What rights do we have for our private parking space?

paddedjohn

I see what you're saying about blocking their car but if the op was crafty enough they would wait until they saw the police coming up the road and then unlock it.
Another point is that you dont need to be SIA to close your gates so why would closing the bollard (that was fitted months ago honest) be any different. If you parked on private land and returned to find the gates shut for the night i dont see what the police could do.

Norman_Castle

Great idea.. assuming you're an SIA licensed vehicle immobiliser.

http://www.sia.homeoffice.gov.uk/Pages/licensing-who-vi.aspx

Vehicle immobiliser activity only applies where it is proposed to impose a charge for the release of the vehicle.

System

And as it is a bollard in the ground the vehicle is not immobilised

yorkie18

The car has now been moved after I had words with said neighbour. Her excuse was 'but there was someone parked in the guest space'. Oh well, in that case I'm ever so sorry please go ahead and park in my private space. Absolutely fuming doesn't even cover it!

Thanks everyone for your help.

Weird_Nev

Just speak to her face to face and ask her politely and in a reasonable way not to park in your space because you need it when you come and go. And ask the same of your neighbour when her frineds come to visit.

Is it really so hard to just speak to people fface to face? THey're your neighbours! Facebook and horrid little notes on windscreens are not an approriate method of communication IMO.

s_b

i bet neighbour has learnt their lesson and wont let friends be so shell fish next time
i would drop it if i was op now everything normal

bluebird

We had someone block our drive by parking on the drive which leads to or garage,we blocked them in by parking behind them on our drive and made them wait the same amount of time we waited for them to return and move.
she wasnt very happy ....but she hasnt done it again either.lesson learnt.

TrickyWicky

yorkie18 wrote: »

Absolutely fuming doesn't even cover it!

Bloody neighbours, they're a pain in the a*** sometimes aren't they. I recently stored a car (SORN'd) on my neighbours driveway (with their permission) and their neighbour called the council in and reported it as abandoned, parked without permission, untaxed, never seen the car before in her life etc...

I got a very nasty letter from the council threatening everything from vehicle removal to jail time for false declaration of SORN etc. The land owner again confirmed they were happy for the car to be there and that it was their neighbour who had called the council (she's known for it apparently).

Anyway the council weren't an issue - I sorted them out with ease but what infuriated me was this old nag saying she had never seen the vehicle before in her life - it's only been parked outside her house for the last 1.5 years with her driving right next to it to get in and out of her drive. What annoyed me more was that she claimed she owned the land in order to get the council to attack me over it. She then claimed that the real land owner didn't even want the car there - and hadn't even spoken to them! Evil b!tch.

s_b

TrickyWicky wrote: »

Bloody neighbours, they're a pain in the a*** sometimes aren't they. I recently stored a car (SORN'd) on my neighbours driveway (with their permission) and their neighbour called the council in and reported it as abandoned, parked without permission, untaxed, never seen the car before in her life etc...

I got a very nasty letter from the council threatening everything from vehicle removal to jail time for false declaration of SORN etc. The land owner again confirmed they were happy for the car to be there and that it was their neighbour who had called the council (she's known for it apparently).

Anyway the council weren't an issue - I sorted them out with ease but what infuriated me was this old nag saying she had never seen the vehicle before in her life - it's only been parked outside her house for the last 1.5 years with her driving right next to it to get in and out of her drive. What annoyed me more was that she claimed she owned the land in order to get the council to attack me over it. She then claimed that the real land owner didn't even want the car there - and hadn't even spoken to them! Evil b!tch.

walks off doing a mutley laugh:rotfl:

calm down dear calm down think of the blood pressure;)

yorkie18

Weird_Nev wrote: »

Just speak to her face to face and ask her politely and in a reasonable way not to park in your space because you need it when you come and go. And ask the same of your neighbour when her frineds come to visit.

Is it really so hard to just speak to people fface to face? THey're your neighbours! Facebook and horrid little notes on windscreens are not an approriate method of communication IMO.

In my defence, I quite clearly stated that they were either ignoring me when i knocked on the door or they weren't in. I'm not sure how you propose I could ask them face to face! I only spoke to her in the end because I caught her outside after she'd moved the note when she obviously wasn't expecting me to go out! Also, I would have been a lot calmer about the situation if it had not happened several times before.