Boring old parking issues with neighbours

Tofucakes

We live in a private close with designated visitor parking. Each house has their own garage (mostly double) and those that have single garages have a drive in front of it. It's a strange layout as it used to be a farm and so the boundaries of properties are a bit haphazard.
The bedroom accommodation in our property is single storey and so juts out into the close. The problem is our neighbour and his girlfriend (who has now just moved in and so has her own car) has taken to parking outside our bedrooms. Not only do they have a double garage (which incidentally houses 2 of his other cars) but where they are now parked (outside our house) is actually an ambulance track.
This track doesn't go anywhere other than is marked on the deeds.
In addition, my husband owns the house next door to us and I was wondering if legally, as a landlord we need to keep the ambulance track free?
Thank you

ic

If its a private road, I expect its entirely a civil matter. I'm not sure what an "ambulance track" (to nowhere) is?

On my house's original deeds (120 years old) it shows a road running down the side of my house, in later (and officially recognised by the land registry) deeds it shows the same land as what is now my driveway and another house - so the road never came to fruition.

Yorkie1

You'll need to look at your land registry plans to see a) who owns the land you're referring to [the track?]; b) what they say about your rights to use it; c) what they say about others having rights over it.

For example, it may say nothing about any restrictions on you, but that you must allow others the right to park on it. Or it might say that you and others only have the right to pass over it on foot (in which case parking isn't allowed by anyone). Etc.

However, irrespective of what it actually says, how are you going to enforce any rights which you may have on paper? It would be expensive and you'd have to declare it as a neighbour dispute if you ever came to sell. Think carefully about the bigger picture before taking any formal steps.

Davesnave

Yorkie1 wrote: »

However, irrespective of what it actually says, how are you going to enforce any rights which you may have on paper? It would be expensive and you'd have to declare it as a neighbour dispute if you ever came to sell. Think carefully about the bigger picture before taking any formal steps.

This is the nub of the matter. I live close to a similarly converted farm with 13 properties, and parking disputes are probably the number one problem the residents have. This is due to the same sort of haphazard layout and the number of short term renters who have no great investment in the place, monetarily or socially.

Think carefully about all the options/potential consequences before deciding on a course of action.