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

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  • DRP
    DRP Posts: 4,287 Forumite
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    19lottie82 wrote: »
    enforceable or not, the whole idea seems a bit extreme and expensive / drawn out, when a chain or bollard would be a lot simpler and effective.

    exactly.

    who would be willing to take charge of administration, enforcing of the fines etc ?
  • 19lottie82
    19lottie82 Posts: 6,030 Forumite
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    DRP wrote: »
    exactly.

    who would be willing to take charge of administration, enforcing of the fines etc ?

    and attend court?
  • Gordon_Hose
    Gordon_Hose Posts: 6,259 Forumite
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    Yeah, so lets just forget about parking tickets.

    Bollards/chains all the way!
  • 19lottie82
    19lottie82 Posts: 6,030 Forumite
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    http://www.esedirect.co.uk/p-1412-padlock-folding-parking-posts.aspx?Source=Google&Medium=cpc&Campaign=Shopping&vatsetting=1&gclid=CPWM5uewsbgCFdQgtAodRm8AJg
  • tim123456789
    tim123456789 Posts: 1,787 Forumite
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    Errata wrote: »
    Criminal damage? Superglue can easily be removed without damage, as every hospital A&E knows.

    perhaps it can, but case law says that it is still criminal damage

    tim
  • Dan-Dan
    Dan-Dan Posts: 5,278 Forumite
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    reason number 489 not to live in a block of flats if you can help it
    Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
  • tim123456789
    tim123456789 Posts: 1,787 Forumite
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    Gordon_Hose wrote: »
    In English?

    Private parking ticket are not enforceable in court.

    If you have your warning signage nailed down (should that be up) correctly, yes they are

    tim
  • tim123456789
    tim123456789 Posts: 1,787 Forumite
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    spacey2012 wrote: »
    Rubbish.
    Just because Parking eye are issuing claims does not mean they will win any.
    Case Law exists on why they are difficult to enforce.

    What little case law that exists does show that they are enforceable.

    However, commercial parking companies doesn't actually take enforcement action, not because they wouldn't win, but because it costs them more in staff time preparing their case than they would win back in compensation. It's better business for them to write off the awkward customers and spend the time writing more tickets (some of which will be paid).

    But a resident's association trying to frighten away rogue parkers does not have this business consideration. Their time is nominally free and the reward that they are seeking is availability of parking spaces, not monetary compensation.

    tim
  • tim123456789
    tim123456789 Posts: 1,787 Forumite
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    Gordon_Hose wrote: »
    Yeah, so lets just forget about parking tickets.

    Bollards/chains all the way!

    and whose going to unlock the chain/bollard when the health visitor come to see housebound biddy in no 23?
  • DRP
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    tim123456789 wrote: »
    and whose going to unlock the chain/bollard when the health visitor come to see housebound biddy in no 23?


    Presumably they would only bollard off the visitor's spaces...which are currently unavailable anyway due to being filled up by non-residents!

    I agree though, there isn't an easy solution that will suit everyone...
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