Cars parking on private property?

Tilt

EdGasket wrote: »

As I had no response to my question, may I try again?
So do the new rules mean you can just park on someone's driveway with impunity so long as their car is out and you are not blocking a car in? If I come home late and can't get parked in the road, I can park in anyone's driveway that is free and there is nothing they can legally do? Is that what we are now saying?

You still have trespass law to use but you would have to take a civil action against the 'offending' person.

lesalanos

breadcrumbs on the roof, or iron filings spread in an amusing shape

pulliptears

CKhalvashi wrote: »

If it's one of our taxis, you WILL be prosecuted for every penny you cost us and our drivers, plus our costs.

You have no right to withhold your phone number, and our software (used by some 30% of companies in the country) will decode it. I know that the other large software supplier (about 25% share) has similar features.

Before I sold the old company, four youths ended up spending time in a YOI, and their parents ended up with a £26k bill for doing this.

CK

Call his taxi firm from a PAYG mobile

EdGasket

Tilt wrote: »

You still have trespass law to use but you would have to take a civil action against the 'offending' person.

Well to take out a civil action to get a car removed from a driveway could take months. So can I really park on a neighbours driveway whenever I like and sue them if they do anything to my car?

SLITHER99

I had some smart !!!! plank a dead old car on my driveway. Cops said that as the car was unable to be moved under its own power, there is no reasonable way to move it and it was therefore a civil matter. I was also told that if I did the moving for him, it would be criminal damage. Usual stuff of clamping and chains was also prohibited.

It sat on my drive for 9 months while I parked two roads away (similar situation with yellow lines in front of my house. One day it was gone, I parked there and immediately bought chains to put up.

If he hadn't had moved it, there would have been nothing I could have done. It cost me about £3000 in various solicitor letters to try and get him to move it though! However, he also sent me £2000 bill for damage to his bumper, bonnet and windscreen he claims I did. I did nothing of the sort, the car lay there untouched until he moved it. Don't get me wrong, it took everything in me not to take a baseball bat to it.

So to answer your question, if someone parks on your property, you have no way of getting them to either move it or desist from doing so.

You're not going to win this one.

Tilt

But you could sue them for trespass which would be calculated on the value of the land they are occupying and for how long.

EdGasket

"....and it was therefore a civil matter."
Is there anything short of murder that is not considered a 'civil matter' by the police these days? Pathetic. They are too politically correct for their own good and need to get back to a service based on common sense for the good of the public.

EdGasket

SLITHER99 wrote: »

I had some smart !!!! plank a dead old car on my driveway. Cops said that as the car was unable to be moved under its own power, there is no reasonable way to move it and it was therefore a civil matter. I was also told that if I did the moving for him, it would be criminal damage. Usual stuff of clamping and chains was also prohibited.

It sat on my drive for 9 months while I parked two roads away (similar situation with yellow lines in front of my house. One day it was gone, I parked there and immediately bought chains to put up.

If he hadn't had moved it, there would have been nothing I could have done. It cost me about £3000 in various solicitor letters to try and get him to move it though! However, he also sent me £2000 bill for damage to his bumper, bonnet and windscreen he claims I did. I did nothing of the sort, the car lay there untouched until he moved it. Don't get me wrong, it took everything in me not to take a baseball bat to it.

So to answer your question, if someone parks on your property, you have no way of getting them to either move it or desist from doing so.

You're not going to win this one.

That is almost too much to believe. 9 months of being denied use of your driveway and a £3K bill! Could you not have sued for loss of use of driveway, obstruction, stress and distress as you were using a solicitor?

red_eye

confusedmummy wrote: »

Can't do this as we would get towed or ticketed. That is why he is parking there in the first place, because he doesn't want to pay and the area immediately in front of the unloading area (private land) has yellow lines. He is being very clever parking here as he knows there isn't much we can do.

trolly jack under the rear axle and drag the car on the yellow lines or my favourite in between a lamppost and a bollard*

*funny to watch him inching backwards and forwards for 5 hours to get his car out

SLITHER99

EdGasket wrote: »

That is almost too much to believe. 9 months of being denied use of your driveway and a £3K bill! Could you not have sued for loss of use of driveway, obstruction, stress and distress as you were using a solicitor?

I'm sure, with another couple of £k to throw at it.

HE was claiming that he had my verbal permission to park there and, after a while, he just stopped responding entirely. He moved the car about six days before we were due to attend court.