Woman had a go at me this morning

adouglasmhor

bigjl wrote: »

Well I think it is unlikely that any local authority would miss out on an opportunity to make some free income. Therefore I would suspect that that every local authority would have a similar rule.

Every local authority that I know of has the same rule.

And since most of these are in Greater London I would suspect that it is in much wider use than you may think.

Obviously a London thing then, it's certainly not an offence here as I had a spiteful old witch who doesn’t even have a car report me to the police for parking in front of her chained up driveway in a residential area in Glasgow. They told her I was not breaking any law and it was not her road.
Only if it has a painted white line is it enforceable here and in most of the UK.

Flyboy152

bigjl wrote: »

There is a management company that maintains the parking areas and all the roads in the development as they have not been adopted.

As far as who owns the ground then I would suppose the freehold may be owned by the developers.

However the spaces are designated on the deeds to your property, a flat with a car parking space was £10k more, the space this knob uses is an allocated visitor space and you can't park in it for more than 12 hours, though this is obviously never checked.

When I said no owner I was obviously not saying that it is a space with no legal owner in anyway.

But, then I thought by saying it was a visitor space was enough detail for a post on an internet forum.

Not when you state there is no owner to the land, one who can enforce any restrictions. Clearly, as the space is intended for visitors, who should not park there for more than twelve hours, someone has taken the time to decide this. As you have now established who owns the land, perhaps a quick call to the freeholders is in order. Or you could ask the parking m4fia on the other forum.....


Oops! sorry, they only advice people how to get away with parking for free on someone else's land, so no help there.

adouglasmhor

Someone once blocked my car in a driveway owned by the pub I was in by double parking in Birmingham. I bounced their van onto a double yellow line nearby and called the police. They were towed away within 10 minutes. It was a private parking enforcement companies van.

Flyboy152

jjww wrote: »

Hi my father in law lives near a large hospital and has his workvan parked in his back yard (up north you don't have driveways you have back yards lol or off street parking in estate agent speak).

A few years ago somebody parked blocking the gates to the backyard after a few days of trying to find out whos car it was he phoned the police as a last resort they came out put a ticket on the car but said it would have to be there for over 7 days before they could remove it.

After 5 days someone eventually moved the car that was 5 missed days of work for my father in law.

I always park to ensure I am not blocking gates, driveways and dropped kerbs etc. any other space is fair game in my opinion.

Did he catch the selfish git?

jjww_2

Flyboy152 wrote: »

Did he catch the selfish git?

Yeah he had been at the hospital was only expecting to be there for a few hours ended up being there 5 days, don't know why he couldn't have given one of his visitors or rang a friend his car key and asked them to move his car.

Happened again a few months later with a different car but the owner had left in unlocked so we just opened the door took the handbrake off and pushed it 2 metres where it would not be blocking anyones gates.

I don't understand why anyone would be so inconsiderate.

bobthedambuilder

jjww wrote: »

Yeah he had been at the hospital was only expecting to be there for a few hours ended up being there 5 days, don't know why he couldn't have given one of his visitors or rang a friend his car key and asked them to move his car.

Happened again a few months later with a different car but the owner had left in unlocked so we just opened the door took the handbrake off and pushed it 2 metres where it would not be blocking anyones gates.

I don't understand why anyone would be so inconsiderate.

Should have pushed it onto a double yellow line like adouglasmhor.

adouglasmhor

You bounce it on it's suspension and push at the same time, I have even done a transit van on my own that way.
I also got a couple of us to do it to another van which was blocking a narrow bit on a bus route, while the local copper checked a side street (I knew him and suggested he didn't want to see what we were up to), he came back and said good they moved it, call closed after the bus and the rest of the traffic had started moving again.

kirsty37

No u were not being unreasonable! I am currently going through this saga myself. I park on a daily basis on a "free for all" street. I have been verbally abused, glared at, had notes stuck on my car etc... The residents have even been to the local paper and they ran a story on it, i promptly wrote a reply to the letters section of the paper. It is a PUBLIC ROAD, the spaces are not THEIR SPACES. I have previously lived on a street without reserved parking and yes it is an inconveiniece when someone else parks in front of your house but these people should be aware when they buy that there is no reserved parking! What gets me most about the street where i park is that most of the residents have garages and driveways at the back of their houses!
You keep parking exactly where you want to!

Marvel1

No restrictions parking there then it's a public highway and anyone can park there.