Can my landlord force me to buy a parking permit?

Nobbie1967

Suck it up and pay £20. You are the one getting the benefit of not having unauthorised parking. You could aggravate your LL by insisting they pay it, or deducting it from your rent, or insisting they fight the leaseholder over the issue, but really? for £20?

Marktheshark

Write back opting out and reject thier contractual offer to join the scheme as you already have a contract to park which supersedes their offer.

Mrs_Imp

A gentle, non-confrontational chat with your landlord, and see how he is about it. He'll need to know anyway so that either he changes his next contract, or realises that some tenants will expect not to pay.

Marktheshark

You need to be aware that the parking firms targets for cashcows are you, the people that live there
Once they are in they will lie cheat, con, twist and milk the lot of you.
Tricks include ghost cars blocking your space forcing you to park somewhere else .
Ticketing cars saying no permit was displayed when it was.
Changing to new permits and forgetting to send everyone one and ticketing them.
And sharing the spoils with the corrupt bent management agents on the flats who will be doing the ticketing for a cut of the scam

mrginge

who are you actually renting from?
A private LL who is the actual leaseholder?

Who is actually inposing these charges?
Is the freeholder who's charging the LL, who is then trying to pass the charge on to you?

ManuelG

Nick_C wrote: »

Or for the sake of a peaceful life you could just pay the £20 and get on with your life.

Yup, I'd save the battles for those worth fighting. This one probably isn't.

Lunchbox

Marktheshark wrote: »

You need to be aware that the parking firms targets for cashcows are you, the people that live there
Once they are in they will lie cheat, con, twist and milk the lot of you.
Tricks include ghost cars blocking your space forcing you to park somewhere else .
Ticketing cars saying no permit was displayed when it was.
Changing to new permits and forgetting to send everyone one and ticketing them.
And sharing the spoils with the corrupt bent management agents on the flats who will be doing the ticketing for a cut of the scam

This is why it's worth fighting. The people we were paying for 'permits' would turn up regularly and ticket all cars in the car park, including those with permits displayed. The landlord may be very unhappy this is being introduced, particularly if he's already paid for the use of that space. It should be dealt with properly via the service charge and not directly outsourced to one of these predatory parking companies.

maninthestreet

Can you take a picture of one of the signs, and post a link to it - do these signs really refer to 'penalty charges' ???

D_M_E

You say the Estate Agents are imposing this charge.

Do they have the authority to do so?

Does your landlord know about this?

If your lease/tenancy specifies parking space included then I think you should not pay.

As others have said, you need to carefully read your tenancy/lease agreement and see exactly what it says about a parking space.

[Deleted User]

Personally, I'd pay the £20 and then discuss with other people living there and investigate whether this practice, and any fines that may be charged are in fact legal.

I wonder if there is a slight misunderstanding. Are you saying that an EA manages renting the whole block of flats (with TA's for everyone) and the same EA are charging for parking, or is it a different company to whoever rented the flat to you (like a freeholder or whoever manages the communal services) that is now charging for parking, separate from whoever manages the flat rental?

What you need to do differs depending on the answer. Obviously if the same EA that gave you your TA which doesn't mention a parking charge in addition to your rent is now trying to charge for parking, that's a lot easier to deal with compared to it being a service company separate from who you rent the flat through.