Advice on parking rights on an unadopted road.

xangelx

Hello!

I am just putting a question out there and hoping for an answer even if it's not the one I want to hear

I recently mortgaged for a new build property on a recently completed housing site.

Our house is the end house of a row of 6. The road when we were purchasing was advised to be unadopted land and my self and other residents would need to pay the upkeep. As our house is the last on the end there are two bollards which sesperate from the other houses and their stretch of unadopted road. Our neighbours from the other side of the road have begun driving down our road as I believe it is easier than driving all the way round and have begun blocking our drive way.

I just want to know if I have any rights and can advise my neighbours of this before I send a letter. As I said, this road isn't adopted by the council and I pay a fee for it's up keep. Not only is it annoying when I come home to being unable to park in my drive way, but it is so rude and unnecessary to obstruct our drive way. It's not as if we can park further down the street as our neighbours have to also pull out of their drive ways.

Many thanks for any advice of knowledge!

peter_the_piper

I'd start with a friendly note saying you would like to get in and out of your drive. May solve the problem without too much hassle.

Avoriaz

The first thing to do is to knock on their door and have a polite and friendly word with them.

They may not realise what they are doing.

Don't mention anything about rights etc, just calmly explain how their actions are impacting you.

Most people are reasonable about things like this. If they are unhelpful then post again.

Strider590

A medical emergency or three, at 3am might make them think twice.....

dacouch

Do you have a dropped kerb into your drive?

artbaron

As soon as you send a letter or even raise the issue then it's a dispute and you have to declare it when moving house, and a parking dispute could knock a fair old chuck off your selling price. So bear that in mind.

I'm probably not permitted to post it on this site but the above answer should give you an indication of how I personally would solve the problem. I have no sympathy for lazy, ignorant people and as such as I have no respect for their property.

mjoneseyjones

artbaron wrote: »

As soon as you send a letter or even raise the issue then it's a dispute

What a load of rubbish. The entire country would be in dispute with each other and too terrified to speak to each other if that was the case.

op - have an informal chat, point out the issue and see how it progresses from there.

Captaincodpiece

artbaron wrote: »

As soon as you send a letter or even raise the issue then it's a dispute and you have to declare it when moving house, and a parking dispute could knock a fair old chuck off your selling price. So bear that in mind.

I'm probably not permitted to post it on this site but the above answer should give you an indication of how I personally would solve the problem. I have no sympathy for lazy, ignorant people and as such as I have no respect for their property.

I don't think that's correct.

It's as soon as the disputed becomes official and is recorded. Or are you saying if your neighbour supports a rival football team and you are in disputemon Derby day it devalues your home?

artbaron

mjoneseyjones wrote: »

What a load of rubbish. The entire country would be in dispute with each other and too terrified to speak to each other if that was the case.

What a bizarre thing to say. Are you drunk?

Captaincodpiece

artbaron wrote: »

What a bizarre thing to say. Are you drunk?

Are you?

Your posts suggest the odd sherry has been consumed.

artbaron

Captaincodpiece wrote: »

I don't think that's correct.

It's as soon as the disputed becomes official and is recorded. Or are you saying if your neighbour supports a rival football team and you are in disputemon Derby day it devalues your home?

No, clearly I'm not saying that, don't be a tool. And it's not true that it's only a dispute if officially recorded. Do some research on the matter before you comment. Now if the OP talks to his neighbours and they say, "OK, we won't park there again," then clearly there's no dispute. But I can't imagine that's going to happen. Sending a letter is without question recognised as a dispute and would need to be declared when selling, even if the neighbours had stopped parking there immediately.