Unable to park

andycris3107

The town I live in relies heavily on parking permits. If you live in certain zones you can purchase a permit to park in that zone. Nothing unusual there.

The development I live in is brand new as is the road that leads up to the development that is part owned and managed by the development managers, the remainder is managed by the council.

The council managed part is double yellow lines - no parking at any time. The privately owned part is also no parking with private clampers patrolling regularly. Essentially the entire road is a no parking zone. To supply parking to residents the developers have built an underground carpark and now rent these out to residents at a cost of £1800 per year. Such is the outcry at the cost which is excessive even by local standards that of the 600 or so spaces only around 30 have been rented since the development was completed 18 months ago.

For the rest of us we have an ongoing argument with the council as we feel we should be included in one of the bordering resident zones (our road wasn't even built when the zones were created) and until then the nearest that we can park is around a mile away. This means that unless we're rolling in cash we have only the option of a 20 minute walk to pick up the car for every journey we wish to make. Shopping is a nightmare and any activity with the kids needs time added just to pick up and drop off the car.

Has anyone seen or experienced anything similar and been successful in appealing to their council?

tykesi

I doubt there are clampers on the private area. Clamping has been illegal in England & Wales since October 2012.

jc808

Why anyone buys these newbuilds is beyond me. God knows how much money for an asset with quick depreciation of 10% and they wont give you a parking space!!!!

OddballJamie

Did you now look into this before you bought the property?

Estate I live on luckily has loads of additional parking and every home either has 2 designated parking spaces or driveways.

I wouldn't have moved to a place that didn't have good parking, not worth the stress every night.

bod1467

tykesi wrote: »

I doubt there are clampers on the private area. Clamping has been illegal in England & Wales since October 2012.

And for even longer in Scotland.

forgotmyname

andycris3107 wrote: »

This means that unless we're rolling in cash we have only the option of a 20 minute walk to pick up the car for every journey we wish to make.

You forgot option 2. Dont move into that property. They probably gave planning permission providing that they had adequate off street parking so as not to take permits away from properties with no alternative parking.

Your fight for a permit maybe a long a fruitless one.

Live elsewhere.

Mistral001

The planning authorities, usually put parking pretty much at the top of their list when looking at such developments. That is probably why the underground car park was built in the first place. They are not cheap to build and the rent is going to be fairly expensive. I bet the estate agent did not mention parking.

WestonDave

You don't say where you are but the policy is the same where I live - a new built development with one parking space per car isn't allowed to buy residents permits for the street outside in order to avoid overcrowding the nearby streets and making those who pay for permits unhappy because there are too many permits for the available spaces.


It is something you need to look into before you buy - nearer home there is a 6 flat development that was built totally without parking. There are some on street parking spaces on the street outside but they were already oversubscribed and are very likely to become limited very shortly. If you can't get in those then because of road layouts and restrictions the next nearest available parking is quite a walk away.

andycris3107

OddballJamie wrote: »

Did you now look into this before you bought the property?

Estate I live on luckily has loads of additional parking and every home either has 2 designated parking spaces or driveways.

I wouldn't have moved to a place that didn't have good parking, not worth the stress every night.

I actually rent while most of my neighbours own. Those who bought property did so with an 'allocated parking space' while those who rent also have the same. However in order to USE that allocated parking space we need to pay additional maintenance of £1800 per year.

GwylimT

If you need parking live somewher with adequate parking, walking twenty minutes isn't a hardship at all.

OddballJamie

GwylimT wrote: »

If you need parking live somewher with adequate parking, walking twenty minutes isn't a hardship at all.

Would be interesting to know how it affects car insurance, as 20 minutes could get you in a different postcode.