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

GaleSF63

Any neighbours selling their house/flat might not be happy. 

If I were viewing, and a nearby residence had a rotary dryer in their parking space, it would bother me; not necessarily the washing itself, but the suggestion of someone close by who didn't care about getting on with their neighbours. 

Morrigan_2020

sammyjammy said:

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.

You have a phobia of drying laundry?

eddddy

Leeannero1 said:

Looking to buy a new home, it has two allocated parking spaces that come with the property.
 There is no garden and no where to hang washing. Can i legally put a rotary washing line in one of the spaces i own?
Im thinking surely because i own it i can do what i want with it. But im not sure if this is something neighbours can protest and legally stop happening?

In a previous post you mentioned that you were interested in buying a particular flat. If you're still talking about that flat and it's in England or Wales, it's almost certainly leasehold.

The lease will almost certainly say that you can only use the parking spaces for parking cars.

(Otherwise people could leave old fridges, sofas and baths in their parking spaces - which could make the parking area look like a rubbish dump.)

greatcrested

Morrigan_2020 said:

sammyjammy said:

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.

You have a phobia of drying laundry?

Are you using 'drying' there as a verb or an adjective?

Or both...?

oystercatcher

Personally I would rather look at a line of laundry outside my house than a car ! OP check the deeds carefully I have heard of some newbuilds where there are covenants against people drying laundry even in their own gardens never mind the parking space. I think your idea is brilliant as long as there isn't so much traffic that it would make your laundry mucky. I'm probably weird though, but I don't care !

leonj

I don't think you own an allocated parking space, they would just call it a driveway if that was the case

NameUnavailable

I expect there's something written down to say that the parking spaces must be used for parking vehicles only (there may even be rules as to what type of vehicle and that they must be roadworthy etc).

Could you fit the rotary line on the roof I wonder?

GDB2222

I must say I love the wild goose chase the OP has started. First class troll material!
Obviously, this all depends on the documentation. Have we seen that? No.

Davesnave

GDB2222 said:

I must say I love the wild goose chase the OP has started.....

Geese! That's a great idea! I'm sure there's something in the Allotments Act that trumps any other legislation, even covenants, where one's right to keep poultry is concerned.

About ten years ago, the proprietor of my local garage decided to run some geese on the unused land in front of his premises since the developers of the trading estate were clearly disinterested in building more units. To my knowledge, no one complained or tried to steal the birds, so they grew and  flourished....until Christmas.

They can still be seen on Street View. It seems Google don't get down this way much.

EDIT: Apparently, The Allotments Act only applies to chickens and rabbits, so maybe only a few hens would be possible, but still, think of waking up to a fresh egg every morning, like I do!

zemarcopolo

amandacat said:

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

Was this intended to be a joke?