How/can I Buy a visitor parking space

Mp1234

Hi all,

I bought a house on a 2008 devolpement Feb 2016, this property come with one allocated parking space and a general visitors bay for everyone to use.

The previous owners told us that everyone presumes the visitors parking space belongs to this house as they're no markings and we have since parked in the visitors bay without,

I've also maintained the visitors bay by cutting back the bushes and weeds etc...

Please could you advice if it would be possibly to purchase this visitors space and how to go about it?

marksoton

Ask the owner of the parking space.

Mp1234

How do I know who owns the space, they're is a building management company called mainstay who look after the developement, but countryside property built the development.

I guess I should contact both and see who has ownership.

davidmcn

What do your titles say about the visitor spaces? If everybody in the development has the right to use them then buying it may involve getting everybody to sign up...

mije1983

I'd be tempted to keep the status quo if there has never been a problem before with parking. Flagging it up to people may result in them realising they are in fact entitled to use the spaces!

Mp1234

Their is nothing on the deeds about the 1x visitors space. Just highlights my space,
yeah that was my Concern, by highlighting it's a visitors space, everyone would not allow me to buy the space and then start using it aswell, hush hush maybe be the best course of action.

frugalsmurf

I'd keep quiet.if they all think it's yours anyway there's no bonus to owning it, other than making it officially yours.
Just unofficially continue to use it and tell the next owner, as your previous owner told you.

michelle2008

I lived in a development where everyone had an assigned spot - then the rest were visitor spots.

There was plenty of space - and no one got uptight about who parked where, until one resident painted her number on a spot because she got upset others were using it. Turned out she had misread her deeds and got the wrong spot!! Caused a lot of bad feeling!

Like others have said leave well enough alone.

gregsayer

there is a small block of 4 x 2 story flats opposite my old house, with a large communal car park, (there is in fact 5 other communual car parks on the estate) https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Amderley+Dr,+Norwich,+Norfolk+NR4+6JH/@52.6074371,1.2618225,97m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x47d9e6b5b91d224f:0xa615ff0ae76bc889


the parking spaces are for use of any property that doesnt have its own drive / garage.
none of them are designated, or marked, apart from one old couple who've painted their house number on the floor.


if anyone, including delivery drivers park in that single space, within seconds the old couple appear and tell them to move, its quite funny actually to watch.


the really annoying thing is although, they have marked and parked in the parking area in the middle of the google map above, their actual property has its parking in the other area to the right!
(which they use for their second car)

moneyistooshorttomention

Best to forget about the idea of buying it and stop doing maintenance work on it.

Lying to people (whether by word or deed - ie just treating it like it IS yours even though it isnt) is not to be advocated. Even though your vendor lied to you in the first place.

It's a visitors parking space and that's that - and you might well land up with a severe "argument" with someone who knows very well it is if you try to pretend its yours.:cool:. Even a doormat type person might turn round and tell the whole neighbourhood about it and who it is that is trying to pretend its theirs...