On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 18:54:14 +0100, Chris French wrote:

"James Wilkinson" Wrote in message:
On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 21:37:03 +0100, Chris French wrote:

"NY" Wrote in message:
"harry" wrote in message
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On Sunday, 14 August 2016 16:37:05 UTC+1, James Wilkinson wrote:
If someone parks in front of your house, simply use a large power tool
such as a brush cutter, and start sending bits of twig flying everywhere.
The car will get moved very quickly :-)

The road in front of your house is not yours.
Anyone can park there subject to yellow lines etc.

Does that include parking across your drive so you can't get your car in or
out? I know that you can't lay claim to the road *opposite* or *either side
of* your drive.

Well, you can't lay claim to the road, but it is a parking offence
to leave a vehicle parked across a dropped kerb (introduced in
the 2004 Traffic Management Act)

That's daft, it should be "across a driveway". I've seen plenty dropped kerbs left where there is no longer a driveway, or driveways where they haven't bothered dropping the kerb.

Nope. It's not just driveways, it's also dropped kerbs for things
like pedestrians to cross the road.

I ignore those. They can walk round me.

The council can ticket it, or potentially get a vehicle removed.
Think for single driveways they tend not to enforce this (s it
may well be the householder or someone with permission.) Unless
the householder specifically complains about it.

(According to our local council when I spoke to them about it re
our driveway).

We quite often get people parking across our drive as we are near
the village shops and there is at times limited parking space.
Normally they are just stopping for a minute or two. Annoying if
you want to get out (though normally we aren't,) but not the end
of the world.

We did call the police one night when someone left their car
parked across it and as it happens my wife was on call (O&G
consultant, if she gets called in in the middle of the night,
it's because someone's birth is going pear shaped in a pretty
big way) . They managed after a while to locate the driver and
get them to move it.

If someone blocked the exit to my drive and I needed to get out (especially as urgently as your wife), I'd reverse into the offending car and shove it out of my way.

Yes James I'm sure you would, but:

1. I'm not sure how good at shifting a larger car a Yaris would be.
2. We'd rather not cause damage to her car.
3. You probably open yourself to the risk of criminal damage charges.

They started it. So surely it's like self defence?

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