can someone stiop me parking outside their house

Bossyboots

kittykate wrote:

Then if the space outside of your own house is not intended for your car then why do people have the right to paint a disabled parking space in it?

They don't. In our area at least you have to apply to the council to have a designated disabled space marked outside your house and they arrange the contractor to paint it. Even so, that space does not become the sole province of the householder but any disabled person can park there.

gingerdad

I solved our problem, we bought a house with a drive, i like the us system where if you park on the road you you get towed

Wig

Bossyboots wrote:

We're not allowed to put our bins outside of our own property boundaries, even the night before bin day, so she would get fined if she lived in our borough.

Oh if only it were true! We can put our wheelie bins out the back (we all have rear alleyways (too small to get even a car along)) but everyone including the bin men has gotten used to having them on the pavement outside the front doors, it makes the place look a real eyesore!

Wig

ben500 wrote:

Back to the op from what you say in your post I am picturing a shop with a small pull in/lay by at front for customers to pull up, if so then some of these are actually contributed to by the resident vendor and they can have certain rights over them but this is usually identified by way of street signs allowing you to use the area after a specified time. If there are no such signs a quick call to your local council will determine if they are contributing and have any claim over the space during shop opening times, some are restricted merely for road safety purposes, recessed pavement that's the term I was looking for got there in the end.

In the shop scenario if it is the shops land for the general use of customers, there is implied access and if no signs (as per OP) then yes you can park there for as long as you want, they can only stop you by putting up signs detailing times and clamping fees outside those times, or by asking a court to issue an injunction against youpersonally (because you are the only one who takes the pee by parking in their intended customer spaces.)

I had in mind a picture of a building with an extended pavement sufficient amount of pavement to park a car on is within the curtilage of the property. The property is in effect 'set back' from the highway but the whole pavement is uniform and looks like it is pavement up to the building. In this scenario as long as there are no signs, yes you can park there whether it is your property or not. And the police will not want to know, as long as you can persuade them that it is within the property boundary. It will become a civil matter between the property owner and you.

IANAL

Raffles_3

So long as there are no public parking restrictions, he cannot stop you parking outside his house. If he thinks he has a case, he can try to get a court order to prevent you, but the onus is upon him to make the case. In the unlikely event of him getting the court order, here is the best bit. The court order would only apply to you. Someone else could come along and park there, and you neighbour will have to take the newcomer to court.

Poppycat

They dont have aright to a disabled parking bay outside there own home, you have to ask . It isn't easy to get a disabled badge either let alone a reserved space, I no I have been there, I had to appeal for my daughter for a disabled badge who is the holder and aint allowed to sue it unless she is with me, and I certainly dont reserve a space outside my home.

kittykate wrote:

Then if the space outside of your own house is not intended for your car then why do people have the right to paint a disabled parking space in it?

burbs_2

There really is no big argument here, can the OP park outside someone elses house, yes he can whether the home owner likes it or not. Fair? Probably not but life isnt fair. If the guy doesnt like it he will soon tell you and then its up to you to make a decision. Bottom line is you can park there and i would if i had the need.

As for those people who insist on putting their bins or these traffic cones to reserve parking spaces, they are annoying. They dont own the road and if i want to park where someone has stragically placed a bin or the like it will be removed with a swift boot and the parking space will be mine, sorry to all those who think it is a faultless plan.

Poppycat

We have the same problem 70 houses on our street, and only one side is reserved for parking, some residents have more than one car, we dont really get problems with shoppers, workers ist residents, visitors, workman who take spaces. Its murder finding a place and like last week a workman who was doing our patio doors had to keep driving around to find a space as he needed to be in an out of the van to get tools, bricks, etc.,

We also dont have a front garden, only a few feet of space between house and street and a small backyard, it bad on bin day they dustbin hate our street, they told me enough times.

ts_aly2000 wrote:

As far as residents permits go, in Cambridge it used to be an ABSOLUTE nightmare, since the council had no limit on how many they sold. So you'd come home from work and there'd be nowhere to park. Councils are well out of order for doing this. And where the hell are you supposed to put your bin with houses with no front or rear gardens? It took the local newspaper to get involved to sort that one out. There were split bin bags everywhere, it was utterly revolting, and this was less that 100 yards from the Grafton Shopping Centre. Lots of complaints.

Councils love to invent glaringly obvious solutions without understanding the causes.

Poppycat

I thinks its fair enough to reserve a space if you moving, or expect workman who say have heavy gear to shift to a space.

I remember moving in many years ago and got the Police to put cones down for removal van. You can ask them to do this.

burbs wrote:

There really is no big argument here, can the OP park outside someone elses house, yes he can whether the home owner likes it or not. Fair? Probably not but life isnt fair. If the guy doesnt like it he will soon tell you and then its up to you to make a decision. Bottom line is you can park there and i would if i had the need.

As for those people who insist on putting their bins or these traffic cones to reserve parking spaces, they are annoying. They dont own the road and if i want to park where someone has stragically placed a bin or the like it will be removed with a swift boot and the parking space will be mine, sorry to all those who think it is a faultless plan.

burbs_2

Poppycat wrote:

I thinks its fair enough to reserve a space if you moving, or expect workman who say have heavy gear to shift to a space.

I remember moving in many years ago and got the Police to put cones down for removal van. You can ask them to do this.

Thats fine and i understand that, its these people who assume because they own their home they own the road outside as well. They run out as their husband drives off to work and down goes the recycling box "no-one will have my space" she sings as she skips into the house, her task complete. Hubby returns on the evening and hops into his "reserved" space. They just annoy me.