blocking someones driveway

buttonteaser

i have a neighbor that kives half way down the road. and for some strange reason has taken a disliking to my family. and tries to annoy us in many ways eg telling family to move their cars and calling builderd doing work on our house scum. mow she is making a habit of blocking our driveway. it it legal for her to do this or can i have someting done about it

Hooch

buttonteaser wrote: »

i have a neighbor that kives half way down the road. and for some strange reason has taken a disliking to my family. and tries to annoy us in many ways eg telling family to move their cars and calling builderd doing work on our house scum. mow she is making a habit of blocking our driveway. it it legal for her to do this or can i have someting done about it

Call your local garda station, inform them of a car blocking your drive (that it regularly does it), they will send out district patrol car and issue a fixed penalty notice.

Sully

nice guy always wrote: »

Call your local garda station, inform them of a car blocking your drive (that it regularly does it), they will send out district patrol car and issue a fixed penalty notice.

Whats the offence?

snubbleste

Sully wrote: »

Whats the offence?

Obstruction

Hooch

Sully wrote: »

Whats the offence?

snubbleste wrote: »

Obstruction

There are several waysfor a member of AGS to approach this. One is obstruction as stated but there is a specific offence for this and I can prosected for it several times before.

Im not back to work until next week so i'll have to look it up then, cant find it on that bloody irish statute website, it should be under road traffic (parking of vehicle regulations) Act. I think it 1997 but i'll have to check

Tom Young

S. 98 of the 1961 act would work on the basis that the obstruction is caused in a public place also S. 154 of 1933.

Hooch

Tom Young wrote: »

S. 98 of the 1961 act would work on the basis that the obstruction is caused in a public place also S. 154 of 1933.

Thats the obstruction part tom??

I know there is a specific offence but cant think of it.

dermot_sheehan

Regulation 36(2)(g) of the Road Traffic (Parking and Traffic Regulations) 1997

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1997/en/si/0182.html#zzsi182y1997a36

A vehicle shall not be parked—

( g ) in any place, position or manner that will result in the vehicle obstructing an entrance or an exit for vehicles to or from a premises, save with the consent of the occupier of such premises;

Hooch

gabhain7 wrote: »

Regulation 36(2)(g) of the Road Traffic (Parking and Traffic Regulations) 1997

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1997/en/si/0182.html#zzsi182y1997a36

Cheers man thats the one. I know it states premises but anytime i've had it in court the judge has excepted it.

Sully

Okay but would a housing estate not be private? And as such can not be considered a public place? No?

johnfás

Sully wrote: »

Okay but would a housing estate not be private? And as such can not be considered a public place? No?

Depends on the estate.

Hooch

Sully wrote: »

Okay but would a housing estate not be private? And as such can not be considered a public place? No?

johnfás wrote: »

Depends on the estate.

No. Most if not all estates are public places, unless the estate has a barrier and suitable entry methoid ie card system.

Only your drive is a private place (put can be entered for certain offence on certain terms). The estates roads its self are public.

johnfás

nice guy always wrote: »

No. Most if not all estates are public places, unless the estate has a barrier and suitable entry methoid ie card system.

Only your drive is a private place (put can be entered for certain offence on certain terms). The estates roads its self are public.

Precisely - as I said it depends on the estate - there are plenty of such housing estates and an increasing number have been built over the last 10 years. Thus it depends on the estate, I never said most were not public places.

Hooch

johnfás wrote: »

Precisely - as I said it depends on the estate - there are plenty of such housing estates and an increasing number have been built over the last 10 years. Thus it depends on the estate, I never said most were not public places.

Yes and I cleared it up for the poster before you by identifing the type of estate and added your post to show the depend part. I never said you did say that they were not public did I.

Dont see the problem.

(I have never come accross such an estate that is not a public place in my years policing, just to add, so i wouldnt say there is plenty. But thats going away from the point:))

Sully

What about new estates still owned/run by the developer (ie not handed over to the council and no "residents only" type enterance).

Kinda links in with my other thread re: traffic lights on private land.

Victor

Sully wrote: »

What about new estates still owned/run by the developer (ie not handed over to the council and no "residents only" type enterance).

Kinda links in with my other thread re: traffic lights on private land.

Still a public road. Road Traffic Act applies (Roads Act does not apply).