What Would You Do Here?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1722730/petty-revenge-entitled-stranger-parking-party-Reddit
In this case the bloke just parked behind the offender on his own drive but
can you just park in the road across your own drive too? It seems unclear from this paragraph: "However, if a car is blocking a drive on a public road, it is likely that the driver is committing a parking offence, so local authorities can get involved and potentially fine the offending driver." even if you are only across your own drive? In general what can you legally do if someone parks on your drive? Is it trespass? Discuss......

[sandyRoe]

Key the car and tear off the windscreen wipers.

[Cloverjo]

I would be tempted to block the other car, but probably wouldn’t.
I once came home to find a lorry in my drive with the driver saying he was on his break and wasn’t allowed to drive for a while.

I could have blocked him in, I suppose, but instead I heaved my shopping up the steep hill from the bottom while glaring furiously at him.

[ToraToraTora]

yes Sandy, but the question is what can you do "legally"?

[Redhelen72]

I probably would have blocked them in too, I would not damage their car as that is probably criminal damage

[sandyRoe]

Probably nothing, unfortunately.

[bobbinwales]

if its only a short time then no harm done but I seen stories of rogue airport parking companies who leave cars on your drive for a week or 2. After a few days I'd put something there to stop them getting out like a big bag of gravel or wire so they cant get out. The car would also get very dirty after a dust storm

[Peter Pedant]

I dont think the law should get involved in something as trivial as this

[Peter Pedant]

unless they have barked on a baby or something

[237SJ]

Anyone can dream up a scenario to post on Reddit. Not sure that really happened.

[ToraToraTora]

Hey gromit you're back, straight into trolling I see. This is news and I thought an interesting point of discussion. Care to contribute?

[Gromit]

It is not news or interesting, it is trivial.
It is on reddit so likely to be untrue.
Very lazy and boring journalism.
If you want to read similar garbage everyday, use the reddit.app

[Old_Geezer]

I suspect very little can be done, save maybe putting a wall up. As I understand it, it is illegal to park across the dropped kerb, regardless who owns the property behind it.

[ToraToraTora]

well feel free to ignore then.

[bobbinwales]

or gromit you could just ignore it and wait for another news thread.
Its in a newspaper and just asmuch news as some of gullivers

[Gromit]

An unnamed man, in an unnamed place, at an unknown date, allegedly did something (which probably isn’t illegal).
I see very little news there. A space filler more like.

[andy-hughes]

Regardless of how true or not the scenario is -

I would have blocked the inconsiderate guest in with my car, to make them knock on the door and ask me to move my car.

I would then politely inform them that my drive is not a car park for random strangers, and I would move my car, and that would be the end of it.

Given the ease with which serious wars of attrition can be started between neighbours, I would not mention it to my neighbour unless they brought it up, and then i would explain what I had done, and why, and expect that to be the end of the matter.

[237SJ]

I know someone who booked an Air BnB for a weekend with his new girlfriend. The owner wasn't going to be there but gave them the address and told him to park on the drive. He did wonder why the drive was such a tight squeeze to get into but managed to park and then him and his new partner went off to lunch. When they were walking along the road after their lunch they realised that they had parked their car in the drive of the wrong house. Not only that but but owners of the house had come home and found a random WW on their drive and had phoned the police (who were not interested) I tried not to laugh when he told me.

[sandyRoe]

A true story here, years ago when I was out early one morning walking the wee dog I found a sheet of notepaper on the ground.
It read: 'You're blocking my egress, you c***.

[Paul22118]

When police are called to such an incident they would not remove the blocking vehicle as it was blocking an exit to property. If the scene was such that his car was blocking entry to the driveway, they could remove the vehicle as it was obstructing entry - but not if preventing an exit. The obvious exclusions would apply here such as emergency access needed or someone was in peril of injury etc etc.