Potential parking dispute on private road

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I say potential as I've only just had a note on my car this morning.

We have a flat facing a private road. There's parking out the front and parking round the back. Now according to the land registry documents we have an allocated parking space around the back, it's marked on the documents but not actually marked on the ground itself (i.e. it's all grass and gravel).

Our neighbour has two cars, and while I don't have the documents to hand I suspect that technically one of them is parked in our spot. Thing is though that's never been an issue and I've always just parked next to her car (for over two years), knowing that I generally own a spot round the back. Anyway it's not her I have the issue with, as I think someone who has moved in recently has taken to parking where I've been when I'm not there. I guess we finally clashed schedules last night and he/she has left a note on my car for me to find this morning.

I know I'm going to have to dig out the documents and work out exactly where I should be parking, but I'm curious how there being no marked bays would affect things?

The note that was left on my car just said "Please don't park here". I think it's a bit odd without stating a reason, but I don't want to be confrontational so I just wrote under it that I live in these flats and have allocated parking around the back, and left my number asking them to call me to discuss it.

All in all I'd like only good to come out of this as it would be nice to finally sort out where everyone should be parking, it's only going to be a matter of a few meters difference anyway.

So what do you reckon?
 
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Well the title documents you have will be 1:1250 scale. Get a scale ruler and work out the distances - remember they are only general but you should be able to work out the location using fixed points such as the building.

Then it sounds like you need to talk to the neighbour with 2 cars and ask her to move so you can use your actual space...if it's only 1 allocated space per flat then they can't complain (legally at least).
 
Acknowledge and mentally prepare for the possibility that this person is an unthinking, unreasonable idiot. That should help lessen the blow if he/she is, or get you in a good mood if they're not...
 
Yeah I mean it's fair enough if they know that legally they should be parking there, it's just such a vague note and without contact information the whole thing leaves me feeling a bit irritated. If they had a phone number or their flat number on there I'd of had a friendly chat and let them know that I'd look into it properly.
 
Typically only 1 parking space is allocated (unless otherwise stated on the registry documentation), if they have 2 cars then they are no doubt parking on someone else's (e.g. your) space.
 
No matter whose space it is, what right do they have to put notes telling you not to park there?

I'd put one on their car with a nice 48pt Arial and something along the lines of "Please **** off."

Cheeky idiots.
 
eh?

If they've bought it then they have every right to put a note on it. However, they've not said why you shouldn't park there...
 
Tute said:
No matter whose space it is, what right do they have to put notes telling you not to park there?

I'd put one on their car with a nice 48pt Arial and something along the lines of "Please **** off."

Cheeky idiots.
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Well this is sort of it, I'm wound up about it now because I haven't been able to chat to them about it, and by all means I'm happy to resolve it. It just seems a bit cheeky to stick a note on my car without giving me a way of contacting them.

If the space is free I'll park back there tonight. I left their note with my response under a stone in front of the parking space. All it is is asking them to give me a ring. If they're there when I get back tonight I'll leave a note under their wiper.
 
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yes ID knock on their door and ask them, if its for the reason that that is their parking space then fair enough, you then need to talk to the lady with 2 cars. Otherwise tell them to **** off
 
OK long update. The bloke gave me a call, basically he lives in the basement flat opposite where I park and he wants to put his bike there so that he can see it from his window. Now that's fair enough I reckon but if the spot is legally mine then stuff what he thinks. Anyway I was very polite about it so I said I'd check over my documents and get back to him.

Now this is where the annoying/interesting/stressful bit comes in. This will take some explaining so please bare with me!

Basically this building contains flats 1-6, however ages ago it used to be 1-9. This was made up of numbers 1,2, and 9 basement flats (i.e. ones that have their own access and don't use the communal entrance) and 3,4,5,6,7,8 internal flats (i.e. the ones that use the communal entrance). With this in mind it's no surprise that the land registry documents refer to flats 1-9.

So here's a little table that simply surmises the above, with the addition of available access for parking (i.e. who can get access to the back from their flat):

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So looking at that we used to be flat 8.

Now here's a quick pic that simply shows what the land registry document is showing:


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The numbers are the parking spots by the way!

So to me it looks pretty cut and dry that we own the number 8 spot (that's actually out the front of the building by the way!).

I've spoken to the chap who owns the flat opposite me (he's in the know about this stuff) and he's pretty much confirmed what I said about the flat numbers. He also told me that it was agreed with the residents some time ago that the top four flats would have the parking at the front on account of having no rear access. Again this is pretty simple, but as you can see from the table, flat 3 (now) has no rear access and so parks out the front.

The thing that I've just worked out is that I *think* whoever has been parking in spot 8 doesn't actually live here and is from one of the other buildings!

Anyone got any thoughts on that?
 
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tl;dr ;)

I think somewhere along the line someone is going to be disappointed/annoyed so call a residents meeting and make sure everyone is there.
 
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Simple solution, find out who has been parking in your allocated space and ask them not to, or reuse the note that was left on your screen.
 
LizardKing said:
very helpful! postcount +1 though hey.
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Not really, more of a silly private joke - I work with z0mbi3 and we've already been discussing the issue on MSN this evening. I had also already edited my post before you posted though. :)

EDIT: doh you edited as well. ;)
 
challengedavid said:
it seems like a right mess, i think all the flats will have to come to a new arrangement and get it drawn up in writing and stick to it
or you could just park in your space 8 and see what happens
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My other half is out at the moment but I've sintructed her to park in the number 8 spot when she gets back. It's empty at the moment.
 
Why not go around and talk to the chap about it? From what you've said (bar the note) he seems to be at least semi-reasonable.
 
Tute said:
Why not go around and talk to the chap about it? From what you've said (bar the note) he seems to be at least semi-reasonable.
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It's not just one person he needs to speak to though, the whole block needs to make an agreement on things.
 
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