Car being deliberately blocked in when parked on a road

[STW2010]

I would be pissed off if I saw someone pushing my car along, even if they were obviously doing so with care. Not sure how the police would view it though.

[BarnatosGhost]

STW2010 said:

I would be pissed off if I saw someone pushing my car along, even if they were obviously doing so with care. Not sure how the police would view it though.

I would be pissed off too, but I'd deliberately left it there with the intention to obstruct, then I wouldn't be surprised.

It's the police position I'm interested in. If politely asking for it to be moved had drawn a blank, then hasn't the neighbour intentionally deprived me of the utility of my property, and if I use reasonable actions and cause no damage, would I be allowed to move the car?

Is this a similar principle to the anti-clamping legislation currently on the way?

[Vee]

Am I missing something or does the moron actually live on the road running along the bottom of the one that the cars are parked on ?
ie they're alongside his house not outside the front of it ?

I'd be livid at being blocked in and would be knocking on the door in the middle of the night.

[TJA]

I think that it's down to the person/persons who own the house which you've decided to park outside.

I'm not sure if anyone wants to have X number of cars that aren't dont belong to them parked outside their house for much of the time. There are ways to deal with it though, and jamming in someone's car is not the way to do so.

I would go round there and be very polite and civil, and ask them what's what.

6 cars for a house is a bit of overkill unless you can adequately store all of them so try and have some empathy with those that have 2.

To the person that said they can't use the bus stop because it's a mile away from them - wtf? Not all of us have bus stops on our doorstep, we have to walk to them! If you can't get to work on time on public transport, get up earlier!

I used to live at a house that had a large-sized drive off the street. I've lost count of the amount of times I've come home to find people parked on my drive (which was separated from the street by a big line of hedgerows - if you parked on my drive you've properly 'breached' this line ( ) and have entered the inner sanctum of my house). If someone asks me politely then I have no problem with this, but there are many people in this world (many of them seem to inhabit PH) that just assume that this is ok to do. It's not.

To the OP - if they're going to continue to be arsey about the whole thing then find somewhere else within 10 metres where you can park without upsetting people. My guess is that you'll be able to find someone else that'll let you do so.

[HereBeMonsters]

Just park another car inches from their bumper? You seem to have a few to spare...

[hombrepaulo]

+1 for ringing their door bell at 2am asking them to move their car(s). Continue until issue resolves

[saaby93]

TJA said:

To the OP - if they're going to continue to be arsey about the whole thing then find somewhere else within 10 metres where you can park without upsetting people. My guess is that you'll be able to find someone else that'll let you do so.

Or move it about so you affect all neighbours in equal measure, if its random (say 1 night in 10) they dont seem to be so concerned about it

[Vipers]

TJA said:

I'm not sure if anyone wants to have X number of cars that aren't dont belong to them parked outside their house for much of the time.

But its a PUBLIC highway, if there are no parking restrictions in force, anyone is free to park there.

[STW2010]

saaby93 said:

TJA said:

To the OP - if they're going to continue to be arsey about the whole thing then find somewhere else within 10 metres where you can park without upsetting people. My guess is that you'll be able to find someone else that'll let you do so.

Or move it about so you affect all neighbours in equal measure, if its random (say 1 night in 10) they dont seem to be so concerned about it

Still talking st then....

[Stevenj214]

TJA said:

I think that it's down to the person/persons who own the house which you've decided to park outside.

I'm not sure if anyone wants to have X number of cars that aren't dont belong to them parked outside their house for much of the time. There are ways to deal with it though, and jamming in someone's car is not the way to do so.

I would go round there and be very polite and civil, and ask them what's what.

6 cars for a house is a bit of overkill unless you can adequately store all of them so try and have some empathy with those that have 2.

To the person that said they can't use the bus stop because it's a mile away from them - wtf? Not all of us have bus stops on our doorstep, we have to walk to them! If you can't get to work on time on public transport, get up earlier!

I used to live at a house that had a large-sized drive off the street. I've lost count of the amount of times I've come home to find people parked on my drive (which was separated from the street by a big line of hedgerows - if you parked on my drive you've properly 'breached' this line ( ) and have entered the inner sanctum of my house). If someone asks me politely then I have no problem with this, but there are many people in this world (many of them seem to inhabit PH) that just assume that this is ok to do. It's not.

To the OP - if they're going to continue to be arsey about the whole thing then find somewhere else within 10 metres where you can park without upsetting people. My guess is that you'll be able to find someone else that'll let you do so.

You compare someone parking on a public street to someone parking on your property?

It is not the house owner's place to allow or not allow people to park on a public road with no restrictions.

[Andy OH]

A car parked on this road can barely be seen from the house on the corner as there is a six foot fence with about another foot of trellis on top of that running along side the full length of the property. As long as the car parked is taxed, MOT'd and is insured then there is nothing wrong with parking there. I do think some people need to get a life and not just the people who live in the house opposite the OP but a few peolple on here too

Edited by Andy OH on Tuesday 21st December 15:25

[Rude-boy]

hombrepaulo said:

+1 for ringing their door bell at 2am asking them to move their car(s). Continue until issue resolves

To do this properly it must be done at different times of the day and night and with varying gaps between rings. Don't let them fall into a pattern they can predict

[STW2010]

Rude-boy said:

hombrepaulo said:

+1 for ringing their door bell at 2am asking them to move their car(s). Continue until issue resolves

To do this properly it must be done at different times of the day and night and with varying gaps between rings. Don't let them fall into a pattern they can predict

And don't allow a gap of more than 2 hours. We wouldn't want them to get any proper sleep

[RV8]

I would have just parked outside your own drive in the same fashion as the white suzuki van has done on the grass further up as this is less likely to cause complaint if you are off the path and the main road, if your folks want to get out of your drive you just move your car.

To be fair though you do have a lot of cars, plus expect guests to be able to park, if everyone down your street had four cars and expected guests to park on the road it would be chaos, the same sort of chaos as we have around some of our back roads. Personally I don't like people parking near junctions (or on the road if it can be helped) as even when the junction is clear you never know when you'll be half way through overtaking the parked car/s when another driver is entering the junction at pace.

[Vipers]

Look around inner cities, cars parked nose to tail both sides of the streets, do people moan about it, no.

Whats the big issue of someone other than you parking on a public road in front of your house? It aint your bit of road, its a public road.

[Stevenj214]

RV8 said:

if everyone down your street had four cars and expected guests to park on the road it would be chaos

What about streets which consist of flats with no off street parking? 6-8 Flats to a block with anything between 0-4 cars to a flat. It works absolutely fine. If there is no space where you want to park, you park in the closest space available.

[Muncher]

RV8 said:

I would have just parked outside your own drive in the same fashion as the white suzuki van has done on the grass further up as this is less likely to cause complaint if you are off the path and the main road, if your folks want to get out of your drive you just move your car.

To be fair though you do have a lot of cars, plus expect guests to be able to park, if everyone down your street had four cars and expected guests to park on the road it would be chaos, the same sort of chaos as we have around some of our back roads. Personally I don't like people parking near junctions (or on the road if it can be helped) as even when the junction is clear you never know when you'll be half way through overtaking the parked car/s when another driver is entering the junction at pace.

I do sometimes park outside on the grass but that time there was another car there.

It's even more of a problem in the summer when I want to use the VX as that then occupies the driveway.

[RV8]

Stevenj214 said:

RV8 said:

if everyone down your street had four cars and expected guests to park on the road it would be chaos

What about streets which consist of flats with no off street parking? 6-8 Flats to a block with anything between 0-4 cars to a flat. It works absolutely fine. If there is no space where you want to park, you park in the closest space available.

I can see what you are saying but around here the houses are victorian and georgian terraced houses with roads never designed for modern traffic, let alone parking and traffic. The roads effectively become very long one way streets which require two way traffic and no room for emergency vehicles and cars being constantly swiped by careless motorists - so no, it does not work fine at all in many cases.

Edited by RV8 on Tuesday 21st December 18:36

[saaby93]

Vipers said:

Look around inner cities, cars parked nose to tail both sides of the streets, do people moan about it, no.

Whats the big issue of someone other than you parking on a public road in front of your house? It aint your bit of road, its a public road.

I think you got it in two
When you choose to buy a house you can choose a nice inner city street with its benefits of being near the city and where everyone now parks their car on the street, or you can choose a modern estate where everyone has a nice insular bit of driveway and keeps the road clear. The 'fear' is change. That your estate becomes something you didn't want.

About it being a public road - thats what it is
Bagging a piece so you can park your car there doesn't usually go down well, unless everyone else has also bagged a piece for themselves

[Stevenj214]

RV8 said:

Stevenj214 said:

RV8 said:

if everyone down your street had four cars and expected guests to park on the road it would be chaos

What about streets which consist of flats with no off street parking? 6-8 Flats to a block with anything between 0-4 cars to a flat. It works absolutely fine. If there is no space where you want to park, you park in the closest space available.

I can see what you are saying but around here the houses are victorian and georgian terraced houses with roads never designed for modern traffic, let alone parking and traffic. The roads effectively become very long one way streets which require two way traffic and no room for emergency vehicles and cars being constantly swiped by careless motorists - so no, it does not work fine at all in many cases.

Edited by RV8 on Tuesday 21st December 18:36

Here is an example of it working fine:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?oe=utf-8&client=...

Ideal? No. But everyone is in the same position in that street. It's not a case of Nimbyism. Emergency vehicles get through fine.

Let's GoogleMap your street and compare?

Edited by Stevenj214 on Tuesday 21st December 19:49