Car Blocking my right of access to side gate to property & garage

swingaloo

l22eew said:

sevenhills said:

All the people with cars have got to try to be amicable, but you all need to park within the law. Which areas have official vehicle access?

Is the road maintained by the council, is anyone breaking the law?

Hence the reason for this post, as I would like to gauge others feedback on the situation.

1. The yellow line shows the access road to the terrace.  Possibly maintained by the council
2. The pink lines show the access to a lane that leads nowhere.  No idea who maintains this area.  I just tend to trim back and maintain my boundary line
3. The blue line shows my boundary (it does extend further back)
4. The red star is the area in question
5. The yellow star is the access gate

So how can a car parking by the red star block your access to the yellow marked gate? Is this not a case of not wanting your neighbour to park against your wall?

theoretica

Seems that a starting point is finding out where the boundaries are and who owns what, and what exactly the legal rights of access are.   Do you have legal right of access, or did someone just put a gate in the wall?

bluelad1927

Who owns the red car parked across the pink access lane. If anybody has done anything wrong....which I doubt anyway, then it's the red car not the car that you are complaining about. Putting a side access on your garage will only come at your expense to gain nothing. If that land at the side of the garage does not belong to you nothing will give you exclusive use of it.

However annoying the three car neighbour may be for you if they are not parking illegally or actually obstructing access there is nothing you can do. 

LightFlare

Looks as if you have used your bin to “reserve” a parking space.

Neighbour has moved your bin to park in that space

You are complaining about then not being able to make your bin available for collection.

All the other bins appear to be nicely lined up opposite the cars.

Coupon-mad

LightFlare said:

Looks as if you have used your bin to “reserve” a parking space.

Neighbour has moved your bin to park in that space

You are complaining about then not being able to make your bin available for collection.

All the other bins appear to be nicely lined up opposite the cars.

That's what it looks like to me, too.  Trying to use the bin to stop a car parking there.

I'd park there and would not consider it discourteous, going by those images.

l22eew

Thanks for the feedback all.

I was expecting the odd snide comment, but generally good to see what others think of the situation. 

Sadly, courtesy and consideration for others, is very hard to come by these days.

prettyandfluffy

Download your title deed from the Land Registry and the plan should indicate the extent of your landholding.  If you own the area in question you can ask others not to park there although it may be difficult to enforce.

sevenhills

l22eew said:

Now i'm aware I don't own the land where I park the car, but I was thinking about putting up a polite notice along the side of my garage wall.

So you have no rights at all for access to that land.

KeithP

sevenhills said:

l22eew said:

Now i'm aware I don't own the land where I park the car, but I was thinking about putting up a polite notice along the side of my garage wall.

So you have no rights at all for access to that land.

Is that a question or a statement of fact?

Without a question mark, I'll assume it's a fact, but based on what?

LightFlare

Looking at the pictures again - I think you need clarity on exactly what access rights, rights of passage and restrictions are in place.

Even though the pink road leads nowhere, it may have something associated to it in which case no-one should be parking/blocking at the end of it (with car or bin)