Told I cannot park on unregistered land???

Aylesbury_Duck

If the neighbour wants to make life difficult they'll wait until OP is out and then park their car there, or buy a banger and park it there, or build a shed, place a skip or employ any other cheap measure to ensure OP can't park there. They have as much right to use the land as OP does, which appears to be no right. They have probably been advised by their solicitor that they can't do anything to stop OP parking there so if they're that bothered about their access that'll be their next step.

Sadly, I can only see this escalating until one party backs down.

luckyduck83

Aylesbury_Duck wrote: »

If the neighbour wants to make life difficult they'll wait until OP is out and then park their car there, or buy a banger and park it there, or build a shed, place a skip or employ any other cheap measure to ensure OP can't park there.
Sadly, I can only see this escalating until one party backs down.

Agreed, which is why I think the OP should go down the polite, friendly, compromise route.

Either party could make it very difficult for the other by dumping something on the land, but this would end in years/decades of bitterness between the parties. And all for a bit of free parking. Plus it seems the OP is unable to afford any legal proceedings, so getting on the right side of their new neighbour should be the priority.

luckyduck83

eschaton wrote: »

OP - can we see this map?

Unsurprisingly, the OP hasn't been forthcoming.

brianposter

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. It had never been an issue with anyone until the new neighbour bought that land.

Get a letter from the previous owner stating the period during which they parked on the relevant land, and stop mentioning rights of access in letters to solicitors. Take some photographs and make sure you do not lose that statement from the land registry about having shown first interest.

brianposter

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.

Lucky, when you go for a country walk, do you ring the land registry before parking your car ? What do you do at weekends ?

luckyduck83

brianposter wrote: »

Lucky, when you go for a country walk, do you ring the land registry before parking your car ? What do you do at weekends ?

I park wherever I fancy without checking whether or not I have permission because I once saw someone else park there and they said it was ok.

Scrapit

If the other party hasn't got a leg to stand on it doesn't matter if you are rude, polite or ignore them.

caprikid1

I had similar situation parking in a cul-de-sac on the road. It was a nice street un-addopted. It was not private just not adopted.


The neighbours called the police on me as I basically told them tough you cannot stop me parking there. In their deeds it stated no cars parked on the street.


Police came to the house I was visiting and threatened me with an "Action liable to cause a breach of the peace". So because the residents were a bunch of idiots me parking their was likely to upset them and knowingly doing so was an offence.


I did tell the policeman, can you tell me I cannot park their and I will move it, obviously he could not !

Car_54

caprikid1 wrote: »

I had similar situation parking in a cul-de-sac on the road. It was a nice street un-addopted. It was not private just not adopted.

For future reference, the road may have been private or unadopted (what's the difference?), but that doesn't give you carte blanche to park there. The offences of causing an unnecessary obstruction, and leaving a vehicle in a dengerous position (and probably others) still apply.

happyandcontented

Also, we live in an unadopted road and we own the land to the centre of the road so any parking is actually on private land.