think that would be perfectly legal and reasonable. BiBs don't. Very similar thing happened to me. Back in the early 1990s someone had parked their car in my garage to nip into the shops. (I parked in a wee garage under my townhouse in a city centre where parking was difficult)

I had popped back to the house to have some lunch, found it there, shut and locked the garage door and drove off back to work giggling.

When I got back plod had left a note in my door telling me to contact them "IMMEDIATELY". I did what I was told. Plod and owner arrived, car was freed, owner was ticked off for parking in my garage then I got a bking you wouldn't believe.
Plod can be out and out stes at times, it was all about depriving someone of their car when they, for all I knew needed it for an emergency, what if the person was very elderly or disabled. They then kicked off about taking the law into my own hands, had I any idea how much Police time I have wasted, didn't I consider how much something like that could escalate, potential of violence etc etc. They were genuinely pissed off and in need of a sense of humour transplant. Left me thinking I was lucky not to be going back to the station with them but afterwards, thinking about it, they hadn't mentioned one specific offence.

Soundds like it was Plod's relative?

[4rephill]

Tannedbaldhead said:

Mr E said:

Block them in and go to the pub?

Youl'd think that would be perfectly legal and reasonable. BiBs don't. Very similar thing happened to me. Back in the early 1990s someone had parked their car in my garage to nip into the shops. (I parked in a wee garage under my townhouse in a city centre where parking was difficult)

I had popped back to the house to have some lunch, found it there, shut and locked the garage door and drove off back to work giggling.

When I got back plod had left a note in my door telling me to contact them "IMMEDIATELY". I did what I was told. Plod and owner arrived, car was freed, owner was ticked off for parking in my garage then I got a bking you wouldn't believe.
Plod can be out and out stes at times, it was all about depriving someone of their car when they, for all I knew needed it for an emergency, what if the person was very elderly or disabled. They then kicked off about taking the law into my own hands, had I any idea how much Police time I have wasted, didn't I consider how much something like that could escalate, potential of violence etc etc. They were genuinely pissed off and in need of a sense of humour transplant. Left me thinking I was lucky not to be going back to the station with them but afterwards, thinking about it, they hadn't mentioned one specific offence.

The offence committed will be "Obstructing access to the highway".

The fact that the car is parked on your property without permission makes no difference in the eyes of the Law, you have no legal right to prevent them accessing the highway.

I've got a neighbour who decided one morning to block in a car in our private parking area because it had no right to park there (the car belonged to someone from down the road who couldn't find a parking space outside his house and so decided to just park where he liked overnight).

The Police were called and threatened to arrest My neighbour, informing him that he had no legal right to restrict or obstruct anybodies access to the highway (much to the surprise of My neighbour! [TBH, he is a bit of a knob! When I first moved into My house he put a note on My car threatening to block it in and call the Police. I went round to see him face to face and told him to fetch the Police if he wanted to but he'd be a bit embarrassed when they discovered that My car was parked legally in My allocated space!] ).

The guy from down the road admitted he knew he shouldn't have parked there but simply couldn't be arsed to park any further away from his house (Lazy fr!), was advised by the Police not to park there in future or charges could be brought against him also (I'm not sure what the charges would be though?: Trespass?, public order offence?).

Whether they could bring charges or not, it did the trick because he's never parked in our parking area again (He does however tend to park on the pavement, right on the apex of a narrow hairpin bend outside My house, managing to restrict both the road and the pavement! )

[Retroman]

4rephill said:

you have no legal right to prevent them accessing the highway.

Does the person who parked on their land, inside their property have a legal right that prevents them from securing their building?
What if your garage had some personal stuff inside it, that might be of value and you had to go to work or even to catch your flight abroad?

[jbsportstech]

It's such a fine balancing act with some neighbours had a neighbour who used to park outside my house and in the spirit of getting along never complained.

One day I parked outside his house and he can round quite aggressive moaning so I moved it straight away.

Anyway next week I get home and his car is outside my house as he has visitors went over and asked him nicely to move as I had nowhere else to park which he did, that was it for being friends anymore as far is this muppet was concerned talk about double standards.

Next thing I know he is knocking on my door 4 hours after I moan my lane moaning I have left a tiny spec of grass on our shared path some people have very tiny egos!

[Jasandjules]

4rephill said:

you have no legal right to prevent them accessing the highway.

However, you MAY block their driveway if they are not there as they have no legal right to access their own land IIRC.

[anonymous-user]

Come on tom you're killing me.

[toerag]

stick fake plates on it, and call the police

[Nigel Worc's]

Just ask him/her when they return ,why ?

I think I must be lucky, we have the most fantastic neighbours, if this happened there would be a jolly good reason.

[Who me ?]

Jasandjules said:

However, you MAY block their driveway if they are not there as they have no legal right to access their own land IIRC.

Is that correct. I seem to remember a poster (possibly Streaky ) quoting amendment to legislation on decrim parking to allow the CEO to target vehicles blocking driveways with a dropped kerb.
I would wait to hear why they parked on your land,before any action. It's dead easy for something like this to get out of hand.
Bloke a couple of doors down has problems . My daughter often visits us and parks outside ours ,with mine on drive( Mrs Bucket terminology for paving slabs on front garden). Young lass with four kids ,some with problems lives opposite and has visitors of all sorts. One day ,one parked near "HIS" parking bit. Now, given that he has no dropped kerb , he's no beef. But ,no, he couldn't park outside in "HIS" SPOT, so he was straight round to mine to ask if the car parked in "HIS SPOT" was my daughters.

[mybrainhurts]

You ARE sitting in the right house, aren't you?

Just a thought.

[glasgowrob]

park behind them, works especially well if its a decent sized drive and your not blocking footpaths etc.


either that or stick something behind the car that will force them to chap the door and ask you to move. at least this way you'll find out what the script is