Residents only parking is theft

I have an allocated parking space on my drive. Somebody decided to park over my space and my visitors spece. So I blocked them in. After 3 hours or so I could see that the driver of the parked car wanted to go. So I left it another half hour went out and moved my car. what can I do next time they decide to park in my space/spaces. Are there any laws etc? should I leave my car blocking them in all night??? Anyone help?

um... ever heard of cycling to work? or using the bus? or walking?

My street (I don't actually own it of course) is used by people who get the train from the nearby train station or the employees of the fire station headquarters across the road, which incidentally has a large internal car park. If I can't get parked in my street, it is difficult to unload shopping, risks my car being vandalised or stolen when parked in another street and is just plain inconvenient.
You must be a very calm, contented individual who doesn't mind being inconvenienced by idiots who don't have enough brain cells to find a decent place to park.
I however have a towbar on the back of my old car and I'm not very good at judging distances, not that anyone would ever know it's me.

Residents only parking should be enforced and supported. I pay extra for parking space on top of the rent for the home I'm living in.

I don't expect to come home from a days graft to find some motor parked there whilst they've gone shopping in the mall. You wouldn't like it would you?

Listen to the lies that men tell. Do they really think we believe this kind of nonsense any more. What on earth? How can Controlled Parking be related to traffic congestion at all. It's garbled gargantuan gooblewash!

In answer to the question

Why do we need controlled parking zones in Haringey?

Haringey Council answers

Haringey is a borough with high pollution and areas suffering from excessive traffic congestion. As part of a London-wide transport strategy, Haringey is committed to reducing car use in the borough and so reduce pollution, accidents, and delays to buses.

Controlled parking zones (CPZs) were first introduced in Haringey in 1994 to reduce traffic congestion, improve road safety and promote other forms of transport.

http://www.haringey.gov.uk/index/environment_and_transport/
parking/controlled_parking_zone.htm#why_cpz

What toss! If you wany "your" space you are free to buy/rent/sponge a house with its own drive or garage. If you don't, you have no rights over the public highway. I can't believe people who actually put cones in the street to reserve "their" space.

We lived where there was free for all parking on the street yet none of the houses had drives or garages. I work from home so every morning I would take my daughter to school and come back to find nowhere to park...at all....not even 2 or 3 streets away. This was in Matlock, and the reason for the problem was council workers who didnt want to queue to leave the huge staff car park at the end of the day. If I went food shopping, again there would be nowhere to park when I got home, so you would have to carry the shopping from wherever you could get a space. Sorry, but residents only parking is a MUST. We moved in the end because it was making life a misery.

I live near a town in a housing association property. We have parking for approximately 7 - 8 cars and more homes that there are spaces. In the week all the workers turn up to park outside our homes and on Saturdays along come the shoppers. Well, that is bad enough but how about this? In spite of there being spaces around us to park, two particular a***holes from another street insist on parking outside our houses. In fact, they go out of their way to move their car/cars (they have two) from outside their own place to park in front of ours. If challenged you get a mouthful, charming eh?
Residents only parking would only happen if everyone agreed and were prepared to pay a yearly fee for the priviledge so I can't see that happening any day soon.
I like the idea of others on this blog (retribution) but would never do anything to anyone else's car however, the thought gave me a good giggle and I'm glad it's not just us who feel really peed off with the situation.

I live on a street (cul-de-sac) that is owned by the people who own the properties. The council have never adopted the street. We even pay for a road sweeper to clean the street from time to time. There are 38 parking spaces off the road and we only use about 20 and other motorists seem to think it is OK for them to park here. There are signs up at the entrance to tell non-residents that they can not park here but do they take notice? Mind you it is such a laugh to look out of the window to them go "ape-shit" when they see a big key stripe or punctured tyre on their return. So don't park in MY street unless you want a garage bill!

Residents only parking is a must. I am currently fighting our township along with 4 other neighboring blocks. The outlining small buisnesses over took 4+ blocks of our community from 7am to 12 am! They leave parked cars on our streets for days at a time as the marketing companies go on road sales trips. They have 17 car parking and over 50+ employees. Compaines should supply ample parking for there buisness plain and simple. If you cant run a buisnees from a location that is too small for your needs you should not work there. Pay the Taxes for your buisness in the proper location. Anyone having this problem,first step is get your neighbors together. contact your civic association Contact the NEWS, Mayor and any representatives. Take video, pictures document license plates etc.Go to the Town and pull up any zoning ordinaces regarding the buildings in question. Fight Fight,certified letters,emails,call them! Anything illegal call the police..even if a car is parked in the wrong direction..have them towed or ticketed if possible. We currently got the buisness we were fightning denied thier zoning from the town. We are now working on Residential Only parking. And no we dont have garages and single driveways..so our spaces are very important to our everday means of living.
Ill say it again. Businesses need to stop avoiding paying higher taxes by cramming there large Businesses in a small area.
Residential only parking is theft ...I think not!

A pub at the end of my road converted it's carpark to a seating area, so now all it's staff and customers park outside the residents' houses instead. This means that there is often nowhere for people on my street to park when they get home and we have to resort to parking on other streets by some abandoned buildings. Result? I've had my car broke into 3 times (1 of which was a write-off) and my girlfriend has been sexually assaulted taking the 10 minute walk home in the dark.

Try living in my house before making your comments that residents have no right to park outside their house.

why shouldn't it be a resident only parking space, people don’t know how long you are going to park there and where you are as you could be visiting someone at the other end of the street, its not fair to park in to some else’s space when they live there.