Parking on a private driveway without permission Options

[Korting]

Today, my friend went to leave her house and found a large van had parked on her driveway. She didn't need her car but she wouldn't have been able to get it out because of the way the van was parked.

The driver of the van did not have and certainly did not ask permission to park on the drive.

So what can one do if faced with this situation?

You cant clamp it, you cant get inside it or break into it to release the handbrake. It is I understand to glue a notice to the windscreen.

So what can one legally do?

[andy_foster]

"How would you feel if some ar53hole parked on your driveway?" used to be the go to line for every lowlife PPC troll, seeking to equate a scrap of land used for extorting motorists with a private driveway.

Whilst businesses perhaps ought to be expected to take reasonable steps to protect their land, many would find the idea of suggesting that individuals ought to install and use barriers in their own driveways, to deter said ar53holes, to be somewhat offensive.

If some ar53hole had parked on my own private driveway and I parked behind him, my intention in so doing would ostensibly be to park in my own private driveway without going to the trouble of dragging his car out of my private driveway. If he had any expectation that I would be moving my car for his convenience (as opposed to when I wanted to move it), I would suggest that he would be somewhat delusional.

[nigelbb]

Whilst businesses perhaps ought to be expected to take reasonable steps to protect their land, many would find the idea of suggesting that individuals ought to install and use barriers in their own driveways, to deter said ar53holes, to be somewhat offensive.

Aren't those barriers called gates? They seem pretty common on driveways so many people obviously don't seem to find the idea offensive.

Incidentally re-reading Section 54 of POFA 2012 I see that it's not restricted to motor vehicles & that if someone parks their caravan on your driveway that towing it off is an offence.

[andy_foster]

Incidentally re-reading Section 54 of POFA 2012 I see that it's not restricted to motor vehicles & that if someone parks their caravan on your driveway that towing it off is an offence.

Only if the intention is to immobilise. Towing itself is not an offence under s. 54

This post has been edited by andy_foster: Mon, 7 Jan 2019 - 15:21