Misrepresentation of Driveway

AnotherJoe

Small_Yeti wrote: »

The spots are allocated in that everyone has one allocated spot (or in our case two) but the allocation boils down to "somewhere over there". So yes, if someone was parking two cars when they have one allocated spot we could bump them out. In reality though...

How would you know whose car it was ? What happens if you track it down to say a house three doors down that is a four car family, and they just park their cars in any old space, including the space that silvercar thinks you should always leave free? OR ista visitor or soemone who parked there and has gone off for the day... or a week.

How does anyone else, such as visitors, lodgers, even know there are allocated spaces? Unless they are numbered to the house, I think very few people will abide by rules that are in your deeds, they will be more likely to think "ooh looks that's lucky there's a free space right in front of that house there lets nab that" !!

I once lived in a street of terraced houses with parking on both sides of the road, and it was manageable because there was no allocation. Where my daughter lived with a more restricted area for parking which in theory was for their houses, it was a nightmare with cars parked higgledy piggedy all over the place from nearby houses with poor parking, or even if they had parking it was mum and dad and a couple of teenagers and so a lot of cars.

There's absolutely no way anyone would have respected an open parking space. An open space was room for them to park their car, not a sign not to park there !! (and if you dont park there what use is it? If you want to claim it as yours you should park in it as much as you can!)

Small_Yeti

Hi Cakeguts, we know the area very well. It's a mixed bag to be honest. Hopefully as it is only people that live in that area that park there everyone would respect it to a degree.

Another Joe, I know what you're saying but seriously every house we look at would have something. I suppose I could live with the parking and if it was a real problem happening with one person every day I would know pretty soon and could have a word.

Jimmy_Neutron

Is it just me or is anyone saying to themselves "Post a Google maps link so we can see what you are talking about?"

If you don't want to reveal the street name do a screenshot and edit out any revealing details and then post the image.

Smodlet

Our current residence is the first place we have lived without off road parking for a very long time. It can be a nightmare. Until the DS of those over the road moved out, he could, with his one car, disrupt the entire street for hundreds of yards.

Our side of the street has no off road parking, the opposite side does purely due to the slope of the street. Further down, where it levels out, both sides have off road parking. We could have the front garden converted to off road parking but only at a significant cost.

The delightful people over the road could actually fit three small-to-medium sized cars on their driveway, if they so chose... Apparently we are "lucky they do not park all three cars on the street"... This is the mentality of the lowest common denominator, which can be found everywhere, regardless of income bracket.

Since the DS left there have been few, if any issues with anyone parking in our part of the street however, it still annoys the hell out of me that day-time visitors invariably park on our side of the street so as not to inconvenience the (often vacant) driveways of those opposite.

Small Yeti, I understand this is your dream area but parking can cause major resentment/disputes. If you will forgive me, I think you are so darned nice you may possibly need a nudge to stand up for your rights... assuming your property actually conveys them. I wish you all the best with your purchase but do feel you should re-negotiate the price, given the restrictions you are now aware of.

Harper123

Having a driveway doesn't always solve your problems. My old house had a driveway but when the owner/visitors of the house across the road parked in front of his house it blocked my drive and made it very difficult to get in and out! Drove me mad.

swingaloo

Its not just a case of other home owners though. Ive just this last week moved from a house which had 2 spaces to park which were shown on the deeds but you cannot just 'bump' someone off when they park there.

Ive had tradesmen who were working at other houses in the close, Ive had next doors sister who came to stay for 3 weeks and parked outside mine meaning either us or our son had to park in the next street. She never moved the car from arriving to leaving 3 weeks later and upon asking her to remove it I got told 'Its either outside your house or someone elses so would you like to choose whos house I should park outside and I will tell them you sent me'.

Christmas Day I retuned home from work at lunchtime to find I had no chance of parking anywhere in the close as everyone seemed to have visitors. It turned out that the 2 cars outside our house were not even visiting in the close but in the next road and did not leave till the day after Boxing Day. On that occasion I got told that as there were no marked bays they would park where they liked.

It really may seem like quite a trivial matter at the moment but three months after you move in you will be sick of it. I would look elsewhere or you are going to be so frustrated, so often.

AnotherJoe

Small_Yeti wrote: »

Hi Cakeguts, we know the area very well. It's a mixed bag to be honest. Hopefully as it is only people that live in that area that park there everyone would respect it to a degree.

Another Joe, I know what you're saying but seriously every house we look at would have something. I suppose I could live with the parking and if it was a real problem happening with one person every day I would know pretty soon and could have a word.

But I thought your issue was that you paid more for this due to it having allocated spaces ? So now you've got worst of both worlds, it's more expensive and more hassle?

As to your second point, what's your answer if it's not the same person, or you can't find the owner, or you "have a word" and they say " i pay my road fund license so I'll park wherever I want". ?

So there are two different things here.
1. Are you prepared to buy a house without allocated parking? Maybe you are given all the other compromises you have to make, I understand that.
2. Given that compromise, are you prepared to pay the extra you were paying only because you thought you didn't have to make that compromise?

Niv

Parking politics was a key reason I moved from my previous place. Think very carefully about this. Allocated or not, if you have 2 cars in your household then a visitor comes round what are you going to suggest to your visitors? That they park a few streets away or nab whatever they can? Then 'technically' you have 3 spots, how many people can do that before there is chaos?

We had a situation where one house routinely had 3 cars then the kid got a boyfriend so four cars for that house most of the time, plus the odd car that rarely moved and the bloke that fixed cars as a hobby.

None of that was there when we moved in but by the time we moved...

pinkteapot

Small_Yeti wrote: »

I suppose I could live with the parking and if it was a real problem happening with one person every day I would know pretty soon and could have a word.

If they were parking in an unallocated space - even one right outside your house - they're doing nothing wrong so there's no point having a word...

moneyistooshorttomention

I am watching "parking politics" in my road. There are houses that have parking that belongs to them (including mine). There are houses that have no parking space - either allocated or not allocated - and they just park where no-one should basically.

I watch it all going on and the agrro between the ones without parking spaces and am just glad I'm out of it personally and my only concern is whether I have to "ask them" to move from my ROW (ie if one of my visitors needs to use it for access to my property).