Cars parking on private property?

Tilt

SLITHER99 wrote: »

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.

And? That dosn't mean that you still could not sue him. All you needed was images of the car being there. I'm sure the solicitors you used would of told you this.

paddedjohn

I would have just dragged it off the drive within an hour of it landing there.

SLITHER99

Tilt wrote: »

And? That dosn't mean that you still could not sue him. All you needed was images of the car being there. I'm sure the solicitors you used would of told you this.

I'm sure. I just wanted it done with so I could actually go through the a sale of the house.

muckybutt

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

Not legal at all and if reported you may well find yourself in court.
There are a few acts which would cover this, the main one being the Anti-social behaviour act.
This act which make it an offence to "damage property etc which involves only the painting or writing on, or the soiling, marking or other defacing of, any property by whatever means"

Also any damage doesn't have to be permanent for it to be illegal, which is why the Criminal damage act has been used to prosecute fly posters in the past.

Make life as difficult for the taxi driver as possible, but stick to doing things that are within the law and which won't end up with you getting into difficulties with the police or courts.

There is no damage being done though that is the point and why nowt can be done, if you were scrawling it on in thick black marker then yes thats crim damage like wise if you were to put it on the drivers door / paintwork then you could forsee potential serious damaged being done to remove it.

And do you really think the plod would prosecute for a civil matter which is what it is, they wouldnt give a toss.

As I said we did this regularly for nearly two years, plenty of times the police came after complaints, all they did was laugh at the drivers chipping the notices off the windscreens, basically backing us up saying dont park there again :rotfl:

SLITHER99

Plod were very clear that i wasn't to touch my blokey's motor! My solicitor even backed that up; all we could do was write him letters demanding he removed it or take them up the steps.

His single response stated that i gave him verbal permission. In his defense, when I said "This is my driveway, could you please move your car", I guess this could easily be interpretted as I didn't give a definite timescale as "could you please leave your banged up motor on my driveway for the best part of a year? I like parking a few roads away! And the sight of your scrap heap which gets dirtier by the week really does wonders for prospective house buyers!"

red_eye

lesalanos wrote: »

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

iron filings only work in the rain

gixer750

lets say he does have time and rings the police, they are not silly and could see it was delibarate and you are then getting booked

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

If he is boxed in and can't get his taxi out, the police won't do anything if the owners of the cars move them within a reasonable time.

Once the taxi driver has to start knocking on doors to find the owners and then wait for them to move their vehicles and the delays start costing him money, he may just find somewhere else to park.


You could always go to his house and park in his drive as you are unable to get into yours.

red_eye

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?

6 months and you could have asked dvla for the logbook?

CKhalvashi

confusedmummy wrote: »

Just out of curiosity, what did you do in your company when your cab drivers received complaints for behaving illegally or irresponsibly, for example, parking on private property?

Left 2 cars on standby after the same two drops on several occasions in the same street, knowing that there were jobs coming up in that area shortly. It keeps my bills down and keeps the drivers happy as they're not unnecessarily running around.

IMO it's better to do a 'drop and stop' than come back into town if you're on the airport side, as control could send you in three directions, one of which will send you back into town (£5), one of which will send you to the airport (£12 minimum, £80 2-3 times a week) and one of which will send you South (£20 minimum).

We own the cars, and the drivers pay £200+VAT each week plus a 15% commission. Alongside the maintenance costs of 5000 miles (£300) a year, it's the best business model out there, as I know that if there's no work/a driver's not working, the cars and the office get paid, the cars get replaced every 3 years, and if there is a large amount of work, we make large profits.

Just to clarify my first post, I've owned this company twice; once from 2004 to 2009, and bought its successor in March when it slipped back into administration. It's a tough game to crack, but I paid £2 for 2 companies (leasing and operations), and have created nearly £200k of equity (from £80k negative eq.) without putting a penny of my own money into it. It's going back on the market after Christmas at equity plus 2 years profit (Just under £5k a week), plus £50k goodwill.

CK

confusedmummy

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.

My god, that's nuts! I can't believe he had the cheek to do that. If I left a car on someone else's driveway I would assume it would be gone/smashed up/clamped within 24 hours. What a joke the law is!