Van parked on pavement every night

[Gtiracer]

Every night on my walk home from work I encounter a van parked on the pavement where it gets a little wider.

There is enough room for said company van and leaves enough room for one person to walk by the side of. However it is not always comfortable to get past as it is by a fence with a hedgerow above it sticking out.

I have mentioned it to the company who owns the van once already last week but van still parked in same spot every night.

Is it worth making a fuss over and can anything actually be done?

 

[pepsilol]

Take a picture so we can see if you're a troublemaker or not.

 

[Glanza]

Can you get down the side with a pram or wheelchair?

 

[Gtiracer]

Take a picture so we can see if you're a troublemaker or not.

Ok will do

Can you get down the side with a pram or wheelchair?

Some night yes, some nights no, depends how he chooses to park

 

[SC0TTRS]

Could report it to 101, get a PCSO to have a word?

 

[ShivP]

Deflate a tyre

 

[Amos91]

You don't want to get arrested for stealing air

 

[andicole0]

Ask the council who are responsible for parking.

https://www.askthe.police.uk/content/Q387.htm

Andi.

 

[teenwolf]

Poop up the exhaust

 

[Spacedeck]

Can you get down the side with a pram or wheelchair?

Is there some law to suggest this has to be the case? When I walk to the GF's I have to walk along the main busy road. I get to a section where 2 vehicles fully mount the curb to park up. Only fits a single person through at a time and someone with a pram would either have to walk out into the road to get round, or try cross over the road.

 

[Glanza]

Is there some law to suggest this has to be the case? When I walk to the GF's I have to walk along the main busy road. I get to a section where 2 vehicles fully mount the curb to park up. Only fits a single person through at a time and someone with a pram would either have to walk out into the road to get round, or try cross over the road.

Not sure if there's a law but it seems to get the council / pcso's to attend quicker when people are having to go on the road to get around it with prams / wheelchairs.

 

[Steampunk]

Contact your local council to see if they designate parking on pavements illegal. If so, they will probably have a number to call, and someone will come out and give a ticket, and/or organize a tow if it is causing an obstruction.

Last time some school run parents blocked my drive for two hours, I made a call and had someone arrive to ticket in 10-15 mins. It depends who your local council is and how seriously they take people taking the **** when parking.

 

[Nasher]

Many residential areas have bylaws preventing people from parking commercial vehicles in them outside of working hours (even on driveways!). You could check that.

 

[SC0TTRS]

Last time some school run parents blocked my drive for two hours, I made a call and had someone arrive to ticket in 10-15 mins. It depends who your local council is and how seriously they take people taking the **** when parking.

Was you're drive empty at the time?

 

[acake]

you spoken to the company try again but email all and any directors mangers you can with a photo. and if all else fails keep pushing your local council parking people regularly.
Also play the disabled card saying you cant get a wheel chair past and need to go in to the road causing issues this usually makes people take action

 

[koolpc]

Cover the door handles in cat poo?

 

[Ryan-3]

I thought you had to leave enough room for a wheelchair? Using this as an excuse would increase the chance of something being done.

Those next door to me cannot park and regularly block the whole pavement, but they're parking where no one walks so no-one kicks up a fuss. Also keeps them away from parking with us.

 

[MooMoo444]

Scratch down the side of it with your wheelchair, job jobbed.

 

[Steampunk]

Was you're drive empty at the time?

Yes, but it's illegal in my borough to have any part of your vehicle over a dropped kerb. What really set me off was that because one car blocked half my drive, another one decided they would block the other half. Selfish driving and parking is getting normalised in my street because the school run are a bunch of lazy ****ers. If the second driver had been a bit quicker leaving her car (instead of being caught by parking enforcement), she wouldn't have been able to drive off and they would have both been ticketed instead of one.

People don't want to walk ten seconds further down the road, so they pass the inconvenience to me in the form of not being able to use my drive for anywhere from 15 mins to overnight. They don't know when I'm coming and going or what my circumstances are, so I'm happy to pass that inconvenience back in the form of a ticket/tow. Serves them right for putting themselves in the position where I can do that to them.

If I'd had a car on the drive, the local parking enforcement would likely have had the cars towed. Just depends how much effort your borough puts into parking enforcement.

 

[Nasher]

Yea I see school run mums blocking one of the roads near me all the time. They park all the way round a blind corner, block driveways, on the no parking "school" markings etc. completely blocking the place up. Many of them live in the same village and are just lazy.