Neighbours parking in private space

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krlyr wrote: »

Yeah, I'm trying the friendly note route first as I know some people react defensively. I have a feeling that the owner of the car has gone on holiday (so probably parked in my bay to allow their usual space to be used by someone else in the household) as it hasn't moved since Sunday night/Monday morning, on closer inspection I'm fairly sure it's the car regularly parked in the other bay so I've left a friendly note on that car too asking if it is their car and if it can please be moved as I need the bay today. Neither car/note had moved when I popped home for lunch though..possibly the household has gone away which would be frustrating.

I've typed a new note (in a plastic wallet now weather has turned) with location of the actual visitor bays as I figured I'd probably react better to a friendly note with some helpful info than I would a nasty note or sticker. On the plus side, it's stopped the other neighbour parking in my spot so maybe it'll have broken his habit by the time they get back and move.

I ignore notes left on my motor. I might occasionally take them off others cars just to see what's getting their goat that day. Highly amusing.

Novice_investor101

Without wanting to sound rude, this sounds a bit like wanting your cake & eating it.
If you have an allocated space you own, then use that to park in & leave the public highway available for anyone to use - as is their right. No one can "reserve" a bit of public highway as private parking just because it is outside their house.

CardinalWolsey

Novice_investor101 wrote: »

No one can "reserve" a bit of public highway as private parking just because it is outside their house.

Er - they're not "reserving" a bit of public highway as private parking. What they do want is for other people to stop using their actual private parking as public highway.

Aylesbury_Duck

CardinalWolsey wrote: »

Er - they're not "reserving" a bit of public highway as private parking. What they do want is for other people to stop using their actual private parking as public highway.

Agreed, but I see the point being made. OP was using a communal space because it was more convenient and was keeping her allocated space empty for potential visitors. Nothing technically wrong with that of course but if she parked in her allocated space all the time then the person using her allocated space would have to roam and find a communal space, perhaps the one outside OP's house. I think it is cake-and-eat-it territory and whilst OP is doing nothing wrong, it has arguably contributed to the problem she now has.

warby68

In simpler terms, the neighbours may well have sussed out by now she is a one car household and prefers to park outside rather than in her space so the odds are quite good someone else can snaffle that space quite easily.

I'd alternate for a bit, unless of course you're home all day as you are quite aware of various comings and goings, then it looks a bit weird lol

EdGasketTheSecond

Just install a lockable post; job done.

DoaM

EdGasketTheSecond wrote: »

Just install a lockable post; job done.

Presuming that this doesn't breach any leasehold conditions or covenants for the estate.