Allocated parking.

marshess

Hi, after some advice please. I have two allocated parking spaces for my property. On occasion, I have 3 cars, which are parked close together also using the path to my house. Not one of the cars overlaps a bay, you can even manage access to my front door. I have done this on the odd daytime since moving in to the property since August 2014. In fact, so do other people. Today a director of our management company has said I'm not able to do it.
Can they do this?
If I have two allocated parking spaces and stagger the parking, meaning room for more cars, without taking/overlapping anyone else's space, where's the problem?

If I can offer any information or links or answers to my question, I'll be very grateful.
Thank you! 😊

Fruitcake

What does your lease/tenancy agreement say about parking? In other words what does your agreement with the landowner say, not the MA.

safarmuk

Your post implies you have a house in a road/close/estate where there are parking bays, some allocated and perhaps some visitors.

Are there by any chance also flats in the estate area? Does the estate your house is in have communal areas? Is your house freehold?

marshess

Hi, thanks for your reply, there is nothing. Each space are numbered with the property it's for. There are signs up saying spaces are for owners and visitors only. Which my spaces are used for that purpose.

twhitehousescat

2 numbered parking bays = 2 cars (unless smart cars in londonia)

Fruitcake

marshess wrote: »

Hi, thanks for your reply, there is nothing. Each space are numbered with the property it's for. There are signs up saying spaces are for owners and visitors only. Which my spaces are used for that purpose.

Your lease/tenancy agreement trumps anything the MA director says. A third party cannot add on terms and conditions to an existing agreement with the landowner.

Have a look at the Jopson case on the Parking-Prankster's blogspot where a judge said just that.

missile

The Management Agent seems to have forgotten he works for you. Tell him to do one.

safarmuk

You reference a "Director" of your Management Company - what does the Management Company do and what does it oversee and why.

The_Deep

The Management Agent seems to have forgotten he works for you. Tell him to do one.


Actually, the Management Company works for the Head Lease Holder/Landowner.


Have you taken this up with the Residents' Association.

PasturesNew

I take it the allocated spaces aren't numbered, so not numbered as yours - and it's handy for you that you can quite often "grab" the two spaces adjacent to your own path and squeeze three cars on there, that nobody else could do as they don't own your path - and you couldn't do if you came home and somebody had already parked in those two spaces.

In short, without seeing the lease, he's miffed that you've thought of it and "are getting away with it" - and feels it looks untidy....

If there's nothing he can point to in the lease that prohibits this adventurous and creative use of space, then he can go do one... but if he can point to wording where it says that each car has to be parked within a marked parking bay then he's got you over the Smug Barrel.

One of you's being a smart-4rse... which one wins, we can only guess.

I wish you luck. I don't see anything wrong with what you're doing ... but I can see from his perspective that it might look a little "poor" and shabby.