Everyone else lives there, so I suspect he isnt bothered by them. I do hope they are parking outside their own homes, though!

I'm not sure what relevance this has? If this really matters though, she's the one who I've noticed the most as she has quite a distinctive car and I've seen her walk towards the hospital before. The others I can't be 100% sure that they're at the hospital but they seem to be there during the day on weekdays and not at night time or weekends. There's nothing else of note nearby, just houses so there's no other workplaces.

Just remember its called a public highway for a reason, any person can park on a pubic highway, You buy a house but you dont buy or own the road outside it .

Well if she is of no relevance then why do you keep on mentioning her and her alone?

Anyway there's nothing you can do about it, she can legally park there and doesn't need to seek anybody's permission.

People park on the road near my house all day long. They're teachers from the school nearby. They have a staff car park as well, but getting out of it in the afternoons is a nightmare due to the road layout, so they park in surrounding roads. First come first served, and unless the Council see fit to do something about it then that is how it will stay.

It isn't an unusual problem and is growing especially close to rail stations or indeed as I discovered only yesterday park and ride and cheap weekly bus offers. In a village close to Oxford my brother -in-law has seen increasing numbers of people parking in his and surrounding streets which not only affects people parking their own cars but trades visiting to carry out repairs, installations or even food deliveries. The residents have campaigned for over two years to have parking restrictions such as limited one hour parking but the council have rejected this on the grounds of policing it. A counter argument was made that the signs would act as a deterrent if random not mandatory checking was carried out. A random date chosen shortly after installation where vigrous checking and tickets issued would act as a deterrent and probably kill the problem stone dead.

It really is down to the local council and the councillors who people elect, some will be badly served as it seems where my brother-in-law lives but thankfully we had a long standing independent councillor who did act on behalf of our residents and convinced other councillors to have parking restrictions in key areas which have improved the situation immensely. Another area he has had succes is calming the speed of traffic in our road by having a 20 mph speed restriction where it is used as a rat run to avoid getting through the town centre. I was sceptical at first especially when I had a knock on my door asking for volunteers to monitor the speed. It was reported a few weeks ago that speeding has been reduced by 80% in just over 10 months.

So I think it is really down to residents and councils to really try and come together and address the problem as no amount of objections raised politely or otherwise, directly or indirectly with those individuals causing the problem are going to solve it.

I wonder what happens if they live there AND work in the hospital?

Could you apply to your Council for a dropped kerb?

Is your road a private road? If it is actually a private road then you could put a notice on the car asking them to stop parking there and it would trespassing if they continue and you could take them to court.

Ditto.
As long as nobody blocks your driveway with their car (if u have a driveway). And a driveway must have a dropped kerb to be recognised as a driveway.
Other than that, there's nothing to be done, maybe move to a house not near a hospital.

Or hope the Government continues to allow the closure of hospitals until one day we end up with just one mega hospital in the midlands that serves the whole of England.

The hosp might impose harsh restrictions on staff driving to work - as is the case with the main hosp here (or rather 20miles from here).
Staff who live up to 2miles away are not allowed to park in the staff car park. This is to encourage the use of cycling, buses, and walking.....but the hosp is on a dual carriage way......

Maybe that hosp has significant costs attached for staff parking.

You start by referring generally to local hospital staff but then refer to "her" and then later refer to "Lady Muck".
You seem to be targeting an individual.

I'm a nurse who works in a hospital that imposes a charge of £30/month to park but a space is not guaranteed. It can be almost impossible to park after 0930am. My shifts start at 0730 but I sometimes come in on days off for meetings, for teaching (either to carry out or attend) or because I'm on a later start time if, for example, I had to stay hours at the end of the preceding shift, until after midnight. I've mainly then had to use the public car park (where it can also be difficult to find a space) at a cost of £15 for the time I would be using it - there generally isn't time in my day to go out of work to move the car.

I've had at least 3 parking fines within the hospitals I've worked in, always with a valid permit but parked in the wrong zone due to unavailability of spaces in the designated zone. Nurses have had pay cuts over the past few years so parking fines of £60 can really affect income. One of the agency nurses I worked with left her shift at 10pm to find she had been clamped by the hospital parking attendants and they would not release her until she paid. Most of us don't come to work with much money or credit/debit cards so she had to get a taxi home (paid at the other end) and sort out the car the following day. She probably made no money for that particular shift.

Car parking for hospital staff is becoming increasingly difficult because, in London, lots of other hospital departments have closed due to centralisation of services on one site. There are now too many staff competing for too few spaces.

I know some people who park some distance away in residential streets but I also have a friend whose car was impounded when she inadvertently parked on a private road (it was a night shift, she didn't have a staff permit because she only worked occasional bank shifts). She had to pay around £200 to retrieve her car.

I know it can be annoying for residents who live near hospitals or schools but workers do need to get to work and to do that we need to park our cars. Certainly, public transport cannot be relied on for those of us who live long distances from work and who work unsocial hours.

My next door neighbours have about 5 cars to park so there is always a car parked outside my house and it can be difficult for me to exit and enter my very narrow drive (occasionally I've been blocked but not for long). I just have to tolerate it because it's easier to get on with people than not. In many other ways they are excellent neighbours.

I work in a hospital aswell MarellaK, it's among the largest teaching hospitals in Europe so I'm sure folk can imagine the amount of cars that visit it every day. It's also 1 of only 3 hospital car parks in Scotland which still charge for parking(£2.20 per day).

Early shift and night shift can get a space no problem but staff turning up for late shift which starts around 1pm regularly have to start queuing around 11am, a full 2 hours before shift due to start. These folk are often still late for start of shift due to lack of space.

There is a large housing estate nearby which sees an overspill of cars from the hospital though most of the streets in the estate are either permit holder spaces or a maximum of 2 hours. There are a small number of unlimited time spaces.

All in all between the waiting time, the cost, the needing correct change its a bloody nightmare just to go to work

ETA I have had a number of parking charge notice but thankfully as I'm in Scotland these can simply be ignored despite the many threatening letters the parking company waste their money on sending

I just wonder how many people who complain on here about people parking outside their house will quite happily park outside someone else's house if it is free rather than use a car park when they are looking for a space to park in another area.

Many who live near me complain about the noise from our local regional airport but will quite happily travel down to Gatwick or Stansted for a better choice of holiday flights.

I am trying to decide if it is more selfish to want to park near you work or want to park near your house.... since it's a public road I'd suggest neither is particularly selfish but entirely reliant on the luck of the draw.

Where is this hospital? It sounds like the first hospital in recent history to have 'ample' parking - I've visited rather a lot these past few years and to be honest this sounds like something I'd have to see to believe.

I just have parked outside someone's house loads of times. Often to visit a neighbour. If the area isn't reserved, or blocking a drive, what's the issue?

How would people park anywhere? Given not every housing estate has a public car park!

This is where the argument falls down about the presumption that space outside your house is yours and people are selfish to stop there. It's a road. It's not yours.

Do these people get upset when cars dare to drive by at 3am and potentially wake you up? Should they show more consideration?

We very rarely have people park outside our house and when we do it's only for an hour or so. I do think if there was someone parking outside my house all day, most days it would annoy me massively. But sadly, as others have pointed out there is nothing you can do to stop it.

What I would do if I was you is wait until the next time someone parks outside yours and calmly go out and talk to them and ask if they wouldn't mind parking somewhere else as you have a baby on the way. I'm sure they would understand. Or do the note on the car. There's no harm in asking is there? If not go to your council and see if they can do anything.

Do your other neighbours feel the same way about you?

Huh?

Maybe the baby wants to park there?

Unless you plan to put a note on every car in the world there's really little point in putting it on one. If that person reads your note and chooses not to park in front of your house they will just move up or down the street a little and park in someone else's space, that person will then need a space to park in and guess what? There will be one free in front of your house.

People do not think "oh look an empty space, that's probably being saved for someone who really needs it so I won't park there". The only way to make sure your car is parked in front of your house is to park it there and the. never ever move it.

Reading Borough Council are going to stop drivers parking for free on the roads situated near The Royal Berks Hospital, as residents are complaining that they can't park outside of their homes.

There are very few spaces in the (very small) car park itself. I can drive round the 2 storeys available for parking for a long time before I eventually find a space.

For a large hospital, in virtually the centre of Reading, it's not efficient at all. I mean I do feel sorry for the residents, but sometimes people have little choice but to park on the roads.

I think the OP has inadvertently answered his own question. The on-site staff car park is always full, so this is obviously not an option for everyone.

Why should anyone park a long way away from their place of work AND no doubt pay a considerable fee for the use of a nearby car park when there are perfectly legal parking spaces available nearby on public streets?

I suggest you ask your council again (get your neighbours to support you) to provide residents only parking. The other possible option if you have the space is to convert part of the land in front of your property into a drive. Then no one will be allowed to park in front of you as they'd be blocking your access.

Naturally, if you request a residents parking scheme and get it, you will prolly have to pay for the use of it.

If you have a drive way made out of your garden, you will need to get the local council to lower the path as well. If you don't, people can still legally park in front your drive way. It doesn't become legal until the path is dropped.

And still doesn't guarantee that you can park outside your house!