Can i do what i want with my own car parking space

jimbog

comeandgo said:

I can’t see how this would work.  Your items on the line would get grit or dust blown on them and fumes when cars start.  Would there be enough clearance for large towels and sheets to dry?  

Owners of neighbouring parking spaces may object to your clothes fluttering over their parking spaces

greatcrested

Still not enough information to give you a legally reliable answer.

1) Is your property freehold or leasehold?

2) is the parking space part of the property ie is it included withing the red(or other relevant colour) boundary on your Title Plan?

3) Or is it on a different Title, to which you have rights eg access for parking? Iff so, is that a leasehold or freehold title an who owns it?

4) if 1) above is freehold, and 2) is "yes", have you read the property Title? If yes, are there any covenants in Parts 2 or 3 of the Register? If yes, what do they say?

5) If 1) above is leasehold, is the space included in the leasehold Title Plan? What does the lease say regarding parking and/or that space?

gwynlas

Now that we are out of the EU it would look odd as only there do they have washing lines strung across the streets to dry their clean laundry. In this country airing your underwear is akin to washing dirty linen it in public

wilfred30

What's it got to do with the EU?  Besides, that's not true anyway, there are plenty of poor areas/council estates in the UK where people might do that.

Falafels

I used to rent in a coastal town where most of the flats had no outdoors space. The local launderettes were very much in demand - you used to meet really interesting people there - and the local population went around with their apparel appropriately dried. 

No rotary clothes dryers in parking spaces as far as I could see; indeed, those brave souls who tried drying their laundry on the balconies were taking their lives into their hands, what with the high winds, seagulls an' all....

tink_1983

When we had no garden we had a heated airer from Lakeland. Been going years and cheap to run. Use it all winter now to in a house 

Alan2020

On a more constructive note, there are other options to economically dry clothes. What you can do is have a drying room (you can obviously use an airing cupboard)
two things are needed:
1. A fridge type dehumidifier (it has a pump like a fridge)
2. A radiator (optional but speeds up if room is ice cold)

Hang clothes and ideally set the room to 21C and in 8hours you have really lovely dry clothes. Dehumidifier I use is 230W, a typical household dryer is 2500W, and will need 2 hours to dry that 8kg load and crumple it. You will use about 40% power and clothes dry overnight, comes nearly ironed if you hang them properly.

sammyjammy

gwynlas said:

Now that we are out of the EU it would look odd as only there do they have washing lines strung across the streets to dry their clean laundry. In this country airing your underwear is akin to washing dirty linen it in public

I admit its not common but there are still streets of back to back houses in Leeds where they do still do this, they also have no pavement in some so their front door opens into the road,  I went there once to look at a car, very scary.

swingaloo2

Im sat looking out of my front window and I can see next doors car parked out there.  I dont mind that but I wouldnt want to see next doors sheets blowing in the wind. That would really get on my nerves.  Im not sure I would want a neighbour who didint care what anyone else thinks either.

amandacat

I only use my washing line from April to September on the days it isn’t raining. Anything hung out outside those months is never really dry and needs finishing in the tumbler anyway.
When I lived in a flat with no tumbler, I used clothes horses and the hangers you attach to the radiators, managed fine this way. 

Another option is to attach clothes to the back of your car or bike and ride around for a bit.