Told I cannot park on unregistered land???

EssexExile

luckyduck83 wrote: »

And the OP appears to be avoiding using the correct channels. Either stop using the land (that you don't own) and stop obstructing access to someone else's land, or employ a solicitor, do the research and put across your case for why you have a right to park on the land.

By the way, just because it's close to your house doesn't give you the right.

Have you read the thread thus far?

luckyduck83

EssexExile wrote: »

Have you read the thread thus far?

On and off, but admittedly I haven't read all 5 pages.

anyideas wrote: »

I cannot afford a solicitor after enquiring about how much it would cost!

If the OP can't afford a solicitor, stop parking there and the problem immediately goes away. There will be plenty of public parking nearby.

anyideas

Hello everyone,

I'm sorry if I'm causing a bit of a disagreement I wouldn't want anyone to fall out over my situation. It's bad enought that I've fallen out with the neighbour over this!

You are right that it is not my land but I have parked there for a very long time as did the owner before me. It had never been an issue with anyone until the new neighbour bought that land.

I had not try to trick anyone and carried on maintaining the spot where I park and had even put a few nice pavers down for when the weather has been bad. If someone had said to me I shouldn't park there as they own the land then that would be fair enough.

i don't have easy access to any public parking. To access my house you have to drive down a single lane road. There is no way of parking on here unless you block other traffic which I would never do. This lane is around 150m long and leads on to a public highway which has very few spaces to park.

You may think I'm lazy, but I would rather park next to my house so I can get children and prams into the car. It's a nightmare with children and shopping bags at the best of times... I did not think I was hurting anyone by following the lead of the previous owner. When I realised it was unregistered I did all I could to find out who it belonged to so I could make an offer (I was in a better financial position then).

I have been trying to do a lot of what you say luckyduck but without evidence of who it belongs to and from reading some of these very helpful posts I can only take ownership if I look to take adverse possession. It was suggested on here that I don't do this as I may cause a bigger problem so instead I just would like to keep parking there until or if the real owner ever tells me to move.

I'm not blocking access to the neighbours property but I suppose I am preventing them using the land as they feel they are entitled to use it.

luckyduck83

anyideas wrote: »

It's bad enought that I've fallen out with the neighbour over this!

This is the worst part. I've always gone out of my way to get on with my neighbours - they can make or break your hapiness at home.

Stop parking there and write an apologetic letter to the solicitor. If they own land close to your house, they could make your life miserable. Some things in life are more important than parking 6ft from your front door.

anyideas wrote: »

You are right that it is not my land but I have parked there for a very long time as did the owner before me.

But that simply doesn't give you any rights to continue doing so. It's no justification.

anyideas wrote: »

i don't have easy access to any public parking. To access my house you have to drive down a single lane road. There is no way of parking on here unless you block other traffic which I would never do. This lane is around 150m long and leads on to a public highway which has very few spaces to park.

You knew all this when you bought a house with no private parking space.

Mojisola

luckyduck83 wrote: »

On and off, but admittedly I haven't read all 5 pages.

luckyduck83 wrote: »

Stop parking there and write an apologetic letter to the solicitor.

Write and apologise to the solicitor of the neighbours who don't own the land?

Read the whole thread and understand the issue!

eschaton

This has dragged on and has already been answered but the OP realistically is only looking for an answer that suits them and doesn’t cost them.

If parking was so important, then why buy a house where the only reasonable place to park is on a piece of land that you don’t own.

It wouldn’t have been me.

facade

This may be obvious, and covered already, but have you checked your deeds and your ground map? If it were ever part of your property it will be in your deeds surely, and with some record of who it was sold to, if it ever was sold off.

luckyduck83

eschaton wrote: »

This has dragged on and has already been answered but the OP realistically is only looking for an answer that suits them and doesn’t cost them.

Agreed.

I feel like I'm being unsympathetic towards the OP, but there's no getting away from the fact that they're trying to control a piece of land they don't own.

It's amazing how many people seem to think they have some sort of right to park close to their house. I used to live on a road where people would leave cones on the road and put up 'no parking' signs to keep the space outside their house even though it was a public road with no parking restrictions.

happyandcontented

As long as you are not blocking access and they don't own the land I would not be bullied. Unless they can definitely prove that they own it, they are in the same position as you.

Mercdriver

Park as you normally do and get someone to take a photo of you with a long enough tape measure to measure the space available. If it is demonstrably wide enough for access then you can tell them to shove it...