Allocated parking - what are my legal rights?

movilogo

I have recently bought a house which has an allocated parking (as per deed I own the land on parking space as well).

It is a housing estate where most parkings are allocated. But there are some spaces which are not allocated and anyone can park there (first come first serve basis).

All houses have only one allocated space to each of them - though most households have multiple cars (though I have only one).

After moving to the house, I was irritated to find that in most days, someone else parked their cars in my allocated space. I had some trouble explaining my neighbors (some of them are tenants and they don't understand the meaning of deed etc. One guy even claimed since he has used the space for last 3 years, it can't be someone else's :mad:) Most other residents don't bother using their own space as they have multiple cars, they all actually use each other's space. So, most cars have no fixed parking space and often remained 2 of their wheels on footpath!

After few days, I had marked my space with my house number (another resident did the same faced with same problem). Now most of my neighbors understood that that's my space, but still sometimes some visitors park their cars in my space!:o

My question is, can I fix a padlock there or I need council's permission for doing it? I'll do it only as a last resort as I don't want unusual attraction (my car is quite ordinary though).

Gallovidian

Install a lockable bollard to protect your property. This only touches your
property and therefore is no-one else's business. Clamping touches the
property of others and is IMHO unethical.

PasturesNew

Get one of those annoying posts that you lock up when you're not using it. Pain in the bum though.
And bullies will call you anal, but it IS important. You thought it through and bought the space you needed. Yet bullies will say it's not important (when they park in your space).

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/34974/Security/Vehicle-Security/Parking-Posts/Bolt-Down-Parking-Post

So, that's the only way to attempt to protect it, but you'll still have bullies being annoyed they can't just use your land to park. And they might even be tw4tty enough to park in front of it anyway

funguy

You can put a polite notice under the offending vehicle to say this is an allocated space and the car will be towed away if parked there again - then if the same car is parked there again - call the local towing garage to take it away. Are you able to fix a sign to a wall next to your parking spot to say the above?

movilogo

PasturesNew wrote: »

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/34974/Security/Vehicle-Security/Parking-Posts/Bolt-Down-Parking-Post

I'll use that only as a last resort :rolleyes: Just trying to sort it in an amicable manner.

BiggaThanBen

firstly call a parking attendant .. after a couple of fines issued people will remember not to use your space and advise guests to do the same ..

padlock would be a more reliable solution though, just call your council and ask, there are different rules in different places

chopperharris

Get proof of your legal entitlement , contact council and inform of the use of bollard and if its considered illegal that they should contact you or if planning permission is needed.Do it through a lawyer for proof.

You might need some sort of permission , even if you own the land.

Get a good one , not some mickey mouse one like posted earlier.

I had a similar problem , neighbour used to boswell the street for families bangers 4 bangers and a mbike taking up a whole block worth of bays....and had a garage along the road never used.

They seen no wrong on that , lots of ignorant b's or "bullies" as mentioned earlier that would resort to the word anal if challenged.

I blame the government making this problem , the more houses they put on an acre the less parkign there is.