New build parking

mldthundercat

I'm sure this has been bought up before many times but I've recently received a letter from the maintenance company that looks after our estate advising me that I should not be parking outside somebody else's house. Now I accept its not always great to look out of your window and see somebody else's car, but surely that is just part of new estates these days with the typical limited parking available.

I only have one allocated space and we have two cars, I am not blocking there pathway in the slightest.

They have a driveway, garage and space enough for two cars. What gets me is I'm not the only person doing this, there are cars all over the estate parking outside other people's houses!

It's surely classes as a public highway, no double yellow lines etc etc

Taken a picture here

https://www.flickr.com/photos/135215860@N05/21156743242/in/datetaken/

tomtontom

Why did you buy a property with insufficient parking? Are you not able to park outside your own property?

It's quite possible that the road is not a public highway - the management company will be able to advise you if that is the case or not.

GwylimT

On our estate parking is prohibited on all shared areas, unloading is allowed.

JReacher1

I would park outside someone else's house. It obviously annoys your neighbour and I assume they live near you!

loubel

What did the paperwork that you signed when you bought say about parking? It is not uncommon in new build estates for them to ban parking on common areas and roads (which are often kept private and maintained by a management company).

teddysmum

Being blocked paving, it doesn't look like a council adopted road.


Also,the car pictured is partly on the pavement and this does constitute an obstruction (to pedestrians).

pinkshoes

They shouldn't be allowed to build any property with only one parking space. It should be a minimum of two. I know they want to discourage car ownership, but cars are here to stay for a long while...

A friend of mine bought a one bed flat in Oxford with one parking space, and wondered why friends didn't visit - er... There was no where else to park!!

Johno100

teddysmum wrote: »

Also,the car pictured is partly on the pavement and this does constitute an obstruction (to pedestrians).

The pedestrians must all be sumo wrestlers around your way.:rotfl:

borkid

pinkshoes wrote: »

They shouldn't be allowed to build any property with only one parking space. It should be a minimum of two. I know they want to discourage car ownership, but cars are here to stay for a long while...

Even when people have 2 parking places they still want to park nearest their house. They are often too lazy to walk. On the new estate where I live the other houses have a garage and a space for parking in front of the garage, only one person uses their garage the other houses have at least one car parked on the road/ pavement and their visitors do likewise. We have a large drive enough for 6 small or medium cars and only have one ourselves. When we first moved in we offered to our neighbours the option for them or their visitors to use our drive rather than park on the road. Only two people have taken us up on the offer in 3 years.

marliepanda

Johno100 wrote: »

The pedestrians must all be sumo wrestlers around your way.:rotfl:

Someone with a large buggy would find it difficult, and definitely someone with a double buggy with the addition of the lamp post.

Its not just not to obstruct one skinny person from getting past.

mldthundercat

I appreciate everybody's comments thus far. I have looked into what I signed when I purchased the house and it does not state anything about not parking down the road, just that you can't obstruct others. The way I park I do leave plenty of room for people to walk past, including buggies. My niece uses a wheelchair so I understand how important this is.

I would had loved a house with more parking, but unfortunately the last few left on the estate only had one space. I work from 6am till late so it's not like my car is parked outside all day long either.

I am going to speak to the maintenance company tomorrow. If I have to move my car, I expect them to enforce it for everyone else down the road too, I can't see how they can just pick on me.