My Parking space 🚗

TELLIT01

Before considering any paid arrangement check with the management company that such an arrangement is permitted.  If you then proceed with either a paid or free arrangement, you MUST make it clear in writing that this is an informal arrangement which may be terminated at any time and without notice.

another_casualty

Le_Kirk said:

What about when/if you move and the people/person who buys your property? What do they do if you have given your neighbour rights to park OR what does your neighbour do if you move and someone else wants the parking space back?

Good point ! 

another_casualty

Thanks so far for your input .
That’s the thing with cars . Most people seem to have more than one these days .

There are so many arrogant chancers when it comes to parking and claiming what’s not theirs . 

One thing dawned on me ; it wasn’t the landlord of that tenants place to mention my space at all. 

When I had a red van mysteriously park in my space back in my previous home, the driver left me a note and I agreed to let him use it ,
Come Christmas 🎄 I got a card but no 🥃 whisky. This annoyed me , so I paid a company to install a collapsible bollard.
He never saw that coming 😺

I’m thinking of maybe buying an old banger and getting it dumped in my space . The collapsible bollard crossed my mind again .
That may make me unpopular in the block, not that I’m popular/ unpopular anyway. 

If I ignore the letter, the woman may decide to park and I’ll complain . 

I did think about replying advising her I’ve not yet decided. 

I doubt if I’d lose my rights to my own space , but that may well be the excuse I could use to not let anyone use it.

One other thing to mention; the director next door has 2 cars and being neighbourly and with him being a director I did offer him my space a couple of times and he declined .

There are 2 visitor spaces out there and the director plus new tenant have filled those .

People.. don’t you just love them ?!?

Gavin83

To be honest being a director (of what, the management committee I assume?) they should know better than to permanently park in a visitor space. That’s the exact type of behaviour they should be preventing!

Honestly in your shoes I’d be careful about this and would probably say no. As you mentioned a lot of people are very unreasonable about parking. While it’s nice she wrote to you rather than just taking it (most wouldn’t bother) it’s quite likely she’ll get a sense of entitlement over the space. What if you do get a car? What if you have visitors? What if you sell?

I wouldn’t worry what they think personally. They have no rights over your space. Also their landlord had no rights to discuss your space with them. I suspect they mentioned they had multiple cars and the landlord went “It’s OK, that flat doesn’t have a car, you can park there.”

If they wanted multiple parking spaces they should have moved somewhere with multiple spaces or rent one.

Silvertabby

What happens when you have visitors?  

We have a double drive / one car, and new near-neighbours with a single drive and 3 cars (yes, they bought the house knowing that) have asked if they can 'rent' a space.

Our answer was no, because we have visitors / trade vans etc.  We do let other neighbours use the drive when they have a lot of visitors or workmen   - but am reluctant to offer that to this chap because something is telling me that he would abuse it - ie, park there every time it was empty.

aoleks

It’s not clear from your post what the letter said. Was the lady asking for permission to use your parking space?

if so, as long as you draft a proper contract, regardless of price (there are better whiskys out there), you should be ok.

TELLIT01

If you want to make it clear to everybody that your parking space is not available for others to use whenever it suits them you can get free standing 'No Parking' bollards.

rach_k

I'd put the space on a parking rental site/app and then you can just direct her to that if she'd like to rent it.  If she doesn't that's fine but you've given her the choice.  If she does take you up on the offer, she'll not come to see it as her space as it'll be very clear she's renting it.  

another_casualty

TELLIT01 said:

If you want to make it clear to everybody that your parking space is not available for others to use whenever it suits them you can get free standing 'No Parking' bollards.

Sounds a good idea. Not sure of cost etc..Also would I have to request permission from managing agents ?

another_casualty

Thanks for the continuing output and advice . I’ll probably have to give my response tomorrow to the tenant concerned.
Fwiw, I don’t drink at home . Well, very rarely 🥃😬🤥, but it is the principle that I should get back something in return.

Anyway , having the only empty parking space does make me stand out like a sore thumb , and maybe look selfish.
Having ( and in my case not having) a car brings out the worst in people

I was thinking of replying and saying that I need the space for tradespeople as I am doing work to the flat and potentially selling up so my space is not disputed at any time 🤔

more ideas appreciated..