Parking Space of Neighbour is Slightly in our Property

HampshireH

Ive lived in a flst before where the neighbours space was right next to mine but their space was directly infront of my bedroom window.

Great fun being woken at 2am by headlights and his radio.

However as its your kitchen you will be far less impacted but still there will be unloading, kids outside your window, headlights etc.

More worrying is that you only have a right to use your space and you don't own it. Do you lease it instead? You need to check this because otherwise you may never get parked and thats a far bigger worry than headlights in a kitchen window.

katkatmachine

Yes, we just have the right of use of the parking space, we dont own it. Basically, all of us who bought houses in the development just have the right of use of the parking space that we are allocated to. And in the plan we can see which space is allocated to us so i trust all the new homeowners will respect it.

After much deliberation with my partner and taking into account the comments given here, we have concluded that the parking space is not a deal-breaker:

1. Our parking space is in front of our house, next to us is the neighbour’s, there is an overlap of just around 1 foot facing our house. Apologies if i cant explain it properly. Would be easier if i can post the photo.
2. The headlights of the neighbour’s car won’t really affect us since the light will just probably come into our cloakroom. It will not even reach the kitchen.
3. As some of you guys pointed it out here, we cannot really change the plan of the development since it was already approved in the planning permission.

Thank you very much guys for providing your thoughts in this issue. Really appreciate it.

Cakeguts

How many cars do you think each of your neighbours will own? If anyone owns more than one car you can guarantee that you will never be able to park in your allocated parking space. It will always have someone else's car in it. The problem is that you don't own it so you cannot force them to move.

m0bov

What happens if a caravan appears there one day or a car that someone is "working" on. If your bothered enough to ask about it, will you have the same issues when you sell?

RelievedSheff

Cakeguts wrote: »

How many cars do you think each of your neighbours will own? If anyone owns more than one car you can guarantee that you will never be able to park in your allocated parking space. It will always have someone else's car in it. The problem is that you don't own it so you cannot force them to move.

This is a very good point. All of the houses on the development we have moved onto have at least two parking spaces, most have two and a garage, yet still there are cars littered all over the street and people parking really incosiderately.

One parking space per property really isn't going to be enough and you can expect some issues with over spill parking at that.