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New build and parking spaces

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  • Titus_Wadd
    Titus_Wadd Posts: 512 Forumite
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    edited 28 July 2021 at 4:38PM
    A variation on a theme:  The "B-word" who built our house says we have to park a car in the garage instead of on the drive!  Yes I'm scratching my head too!  He seems to think there is an order of preference starting with the garage; then once the garage is full you can park on the drive!  I told him we've parked our lawn mower in there! :D
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    A variation on a theme:  The "B-word" who built our house says we have to park a car in the garage instead of on the drive!  Yes I'm scratching my head too!  He seems to think there is an order of preference starting with the garage; then once the garage is full you can park on the drive!  I told him we've parked our lawn mower in there! :D
    You are allowed to say "builder".

    He gets no say on where you park, unless it's specified in the covenants. If it is, then you agreed to it on purchase.
  • Titus_Wadd
    Titus_Wadd Posts: 512 Forumite
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    AdrianC said:
    A variation on a theme:  The "B-word" who built our house says we have to park a car in the garage instead of on the drive!  Yes I'm scratching my head too!  He seems to think there is an order of preference starting with the garage; then once the garage is full you can park on the drive!  I told him we've parked our lawn mower in there! :D
    You are allowed to say "builder".

    He gets no say on where you park, unless it's specified in the covenants. If it is, then you agreed to it on purchase.

    That's not the B-word I was thinking of ;)

    He's a very prescriptive chap with some curious ideas about how much control he has over the use of a house he'd built; we didn't buy it from new and no covenants on the subject. :)
  • teachfast
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    Why Titus_Wadd said:
    AdrianC said:
    A variation on a theme:  The "B-word" who built our house says we have to park a car in the garage instead of on the drive!  Yes I'm scratching my head too!  He seems to think there is an order of preference starting with the garage; then once the garage is full you can park on the drive!  I told him we've parked our lawn mower in there! :D
    You are allowed to say "builder".

    He gets no say on where you park, unless it's specified in the covenants. If it is, then you agreed to it on purchase.

    That's not the B-word I was thinking of ;)

    He's a very prescriptive chap with some curious ideas about how much control he has over the use of a house he'd built; we didn't buy it from new and no covenants on the subject. :)
    Does he care? Does he live on site?
  • Titus_Wadd
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    Nearer than I'd like! 

    Sorry OP I didn't mean to hi-jack your thread
  • daveyjp
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    Its no trick to have the garage as a parking space and may well be a planning condition.  Developers do it to meet density requirements.

    Many local authorities will also dictate how large a garage has to be to be classed a parking space.  6m x 3m is typical.

    If developers want a garage to be a parking space permitted development rights to convert garages to an extra room may also be removed as part of the planning conditions.
  • kasqueak
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    k1984 said:

    Surely they can’t class the garage as a parking space?
    What would you class a garage for if not for storage of a car or parking for a car? 
    That’s what garages are built for. 
    Yes the artists impressions can be misleading, but your house does indeed have 3 parking spaces and one of them is in the garage. 

    Same as my house - it has 2 parking space, 1 on the drive and 1 space in the garage. Now my garage is full of junk and therefore I couldn’t get a car into it as it stands. However when I move/sell one day I can say it has parking for 2 cars - because it does. 







    “Well, may I ask what you expected from
    your garage? The Sydney Opera House, perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically...?”

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  • 74jax
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    The op really needs to come back and answer questions, i asked if they signed and exchanged on a contract stating 3 parking spaces PLUS garage. The answer would help. 
    Forty and fabulous, well that's what my cards say....
  • AdrianC
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    74jax said:
    The op really needs to come back and answer questions, i asked if they signed and exchanged on a contract stating 3 parking spaces PLUS garage. The answer would help. 
    From what they've said, they exchanged on a plan that stated 5.2 x 5.0m + garage.
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