Parking in narrow road,hled by resident?

Firstly no one has any right to park on the highway, the only right the public has is to travel along it. Parking on the highway has however become an accepted practice providing you dont contravene any restriction or cause a real obtruction ie blocking a driveway, obscuring visibility, parking on the footway etc. Parking at and near schools is one of the biggest problems I receive complaints about as it seems no one is capable of walking these days when I walked my children to school I use to walk past people just 200yds from the school getting in their cars!!!!! As regards you parking the resident cannot realistically do anything about it unless he can persaude the Council to put a restriction on the street such as a residents only parking scheme. As long as you park sensibly and in accordance with the highway code not to near to a junction etc the police will not do anything. Pleased to hear you never park on the school keep clear markings we get so many complaints from people about road safety at schools and then you visit and you see its the behaviour of the parents that cause the problems. Schools should be introducing school travel plans to try and resolve some of the problems with the local highways authority (normally the county council). Common ideas used in my area that do work are encouraging the kids to want to walk or ride to school to be healthy and the walking bus. The walking bus is parents getting together and taking it in turns to walk a large group of the children to school in one group picking children up on the way. At three miles thats not an option for you but I have known schools start the walking bus at a suitable carpark near the school so that people who do have to travel by car dont have overload the roads immediately outside the school. So anyway dont worry about the parking as long as you continue to park sensibly but talk to the school about their school travel plan and if they have not drawn one up get in touch with the governers as they are all required to do so and there is some money available for improvements to facilitate them such as building new footways cyclepaths bike shelters, providing reflective jackets for the walking bus etc. PS whilst some parents behavious does make you pull your hair out local residents invariably have no real reason to complain in that the school was almost certainly there a long time before them and the parking problem with it, they no doubt brought their house on a saturday or sunday or in the summer a case of buyer beware.