Don’t park on my drive!

If you arrived home one day to find a stranger’s car parked on your drive, your immediate instinct may be to call the police and have the car removed.

However, due to a grey area in criminal and civil law, it is technically not illegal to park on someone else’s driveway. Meaning as the driveway owner, you have no legal right to remove the nuisance car.

Several instances of this happening in the UK have shined a light on the lack of jurisdiction the police and local councils have over this activity – neither have the power to remove the car.

There are currently no plans to remove the loophole in the UK, plans are in place to fix the loophole in Jersey.

For a driveway that strangers would be happy to park on, contact Peter Beasley in Four Marks today.

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