Someone parking across your driveway! What's the law?
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A friend in Richmond, London, paid a lot of money for his house and parking space; no, a freakin' fortune for it, actually.
Some time back, a woman used to park her VW Golf mostly outside her house, but also blocking the entrance to my friend's driveway. (She did this so she could effectively get 2 parking slots where there was really only one.)
Anyway, fast-forward through the various arguments that you can imagine happened and the Golf is one day towed away, fair warning having been given that this would happen if the driveway was still being blocked.
He was taken to court and initially got the verdict his way. That his property was being taken out of use by an obstruction, which he thought would be the end of it.
Not a chance. Before the case was closed, the woman successfully argued that 'excessive force' had been used to solve the problem and HE got the costs awarded against him and was told to pay her for vehicle reclaim expenses and her distress!!!
He later got even, but how the hell does that work then?
Some time back, a woman used to park her VW Golf mostly outside her house, but also blocking the entrance to my friend's driveway. (She did this so she could effectively get 2 parking slots where there was really only one.)
Anyway, fast-forward through the various arguments that you can imagine happened and the Golf is one day towed away, fair warning having been given that this would happen if the driveway was still being blocked.
He was taken to court and initially got the verdict his way. That his property was being taken out of use by an obstruction, which he thought would be the end of it.
Not a chance. Before the case was closed, the woman successfully argued that 'excessive force' had been used to solve the problem and HE got the costs awarded against him and was told to pay her for vehicle reclaim expenses and her distress!!!
He later got even, but how the hell does that work then?
Edited by Beemer-5 on Friday 21st December 15:19
There is usually a specific offence (Police/Local authority can take action) when someone is blocking your access to the road from your property. There isn't for the other way around (blocking you getting onto your property). That would require you taking civil action against them.
Edited by vonhosen on Friday 21st December 15:27
He moved house and then found the biggest, tattiest, pile of rubbish and rust he could find, which had a year's MOT.
Then parked it right across the driveway of the woman concerned.
(It was a 380,000-mile Volvo estate, btw.)
A note went through her door, to say that it wasn't going to be there permanently.
It would be missing for about 4 hours per year, for the MOT!
Classic OR WHAT!
Then parked it right across the driveway of the woman concerned.
(It was a 380,000-mile Volvo estate, btw.)
A note went through her door, to say that it wasn't going to be there permanently.
It would be missing for about 4 hours per year, for the MOT!
Classic OR WHAT!
Beemer-5 said:
He moved house and then found the biggest, tattiest, pile of rubbish and rust he could find, which had a year's MOT.
Then parked it right across the driveway of the woman concerned.
(It was a 380,000-mile Volvo estate, btw.)
A note went through her door, to say that it wasn't going to be there permanently.
It would be missing for about 4 hours per year, for the MOT!
Classic OR WHAT!
Quality revenge there Then parked it right across the driveway of the woman concerned.
(It was a 380,000-mile Volvo estate, btw.)
A note went through her door, to say that it wasn't going to be there permanently.
It would be missing for about 4 hours per year, for the MOT!
Classic OR WHAT!
Beemer-5 said:
He moved house and then found the biggest, tattiest, pile of rubbish and rust he could find, which had a year's MOT.
Then parked it right across the driveway of the woman concerned.
(It was a 380,000-mile Volvo estate, btw.)
A note went through her door, to say that it wasn't going to be there permanently.
It would be missing for about 4 hours per year, for the MOT!
Classic OR WHAT!
Then parked it right across the driveway of the woman concerned.
(It was a 380,000-mile Volvo estate, btw.)
A note went through her door, to say that it wasn't going to be there permanently.
It would be missing for about 4 hours per year, for the MOT!
Classic OR WHAT!
If that's true, I think PH might even stump the cash for the MOT each year
Nice and legal tooJasandjules said:
IIRC if your car is off the drive and you cannot get back onto your property then an offence has been committed, BUT if your car is on the drive and you want to get on the road but are blocked, no offence has been committed..
Twisted world.
I thought it was the other way around??Twisted world.
Jasandjules said:
IIRC if your car is off the drive and you cannot get back onto your property then an offence has been committed, BUT if your car is on the drive and you want to get on the road but are blocked, no offence has been committed..
Twisted world.
I had thought that it was the other way round. (You have the right to use the road, and somebody preventing you from accessing it is guilty of obstructing the carriageway. But you don't have the same right to access your land from the carriageway.) But I agree it only works one way (and now I'm not sure which), so a good idea to be clear which way round it is before you get too far!Twisted world.
Edited by GreenV8S on Friday 21st December 17:07
Scraggles said:
weird laws, find potatoes stuffed up the exhaust seem to make a point when cars blocking driveways or just bump / pick up and move it into the road ?
When the camel's back finally snapped, I dragged the damn thing into the road & called the BiB who towed it away. Result.Jasandjules said:
IIRC if your car is off the drive and you cannot get back onto your property then an offence has been committed, BUT if your car is on the drive and you want to get on the road but are blocked, no offence has been committed..
Twisted world.
It is the other way around.Twisted world.
thetrash said:
Jasandjules said:
IIRC if your car is off the drive and you cannot get back onto your property then an offence has been committed, BUT if your car is on the drive and you want to get on the road but are blocked, no offence has been committed..
Twisted world.
I thought it was the other way around??Twisted world.
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