parking problems

clockworks_2 · 4 November 2011 at 9:02PM

I live in a block of flats. The first floor are offices occupied by solicitors. They have 3 parking spaces directly in front of the flat by a brick wall.
Instead of parking 3 cars they parking 8 in front of the building in areas , which aren't designated parking spaces.

Is there anything we can do to prevent them parking there and using the entire communal grounds in the front of the flat as their car park?

thanks

ormus · 4 November 2011 at 9:09PM

dont know.
i havent read your lease or the solicitors lease.
maybe they are the freeholders?

clockworks_2 · 4 November 2011 at 9:11PM

The solicitors are very chummy with the freeholders of the building. Do we have any rights?

keystone · 4 November 2011 at 9:39PM

Do you have allocated parking spaces which you are paying for and are they occupying them?

Cheers

clockworks_2 · 4 November 2011 at 10:49PM

They are not parking in our spaces. They had 3 allocated spaces (which they use) and then park all over the front communal areas which are not designated spaces.

Bogof_Babe · 4 November 2011 at 10:52PM

What do the residents of the other flats say? If it's a general issue then perhaps you need to approach the solicitors about it.

Innys · 4 November 2011 at 11:21PM

clockworks wrote: »

They are not parking in our spaces. They had 3 allocated spaces (which they use) and then park all over the front communal areas which are not designated spaces.

Based on this, I don't think you can do anything. If it's an communal area, it's the same as if they parked outside someone's house.

clockworks_2 · 5 November 2011 at 12:12AM

but if anyone else parks there (residents) they get clamped? How is this fair?

Innys · 5 November 2011 at 12:39AM

clockworks wrote: »

but if anyone else parks there (residents) they get clamped? How is this fair?

When you say "there" what exactly do you mean? If you mean the 3 spaces allocated to them, that's because the spots are, erm..............allocated?

If "there" is the other communal spots, they cannot be communal - they must be private.

For legal clamping to take place, the clamping firm must have the permission of the owner of the land. If the land is communal, clamping cannot be legal.

clockworks_2 · 5 November 2011 at 1:18AM

they park in their 3 allocated spaces and then park a further 5 cars in the surrounding ground. The communal spots are basically the drive into the rest of the car park and the entrance of the block. They park in front of that.

Am i right in assuming that the freeholder owns this land and as the owner of a flat i have no right over this?