Fencing off parking on private road?

Get your car parked where you want it and then don't move it ever again.

Does the Land Registry plan have the red line boundary for your title including any part of the road?

If it does do you have a right of access over other people's strips and they have a right of access over your strip? Does it say that?

If it does then they can't park on your strip but only have access over it and you mustn't park in such a way as to impede such access.

If you do not own the strip in front of your house then you can do a SIM search at the Land Registry to see if the road is registered, and fi so the tile number(s) - if it is you can get copies and find out who owns it. Very likely it won't be registered.

Another possible situation is that whilst you don't own any of the road the Land Registry entries do give a right of access over it - this is access - not a right to park on it so then both you and the neighbour up the road (assuming there is a similar right in their LR entries) are in the same position - neither has any better right to park than the other.

Is there space at all to have a small driveway put in and dropped curb? if there was even if it was big enough for a smart car it would help. They then legally cannot block your rights of access or whatever its called. I know this as I once got towed when I forgot I'd parked over a friends neighbours drive by about 5 inches and then had a drink so left the car over night. I came back to find they'd called the police and had it towed despite it being a double drive and them having a micra. Very petty but it was the law and cost me £150 to get my car back.

maninthestreet wrote: »

It's a private road - buy an old banger that still looks reasonably ok, declare it SORN (so no road tax, mot or insurance required) and park it outside your house where this person parks.

Not sure how this would help - I assume the OP wants to be able to park near own house, so they can take the baby and shopping in? This would just reduce the number of places and annoy people more.

However, the OP is quite lucky to have so many spaces for the number of cars - I have enough room for at least one big car on the road outside my house (maybe two small ones) but it is always full with people from other houses/roads/B&Bs. Nothing I can do, except not use the car! On our road, we do try not to block "other people's" spaces, unless there is no option. But I guess the situation with your neighbour has gone beyond that, so you will just have to put up with it and be glad you don't end up having to park quarter of a mile away, up a steep hill, and across a main road! (That is what can happen round our way.)

I do understand that it is frustrating not to to have your own spot, I feel the same, but it really does not sound too bad as long as there are always enough places on the road. Maintaining good relationships with your neighbours is more important than parking on "your" side of the road.

There is really not enough information to answer the OP's question. Looking at the plan it seems unlikely that the space outside number 11 is allocated to the owner.

I once owned a house that had a shared private vehicular access to allow access to the garages at the rear of the houses. There were always disputes over inconsiderate parking on the area outside the garages but the deeds did guarantee access to the garages and rear gate via this shared area of land. My conveyancing solicitor explained that the land was probably still owned by the builder who had erected the houses, but was of no commercial value to the builder since he had granted free rights of access over it in perpetuity. He said that the usual outcome in this situation was that when access route needed to be repaired the then residents would have to adopt the land and repair it themselves at which point the original builder would almost certainly sell them the land for a nominal sum to avoid the hassel or accident claims. The OP may have a similar situation.

I think the big issue is whether the owners of the houses without the road in front of their houses have any right of access to the private road. Were all the houses built at the same time by the same builder?