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

cajef

DRP wrote: »

you either need to get a clamping firm involved

Which since October last year is illegal, new legislation banned clamping on private grounds.

DRP

cajef wrote: »

Which since October last year is illegal, new legislation banned clamping on private grounds.

:iloveyou: In which case, OP forget that idea!



:silenced:

System

Errata wrote: »

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

Providing you have the correct items to do it with. I don't know about you but I tend not to carry the stuff to remove superglue, unlike hospitals who have it ready to hand.

It IS criminal damage the same as keying. Light keying can easily be removed but it is still criminal damage.

Brock_and_Roll

Many years ago when i suffered this problem, I used to pick up a doggy doo doo with a plastic bag then under cover of darkness gently apply a little smear to the undersides of the drivers door handle. I can assure you that you only have to do this once!!

propertyman

Have a sign made up

USERS OF THESE VISITOR BAYS MUST DISPLAY A CONTRACTOR OR VISITOR PERMIT SUPPLIED BY THE FLAT OWNER

FAILURE TO DO SO RESULTS IN A TICKET BEING ISSUED WITH A PENALTY OF £X
REPEAT OFFENDERS WILL BE SUMMONED TO THE COUNTY COURT TO SEEK PAYMENT OF THESE PENALTIES

This is the legal solution and tickets and signs are available on line. Once several tickets are issued and stack up its worth making a money claim online.

Parking you car and blocking them in always works too. On one site we have a moratorium on parking in these spaces between 8.30am and 9.30 am and 5pm and 6pm at which time removable drop posts are put in @ £60 each. The users are inconvenienced and do not return.

GM11

nice cheap simple solution, you can get stickers made up with something like please do not park here, make sure you buy the ones with security glue, they are designed for car glass and take ages to remove!! dont place right in the vision zone on the windscreen but put one on each side window and one IN FRONT of the TAX DISC they have to remove the tax disc one as the offence is one of not DISPLAYING road tax
they soon get the message no damage is caused by these stickers they are made for the purpose, but they are a PITA to get off

19lottie82

propertyman wrote: »

Have a sign made up

USERS OF THESE VISITOR BAYS MUST DISPLAY A CONTRACTOR OR VISITOR PERMIT SUPPLIED BY THE FLAT OWNER

FAILURE TO DO SO RESULTS IN A TICKET BEING ISSUED WITH A PENALTY OF £X
REPEAT OFFENDERS WILL BE SUMMONED TO THE COUNTY COURT TO SEEK PAYMENT OF THESE PENALTIES

This is the legal solution and tickets and signs are available on line. Once several tickets are issued and stack up its worth making a money claim online.
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I'm fairly sure these charges are pretty much unenforceable, there are plenty of threads on the subject.

And besides, surely a chain and padlock across the entrance would be a lot less hassle?

Gordon_Hose

propertyman wrote: »

Have a sign made up

USERS OF THESE VISITOR BAYS MUST DISPLAY A CONTRACTOR OR VISITOR PERMIT SUPPLIED BY THE FLAT OWNER

FAILURE TO DO SO RESULTS IN A TICKET BEING ISSUED WITH A PENALTY OF £X
REPEAT OFFENDERS WILL BE SUMMONED TO THE COUNTY COURT TO SEEK PAYMENT OF THESE PENALTIES

This is the legal solution and tickets and signs are available on line. Once several tickets are issued and stack up its worth making a money claim online.

Parking you car and blocking them in always works too. On one site we have a moratorium on parking in these spaces between 8.30am and 9.30 am and 5pm and 6pm at which time removable drop posts are put in @ £60 each. The users are inconvenienced and do not return.

This would only ever be a threat. Parking tickets from private firms are nothing but invoices and can't be enforced in court.

Yeah, you might get a few who pay out of fear but generally it doesn't take people long to figure out the threat holds no weight.

propertyman

Gordon_Hose wrote: »

This would only ever be a threat. Parking tickets from private firms are nothing but invoices and can't be enforced in court..

Nonsense and they are having done it many times in recent years.

N1AK

There's very little that can be done legally to force people not to use the spaces short of making it impossible (some kind of obstruction that only owners/visitors can circumvent). In theory they are trespassing but doing anything about that won't be simple.

The windshield notifications with security glue are probably a good solution. It is a minor, non-damaging, inconvenience and is a proportionate response. If that doesn't work then I would suggest grouping together to get a gate, removable bollard or whatever.