DHA Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 ..to park in front of someones empty driveway at 5 to 6 to go and drop something off a few doors down on the other side of the road? Leaving the car there for 20 minutes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimdiesel Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 No Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ritey Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 I wouldn't accept it but then I drive a landrover and it wouldn't be a problem for long Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossG Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 No. Block them in - or stay there fuming and let of some steam at them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DHA Posted June 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 It was outside nextdoor. If it had been our drive I would have went out to my car and started it up and waited to go "somewhere". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ritey Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 I have to say, its handy when you have a good police friend in these circumstances, its amazing how quickly they can get things shifted if parked over a dropped curb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvantSE Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 I believe it is an offence to block access to someone's property, though it depends on whether the owner is wanting to enter or leave (can't remember which, though I suspect the offence is to prevent entry). Maybe someone who is better clued up on traffic could assist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve2 Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 if i recall correctly if there is no vehicle in the drive you can park in front of the drive but if asked by a pc to move you must do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcon magnifique Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 Both I and my parents live at the end of a (different!) cul-de-sac, where a blocked drive is almost a daily hazard. I know some people who get incredibly incensed if their drive is blocked for a even a few moments, who will do anything from standing at the window and glaring to a engaging in a full scale argument... but I tend not to let it bother me. Ideally, the blocker would have the sense to remain in sight, or at worst leave a note on the dash saying where they've gone, but I've no problem knocking on neighbours' doors until I find them and politely (on a trailing scale depending how many doors I've knocked on) ask them to move. Mind you, I did physically manhandle a Mini out of the way once. I don't recall causing much damage... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ritey Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 If my Mini's are anything to go buy the handbrakes are never up to much, should of been no damage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mccombie_5 Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 We get a fair bit of this too, we haven't got a car, but we often have visitors who park in our driveway, the bloke accross the road has a fleet of vans in the street, and the bloke two doors down has a burger van and three cars in the street (these people seldom use their own driveways) and it gets bloody annoying sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calm Chris Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 [ QUOTE ] if i recall correctly if there is no vehicle in the drive you can park in front of the drive but if asked by a pc to move you must do so. [/ QUOTE ] Anyone parking and obstructing access deserves all they get from the penned in victim . Lazyness of some drivers seems to be paramount to courtesy . Double parking is another gem of the fat and idol....Let's double park, have a cup of tea and a natter indoors. Meanwhile , outside an ambulance can't get to it's heart attack / critical victim because of your (them)illegal parking . I get really quite 'hetty' about parking and a few times I've moaned about it. WTF is wrong with parking 25m away from where you want to be? park properly AND use those fat legs to get that fat arse to the tea and cakes. Not so much a rant, just a vision of life in London suburbia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rustynuts Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 [ QUOTE ] park properly AND use those fat legs to get that fat arse to the tea and cakes. [/ QUOTE ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazza_g Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 [ QUOTE ] Double parking is another gem of the fat and idol....Let's double park, have a cup of tea and a natter indoors. [/ QUOTE ] In some cities its perfectly acceptable to double park - Bangkok for instance, everone does it - but they leave their handbrakes off so you just see people rolling cars out of the way to get their cars free Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarMad Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 [ QUOTE ] ..to park in front of someones empty driveway at 5 to 6 to go and drop something off a few doors down on the other side of the road? Leaving the car there for 20 minutes? [/ QUOTE ] Just a point to note.. I get the same on occasions. But it is NOT an offence to block a drive that doesn't have a car in it. I know that doesn't sound right but I looked into it a while ago and the dropped curb only applies if there is a car in the drive. If there isn't then they you can call the Police out but i'd suggest they have better things to do. Could be wrong but I found the info from several places a police advice site being one of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mccombie_5 Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 I thought a dropped kerb was an opening in the highway, therefore on equal terms to a road junction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesB Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 It doesn't sound acceptable in this case but I wouldn't have an issue if they'd left a note on the windscreen or, ideally, knocked on my door first and asked. It's a little cheeky maybe but parking in West London is often at a premium and so I see no harm in allowing some latitude. However, I'm inclined to share Chri5's soapbox about people being too damned lazy to stop in a marked bay because they can't carry their wheezing, fat carcasses an extra 20 yards. Oh no, pull over somewhere stupid, put the hazards on for that special protection against law-breaking, and don't give a stuff about the rest of the world. (Possibly an unfair analogy in this instance though ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mccombie_5 Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 [ QUOTE ] It doesn't sound acceptable in this case but I wouldn't have an issue if they'd left a note on the windscreen or, ideally, knocked on my door first and asked. It's a little cheeky maybe but parking in West London is often at a premium and so I see no harm in allowing some latitude. However, I'm inclined to share Chri5's soapbox about people being too damned lazy to stop in a marked bay because they can't carry their wheezing, fat carcasses an extra 20 yards. Oh no, pull over somewhere stupid, put the hazards on for that special protection against law-breaking, and don't give a stuff about the rest of the world. (Possibly an unfair analogy in this instance though ) [/ QUOTE ] You dont fancy preeching that from the end of our driveway do you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOSE Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 Dave, I would get the video and photo evidence that they were ther for that amount of time, blocking your driveway and prove a point to the Highways. I deal with these peeps quite often and they do take these seriously, particularly if your driveway leads onto a main road, a road adopted by the local authority or is a private piece of land. Personally I would have got me mate next door to get his fork lift out of the garage, picked it up and placed it ontop of the garage where he was visiting.....but thats me!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian_m Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 Its not an offence to block a driveway if there is a car in it, however it is an offence if you are blocking a driveway and someone wants to get into that driveway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mccombie_5 Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 [ QUOTE ] Its not an offence to block a driveway if there is a car in it, however it is an offence if you are blocking a driveway and someone wants to get into that driveway [/ QUOTE ] What a dodgy rule though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian_m Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 True Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRobin Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 [ QUOTE ] Ideally, the blocker would have the sense to remain in sight, or at worst leave a note on the dash saying where they've gone, but I've no problem knocking on neighbours' doors until I find them and politely (on a trailing scale depending how many doors I've knocked on) ask them to move. [/ QUOTE ] ....Deffo the best thing to do . IMO it's not acceptable to knowingly inconvenience someone in their own home. My current garage is in a yard with other garages. One evening last Winter I came home at 1.00am to find my garage door blocked by a van. I had seen who the driver was and where he lived so I drove up to his house, aimed my Xenons on full beam at his front door and started to wake up the neighbourhood. He came out all blearly eyed and half asleep and I firmly told him that he needed to move his van. After he had done it and then irritated me further by complaining about it I calmly took him to one side and very softly told him that if he did it again it wouldn't be me he had to watch out for. Fortunately, for me, it did the trick and he has never parked anywhere near my garage since. Neither has anyone else! A few days later he apologised to me and gave me a box of tea-bags off his van and we are now on nodding terms. I totally over-reacted and I've clearly seen too many gangster movies! But the lesson is that, rightly or wrongly, people can react very strongly when it comes to their personal property. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mccombie_5 Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 LOL @ Robin! Nice one! My dad's street is fairly bad with parking, it's a 1940s council estate, so most of the houses dont have driveways, the ones that are there, like ours, have been added, dad built our driveway. This means people park their cars EVERYWHERE, and I can really sympathise with those people whose driveways get blocked, because you see the saem thing week in week out, ours doesnt get blocked because of the close proximatey to a corner, although everyone parks directly opposite. The roads aren't designed for parking or for everyone in the estate to have a car. The roads are narrow for two way roads, and with one side of any section parked on, it gets worse, the bin motor struggles to get round, the emergency service must dread that estate because it has a main road through, and cul-de-sac streets leading off, some of these are inaccessable at any one time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterb Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 [ QUOTE ] Its not an offence to block a driveway if there is a car in it, however it is an offence if you are blocking a driveway and someone wants to get into that driveway [/ QUOTE ] I'm sure it's the other way round! ........ yes, look here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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