Illegal To Park Across Your Drive But Not On It

[hc4361]

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/you-someone-parks-your-drive-12888157?bustcache=1492073871090

This must be very frustrating. I have posts across my drive to prevent this happening but what would you do?

[fiction-factory]

If the houseowner were to decide to spray paint his fence and the wind blew splashes onto the car would that be criminal damage? Actually iI can think of lots of things I'd like to do but I am pretty sure I wouldn't as it wouldn't speed up the removal of the car and could lead to revenge actions, so in reality I'd follow a boring legal route

[hc4361]

Loads of fantasy revenge plots to be dreamt up.

I wonder if you could put a warning notice on the windscreen and after a certain time send the car to the scrapper.

[gness]

Hc.....I still find it amazing that this can happen and be legal.....supposing it was an old scrap car......a bathroom suite you're replacing.....surely we can't just put any of our belongings in someone else's garden....but seems we can....or maybe just if it's a car.....odd..x

[ZebbyUK]

Sorry but I pay a mortgage on my property and I don't expect anyone to do this to it. If they did, I'd be putting a window through and moving the car myself. I have front and rear dash cams in my car so would be staying clear of the cameras until I could get inside to disconnect them.

The other option is to strategically place large screws on the drive so all four tyres would be pierced enough for them to get some distance away before they went down. They'd know where it happened but be unable to prove it.

We live in a law society and when it fails to protect you or your property, you need to take action and not let others use it to abuse you.

[hc4361]

That's the thing, Gness, people can and do dump their rubbish on other people's property and then it is down to the landowner to deal with it.

His only course of redress is to sue the culprit in a civil court and good luck with that!

[hc4361]

Would you do that immediately, Zebby, or after a few hours/days?

[gness]

Of course...I regularly drive along two country lanes and get so angry at the rubbish.....so much rubbish and large items that are dumped in farm gates and entrances.....
I keep my phone handy to photograph any car I see parked up....

But I'd never thought they could just do it in my garden or on the drive.....but why not?....... :-(

[hc4361]

£10k bill for this farmer
http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/watch-farmer-could-face-10k-bill-after-fly-tippers-dump-mountain-of-waste-on-his-land/story-30141977-detail/story.html

It's no joke, gness

[gness]

Lord that's awful, Hc! Where on earth will he find that money to clear that up after someone else.....and that's not everyday fly tipping is it?

I hope he gets some help in dealing with this......folk can't work and farm and have to fork out their own money...that's wrong.....x

[hc4361]

That is why I hate my neighbours (and everyone else) leaving their scrap items out for the tatters to take away. Very often they are not licensed and anything they don't want they just dump somewhere they shouldn't.

[gness]

That's a good point I've not considered, Hc.....we have lots of scrap vans around this estate....I should have thought that if they don't want all that's left out they'll just dump it on the way home...thanks....x

[johnny37]

to get back to the point. there must be a reason for the car being park across your drive in front of the gate. put a polite notice on it. is there something you have not told us?

[gness]

Have you actually read the op, Johnny?

[hc4361]

:D

[tonyav]

Cut the handbrake cable and let it roll into the road, the cops will have removed then for causing an obstruction.

[hc4361]

My drive slopes towards my house :(

[tonyav]

chock the front wheels, cut the handbrake cable and tow it out.

[ToraToraTora]

I'd just put it on the flat bed and drop it on to some double yellow lines in the high st.

[TWR]

My House, My Drive, It would be gone in 10mins, end of.