Car park under our windows

PasturesNew

tln111 wrote: »

whether the court may allow me to erect some signs next to our building,
even though it would be in the neighbour's part of the car park.

No. Never. You'd have to negotiate that with the land owner and pay for it if they agreed. It is somebody else's land.

tln111 wrote: »

The signs would not hurt anybody but should improve our situation to some extent. The next door landlord actually told me he was going to erect signage about clamping all unauthorized vehicles, he just never bothered to actually do it, so who will lose if I do it for him?

If he's fine about it, as he seems to be, then go ahead and do it. But be mindful that you need to think about ongoing maintenance, repairs/replacement and, perhaps, public liabiity. e.g. if a drunk person decides to climb/swing on it and falls ... they might just sue. Wrong, but that's the sort of numpty that the world seems to be breeding these days.

tln111

So would it be legal if I write to him saying that if I do not receive any written objections from him within the next two weeks I will install professionally made clamping signs in his car park next to our building? Can he take me to court for that?

PasturesNew

tln111 wrote: »

So would it be legal if I write to him saying that if I do not receive any written objections from him within the next two weeks I will install professionally made clamping signs in his car park next to our building? Can he take me to court for that?

Most certainly not!
You have to approach him properly and ASK him. And not throw a hissy fit if he says "no".

It's his land, to do with as he sees fit.

It would be purely as a favour to you that he agrees to anything.

If it were me I'd not take you to court for doing it, I'd be out there burning the sod down and chucking it over your fence!

tln111

I asked him few times before. He responded twice by saying he was going to install the signs, which he never did, and completetely ignored my last communication after that.

I find it very hard to believe I have no rights at all in this matter. It is a neighbours dispute. The activities on his land are causing us distress. I can't move at present. The signs would not hurt anyone. I don't get it why I can't take it to court.

RabbitMad

I believe there are private firms that will "manage" the car park for you and pay you a bounty of £20 per car wrongly parked there. With that kind of income you might find the other people that own the car park are much more interested in getting this issue sorted.

Also if you've spoken to the guy and he said he'd put up signs, I'm sure when you speak to him saying you'll do it for him at your cost he'll be happy with that so you just need to speak to him now

tln111

As I see it it is the same as it would have been as if, when I lived in a semi-detached, my next door neighbour would have had his house and garden open for all drug addicts, drunks and criminals to use as and when they wished because he would not have lived there himself and would not have cared and we would have had to live with all the consequences as a result. So, is it the case that I could not have done anything about it as well?

I did mention that I have a daughter and she gets woken up at night by drug addicts who use this car park to consume their drugs whilst sitting inside their cars with loud music on and they start waiving at her when she looks out of her window.

chickmug

nollag2006 wrote: »

The risk there is that the boys in blue could do you for criminal damage, irrespective of your height and weight. Breadcrumbs are a much better idea

Yes I agree but at the time he was in no mood to listen to the sensible advice. It was a reserved space outside his offices and so the guilty party would never have been entirely sure who placed the sticker. When they came into his offices and asked they said no not them.

tln111

I put stickers on some of the cars parked here one night some time ago (the glue wasn't so bad, it was just duct tape). It turned out one of those cars belonged to someone from the next door office and he was paying rent for a parking space here. He made a terrible fuss and I stopped using this method since then.

I remember also that someone else who was parked here illegally rubbed his take-away food all over our entrance door and my neighbour's car to punish us for the sticker.

tln111

Also if you've spoken to the guy and he said he'd put up signs, I'm sure when you speak to him saying you'll do it for him at your cost he'll be happy with that so you just need to speak to him now[/quote]

Thanks for your advice RabbitMad.

It's just I feel that he does not see me as a human being at all, it is very difficult to force yourself to try speaking to someone in such circumstances (AGAIN!). It could be that, as he opposed for this block of flats to be built here in the first place and lost his case when he took the matter to court, he is now taking it out on me. In other words, it could be that his sole purpose is simply to be as awkward as possible, no matter who the actual victim of his awkwardness is.

wymondham

get hold of scrap car and park it there with the tyres let down and windscreen smashed - that usually stops other parking there!!

or another thing that works is to write 'no parking' across the bonnet of this scrap car in spray paint, this makes people with shiny cars nervous!