How to get rid of illegal parkers in communal areas of flats?

luminated

I can't believe this is happening again as it has occurred too me more than once before.

Basically there is about 50 flats with named parking spaces for each & in addition visitor parking with a "Private No Parking" sign on each. The visitor parking is not for flats to have a second space, if they have two cars, but for occasional visitors like their guests, tradesmen, Doctors, etc. Visitors must display a sign saying which flat they are visiting but with Doctors, Nurses % the such this is obviously relaxed.

Every now & again we get rogue parkers & have several at the moment from nearby who have no parking spaces at all with their properties. There is regularly between one to three of their cars in our Visitors Spaces. Sometimes they put a bogus note on display quoting a flat they are visiting but they are not.

I've heard, via the grapevine, they feel they can get away with this indefinitely as there is no laws they are breaking that could be enforced against them.

So whilst we have thought (very imaginatively at times :rotfl:) how to deter them the sole purpose of my post is to ask is there any law we could quote when leaving a letter on their window screen that may just make them rethink they could be prosecuted.

xylophone

Sometimes they put a bogus note on display quoting a flat they are visiting but they are not.

Could the flat owners not club together to have "permits" printed for each of the flats - when the visitor arrives he is given a permit to display inside his car and returns it to the owner when he leaves?

any law we could quote

Trespass on private property?

Errata

A polite note asking them to park courteously superglued to their windscreens should do the trick.

DRP

Errata wrote: »

A polite note asking them to park courteously superglued to their windscreens should do the trick.

or placed on their driving seat.

19lottie82

To be honest, I don’t really think there is anything that you can do.



My friends stay in a block of flats with a private car park and used to suffer from the same problem.

In the end they just got a vertical pole put up in the middle of the entrance to the car park, to stop cars entering,but those with a key, could unlock it, lie it horizontally, so they could enter, then raise it back again. The cost was split between the home owners.



A cheaper solution could be a chain, with a padlock, across the entrance?

fionajbanana

The simplest idea is for someone in the flats to create signs in the same font and design 'visiting no 12 Chestnut Mews' and if a visitor, plumber etc parks in the vistors' parking bay, they got to display that.

Contact the flat management company - some are useless than others and see if they can put warning signs about fining people etc. Sometimes a sign may put these drivers off.

DRP

So you all club together to get signs, but what happens when someone just ignores that?

you either need to get a clamping firm involved or prevent them parking there in the first place by putting up a lockable bollard or chain.

System

Errata wrote: »

A polite note asking them to park courteously superglued to their windscreens should do the trick.

You always get somebody advocating criminal damage. Why not go the whole hog and suggest keying the offending vehicle as well?

19lottie82

DRP wrote: »

prevent them parking there in the first place by putting up a lockable bollard or chain.

a bollard that's what I was trying to describe in #5 but my brain doesn't function so well on Monday mornings!

I think this is your best option tbh.

Errata

!!!!!! wrote: »

You always get somebody advocating criminal damage. Why not go the whole hog and suggest keying the offending vehicle as well?

Criminal damage? Superglue can easily be removed without damage, as every hospital A&E knows.

Davesnave

!!!!!! wrote: »

You always get somebody advocating criminal damage. Why not go the whole hog and suggest keying the offending vehicle as well?

Agreed, but I used to find olive oil on the side windows a very effective deterrent. It causes only a temporary but very annoying problem for the errant driver.

Obviously, it could go on the windscreen, but that would have safety implications out of all proportion to the problem.