Expert Advice on Parking needed..

Lovelyjoolz

Hi guys

I apologise in advance for the mammoth post, but I really need advice, from the 'other side' so to speak.

Our company car park is shared with two other businesses (A and . We each have a proportion of the spaces allocated to us. A & B have marked their spaces with their company names, only our spaces remain unmarked. Our LL is different to that of business A & B. My LL will not allow us to 'deface' the kerbstones by attaching a name plate so we are unable to mark our spaces. There are also no signs up at all to say where parking is allowed.

The number of spaces allocated to us is enough for our staff plus three visitors. Roughly the same for A & B. However business B seems to be constantly interviewing and having meetings and presentations and their visitors almost always park in our spaces because B's staff take up all their allocated spaces.

So every day is a constant round of phoning B with such requests of "ask the blue corsa to move out of our space please". And when I say constant, I'm talking 20 - 30 times a day. I don't have time for this. My staff don't have time for this. And it winds me up like you wouldn't believe! Sometimes business B will say "oh no, that's not one of ours" only for someone to come out of their office several hours later and drive off in the car we asked them to move. This is especially problematic when we have visitors too, as you can imagine. We are each responsible for our own spaces. All it takes is for A & B to tell their visitors to park only in spaces marked A or B. Simples! But this just doesn't seem to work in practice.

My question (I knew I'd get there eventually!) is really, if clamping is now illegal, how can I solve this problem?

Any ideas?

Oli.s

Buy some traffic cones or similar free standing structure, attach some laminated signs to them with word to the effect of 'parking for company x employees / visitors only??

hoohoo

a) Park in their spaces for a few days?

or

b) If you run out of spaces, always double park to block the most senior B employees cars in.

Once it gets heated, suggest a meeting to discuss how to resolve the situation.

27col

hoohoo wrote: »

a) Park in their spaces for a few days?

or

b) If you run out of spaces, always double park to block the most senior B employees cars in.

Once it gets heated, suggest a meeting to discuss how to resolve the situation.

Yes, A bit of their own medicine will certainly produce a response of some kind and tend to concentrate the minds of the offenders.

Half_way

Can you put up temporary signs? as in a sign afixed to a stake in the ground/soil?

Another option would be fake clamping/enforcement signs, totaly un enforcable, but they may just be enough.

taffy056

Will your landlord allow parking posts ? Or do as post #2 and buy some cones I think you can even get them with your company name on if you look around

Sirdan

hoohoo wrote: »

a) Park in their spaces for a few days?

or

b) If you run out of spaces, always double park to block the most senior B employees cars in.

Once it gets heated, suggest a meeting to discuss how to resolve the situation.

A yes

B - er no not clever I think technically that would be a criminal offence as per Section 54 of POFA 2012 which creates an offence re immobilizing ,including blocking in !