Can I put wooden posts right up to the road in cul-de-sac?

thebigstillmeister

Hi,

Wonder if anyone can help,

We live in a cul-de-sac and have a nice size bonus piece of land that runs down the left of our garages in a triangle shape

We moved in in Dec 2015 and i have mentioned on here previously about our next door neighbor using it as their friends and family's overflow car park. In a nut shell they made a quick feeble attempt to pretend that it was their's in the first few weeks we had moved in, but it clearly isn't and their/our deeds are 100% clear which we printed off and gave them at the time, so there is no dispute here and no more cars appeared.

Slowly but surely every now and then there is a car parked with two wheels up on the grass again (happened twice in the last week),.. we are pretty sure its usually their guests,.. What is annoying is that there is plenty of room to park on the road next to the grass without parking half their car on it.

I wanted to put in some short white posts every meter or so along the edge of the grass right next to the road to stop anyone parking on there from now on. Not concreting anything in, just banged in with a mallet,

There is a maintenance line (not sure if that's what you call it) a thin concrete line that runs around the front of everyones property about a meter or so inwards from the road, so cuts the end metre off of everyones drives/gardens. Alot of the other neighbors have planted plants up to this line then stopped, others have flower beds that go over this.

I believe this is just to allow access for utilities etc (our area is currently getting super fast internet installed and a big yellow spray paint mark has recently appeared in front of all our houses in this metre strip so they are able to dig this up to lay cables etc)

I cant even find the line in this piece of grass, probably buried under an inch of grass but you can follow where it would be with your eye.

So, apologies for the longest route to a question, but am I allowed to put these posts right up against the road, or would they have to be inline with the maintenance line a metre in?

many thanks,

ST1991

Pretty sure you cannot put anything on the actual pavement, but you can on your driveway/front garden. Unless i am misunderstanding? Otherwise you are blocking people from walking on it!!

Can you put them along your boundary from your house right down to where your garden meets the pavement, but not go on the pavement?

You could get some nice (cheap...) wooden edging to go along the boundary and possibly around other areas of your front garden too to show it is obviously yours.

thebigstillmeister

hi, thanks for the reply,..

sorry I might not have been very clear, there is no pavement between this piece of grass and the road,.. its just the grass, then a small brick line then the block paved road, so I want to put the posts in my grass, but right on the edge an inch from the road,.. but wasnt sure if i had to have these posts a metre in from the road where the maintenance line would run,

ST1991

thebigstillmeister wrote: »

hi, thanks for the reply,..

sorry I might not have been very clear, there is no pavement between this piece of grass and the road,.. its just the grass, then a small brick line then the block paved road, so I want to put the posts in my grass, but right on the edge an inch from the road,.. but wasnt sure if i had to have these posts a metre in from the road where the maintenance line would run,

if they aren't blocking the pavement, and other neighbors are doing it, there is nothing to stop you!

Plus, if they are only hammered in, they are easily removed with a quick 'Whoops, my neighbor did it so i thought i could too!'

thebigstillmeister

thanks,.. that's what I am thinking,

Just wanted to cover myself in case the neighbor got a chip on their shoulder and contacted the council or one of their guests try and park on it and scratch their car then try and blame me saying it I am not allowed to have them there,

ST1991

thebigstillmeister wrote: »

thanks,.. that's what I am thinking,

Just wanted to cover myself in case the neighbor got a chip on their shoulder and contacted the council or one of their guests try and park on it and scratch their car then try and blame me saying it I am not allowed to have them there,

Hmm.. didn't think of that! Hopefully someone else will be along in a sec for a 2nd opinion. Perhaps use something that can't damage/scratch a car - like a few plant pots?

Chrishazle

You might find that the area between the concrete property line and the roadway has your services under it - which is what we have in our cul-de-sac! When the building plots were sold, the borough council retained ownership of a strip about 1m wide between the roadway and the concrete boundary line, under this strip are the water, electricity, telephone and gas lines, at different depths but the shallowest maybe only 30cm down! I'd be a bit leery of hammering anything into the ground in that strip between the concrete line and the roadway. In one part of our cul-de-sac the property owners have put signs on this strip saying "do not park on here, gas main underneath" trying to stop mothers on the school run (we have a primary school at the corner) abandoning their chelsea tractors on the grass - with limited success!

mrschaucer

If the land is yours - shown on your deeds - all the way to the road, then surely you can do whatever you want with it subject to any restrictive covenants on it - which would also be shown on your deeds. Are there any?

stator

You don't need planning permission for a fence under 1m right next to a highway. So just put in some posts and tie them together with some rope or string to create a fence. (This doesn't apply in a conservation area etc).

Money_maker

Some peeps round our way use extra large rocks, you could paint them so they can be seen in the dark.

HiToAll

dont go to the expense of a fence post, just buy a few boxes of drawing pins and accidentally drop them all over your lawn.