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Can u own a visitors parking space

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  • Guest101
    Guest101 Posts: 15,764 Forumite
    Sometimes people sequestrate public parking spaces simply because they are adjacent to their home. Close to me there is a gable ended house. On the gable end is two parking spaces. The owners have put up no parking signs and taken them over.

    Hope you still park there??!!
  • C_Mababejive
    C_Mababejive Posts: 11,668 Forumite
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    Guest101 wrote: »
    Hope you still park there??!!
    I would do but it isnt that close to my house. I am thinking of causing some mischief though !
    Feudal Britain needs land reform. 70% of the land is "owned" by 1 % of the population and at least 50% is unregistered (inherited by landed gentry). Thats why your slave box costs so much..
  • theGrinch
    theGrinch Posts: 3,133 Forumite
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    Again, I reiterate that this is not true. The land will be owned by someone. It may well be unregistered, impossible to establish who owns it etc. But it does not just exist in some nebulous 'communal' otherworld.

    in my experience usually owned by the freeholder and unowned by the leaseholders. This of course is the general case, but not true for every situation.

    In large blocks it tends to be the case, but in smaller developments and house conversions there is some degree of sell off.

    check your lease and contact the freeholder if in doubt.
    "enough is a feast"...old Buddist proverb
  • SG27
    SG27 Posts: 2,773 Forumite
    Get the title plan off the land registry. Any freehold spaces will clearly marked. If its a visitors space it sounds to me like its on a private residents parking area. Which would mean that you would have to pay an annual fee for the upkeep to the freeholders and you get an allocated space and a visitors space. If this isn't the case I can't see why there be 'visitors' spaces. It would be either be your house has two freehold spaces or the parking is public on council property and no one has a legal right to over any of them.
  • Mrs_ted
    Mrs_ted Posts: 54 Forumite
    Who told you it's theirs?

    The Estate Agent!
  • Mrs_ted
    Mrs_ted Posts: 54 Forumite
    Guest101 wrote: »
    The simple quetion is, is this space on your land or not?

    Half the parking space is on our land, the other on our future neighbours. That's how it looks to me. Its a town house and half of the second parking space sits outside my kitchen window. The Estate agent informed us it is a visitors space owned by our neighbours who have an additional 2 parking spaces as well.

    Our future neighbours across the way park over two spaces so I think there is some conflict going on over ownership of parking space!!!

    Thanks for all you advice:money:
  • freeisgood
    freeisgood Posts: 554 Forumite
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    Ooh I would like to find out how this one resolves....do keep us posted.
  • Mrs_ted
    Mrs_ted Posts: 54 Forumite
    freeisgood wrote: »
    Ooh I would like to find out how this one resolves....do keep us posted.

    So...... the EA informed that our soon to be next door neighbour owns a visitors care parking space where part of this parking space sits outside our kitchen window.

    Paperwork from our solicitor: No visitors car parking exists we own the section right outside our kitchen window. The other half we assume our neighbours own.

    Will be very interesting when we move in!
  • Dimey
    Dimey Posts: 1,434 Forumite
    I hope your solicitor is going to lock this down tight so you are sure of the size of the bit you own.

    Does the neighbour need right of way across your bit to get to their bit - or vice versa?
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  • freeisgood
    freeisgood Posts: 554 Forumite
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    Ooooh.

    Time to put some nice large and heavy flower pots along your "half " of the non existent parking space pronto, me thinks!
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