House Parking Issue - Allocated parking space to the front of the property?

davenport151

The layout of your parking allocation sounds very much the same as ours.We have one space to the very front of our house and one two doors away (part of a block of three)
We were told the same as you on buying the property. This is our property and we are well within our rights to ask someone to move.

The neighbours opposite used to take the mick. They had a total of four cars (one driveway and one allocated space for them to park) and often used ours without asking. This was fine except when we had visitors.
The owner of next door (house rented out) did not realise which space was hers and always parked here until we had a parking bollard installed last year. Very reasonable and worth having done.
The people in the house opposite have since moved though!

added after reading cross posts -Would this not have been picked up by the solicitors who told you about the parking?

phillw

joshcrev wrote: »

Overall looks like even though it is in-front of my property, and included in my boundaries I don't have a right to tell anyone they should be keeping it clear, outside of just common courtesy.

You could do what the people who lived opposite did and managed to get a disabled parking space put in front of their house. They only have one car, which is always parked in their drive.

It's lucky they only use it for their able bodied visitors because if it was used all the time then it would make it difficult for me to reverse out of my drive.

About the only way you can prevent someone parking is to leave your car there. There is no such thing as common courtesy when it comes to parking & asking may provoke them into leaving a car there to annoy you..

G_M

joshcrev wrote: »

Had a look into the highways search, which does show that it is adopted highway.

Then anyone can park there (unless there are parking restrictions in force).

markin

I would advise next door not to advertise it with parking spaces, When it hasn't! The new owners may not be so understanding that its really a public highway.