Parking space woes

hazzie123

I thought you needed a license to be able to clamp and charge a fee for removal of the clamp?

irnbru_2

Redbedhead wrote: »

They also regularly park to block our driveway so when we come home from work we can't use it.

AFAIK, they're perfectly entitled to block your driveway if you don't have a vehicle on it.

Speak to the police to determine if it's an obstruction or not.

Carter_2

irnbru wrote: »

AFAIK, they're perfectly entitled to block your driveway if you don't have a vehicle on it.

Speak to the police to determine if it's an obstruction or not.

Nah, that is not correct. The Highway code says:

217: DO NOT park your vehicle or trailer on the road where it would endanger, inconvenience or obstruct pedestrians or other road users. For example, do not stop
in front of an entrance to a property

So whether they are home or not, it is still wrong and very, very rude and inconsiderate to do so.

POSSETTE

Ooooh this gets my goat!!!
We had it at our first house,our space was right next to house with just a footpath between the two.
We used to get a white van and car park in our space regularly from a visitor to the house 6 doors down.
We got !!!!ed of with it, so my first move was to get some white paint and write our house number on the tarmac space...worked a little..then put a sign up saying private space....but the thing that really worked was blocking his !!! in by parking our car 1" off his bumper.

I even watched him (laughing from bedroom window!)come to move it and it took a 50 point manouver to get out, he didnt have the nerve to come and ask us to move our car.But it worked.No more hassle since then.

just watch out for any damage done to your vehiecle if they get a nark on.Be watching if poss.

free4440273

this happened to me on a regular basis in my previous house/street. the occupiers of the adjacent house were renting and tenants would move in/out on a regular basis. this is often a problem when you are living adjacent to non-permanent residents - they just ain't bothered. thank heavens i have a really huge drive now, in a far better area i.e. posh The OP does have my sympathies, especially as you have been so diplomatic.

scrummy_mummy_2

Have exactly the same issue with a property I rent out...I photocopied my Transfer Title Document and wrote a letter to all the residents who share the parking bays identifying who owns what, so we were all singing from the same hymnsheet. Generally the properties change hands regularly and the new owners are rarely familliar with the intricacies of the Deeds!....read the text that goes with your Title Deeds though because this contains the covenants which may allow rights of access across each 'owned' space by all the other owners...that'll stop you (legally) from putting up a parking barrier. It does on my deeds!
Your only real hope is to ask him why he thinks it's his space/communal and attempt to show him in writing that it isn't.
If he then refuses to play...park in his allocated space.:rotfl:

dawsonio

You could always buy an old banged up caravan and dump it permantly in his space apart from the old 2 days a year when you take it out for a camping trip. That would teach him.

lush_walrus

I had a similar problem a few years ago, and sorry if this has already been suggested and I missed it, but I dealt with it by putting a copy of my deeds on the car with a request not to park there, and problem was solved.

It's worth a try if they are simply not believing you.

Redbedhead

irnbru wrote: »

AFAIK, they're perfectly entitled to block your driveway if you don't have a vehicle on it.

Speak to the police to determine if it's an obstruction or not.

when they block our driveway they do actually park on part of it and also block the pavement completely. As there is only pavement on our side of the road it means they are blocking pedestrian access as well, so I don't think they are allowed to do it.

irnbru_2

Redbedhead wrote: »

when they block our driveway they do actually park on part of it and also block the pavement completely.

In which case you have an unnecessary obstruction. The police will deal with it.