Neighbour issuing parking tickets!

Sliver said:
Sounds like a douche. I sold my car last year when I became too ill to work. Getting better now and hope to get back into work soon. However, during my time without a car, I've noticed both my neighbours using my private parking bay. I don't have a problem with this, even though it would have been nice if they asked first. Anyway, OP, best thing to do is confront him and tell him what you have told us. At least that way you'll be getting this off your chest.
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Your neighbours are making you beta by parking in your private space. Set boundaries and show them how Alpha you are.
 
Malevolence said:
Mate of mine has a pretty long driveway, and idiots park on that all the time. His solution is simple, if someone parks on his driveway he goes out and locks the huge gate at the end, effectively locking the car in and the owners out. More than a few times the police have been called by irate drivers who have returned to find their car behind a large wall and some hefty locked wooden gates. :D
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What do the police say about it?
 
Malt_Vinegar said:
The road ownership thing is odd. Basically the borders of our property appear to hit the centre line of the road from our boundary lines.

So each house seems to "own" a small rectangular patch of pavement and road.

We are not responsible for the upkeep of the road though, so it seems to be a very unusual situation. The houses are all post war, so it's not a new estate, and it's ex military ground/housing.

Our house was purchased from the army directly by the previous owners.

So it may be a hangover from when the road was MOD owned?
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So the neghbor might actually be correct. It is possibly in your interest if he is really.

LeeUK said:
Might be completely legal to park, but having your street flooded with dumped cars from city commuters on a daily basis isn't fun blocking your access etc.
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Personally, I would impose "Resident Parking Only" anywhere within 500M of a train station or school for the hours 08:00-10:00 and 14:00-16:00 and have an army of ticket issuers to impose it :p :p :D
 
Why bother printing some flimsy tickets when you can go remove the wheels and smash em into the car, rent a trailer, shift the car on it and drive all the way over to Dover, then flytip that **** into the channel.

/entirely serious.
 
NewGamer11 said:
What do the police say about it?
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Nothing. What can they say, him locking his own gates isn't breaking any laws and there is no legal reason why he has to allow trespassers back onto his property to reclaim any property they've left there from a previous trespass. The moment they decided to trespass on his private land and dump their car it became a civil matter, not criminal. He has asked a few owners to cough up £50 to get access to his land so they can get their car though - a few have paid.
 
Malevolence said:
Nothing. What can they say, him locking his own gates isn't breaking any laws and there is no legal reason why he has to allow trespassers back onto his property to reclaim any property they've left there from a previous trespass. The moment they decided to trespass on his private land and dump their car it became a civil matter, not criminal. He has asked a few owners to cough up £50 to get access to his land so they can get their car though - a few have paid.
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Orionaut said:
I think it is a bit like the kids football scenario.

You cannot damage trespassing goods, nor can you use them.

But you do not have to return them either....!

It isn't really a Police matter.
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That's what I thought but I wondered if they might 'suggest' just letting them have their car back. People are right wazzocks about parking. I once had someone park across my drive, was empty but expecting my gf back, so I asked them to move literally a couple of meters to allow access to the drive. They looked at me like I had three heads.

I also hate when people say, 'but I was only a minute' or 'I'll just be a minute' like it makes any difference!
 
NewGamer11 said:
I also hate when people say, 'but I was only a minute' or 'I'll just be a minute' like it makes any difference!
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My neighbour had somebody else's visitor park in her space (No, it really was her space, Her land as defined on the land registry etc. It is an old property divided into flats, the way it has been done is complex and "New Arrivals" do not immediately appreciate that the parking area includes totally private land that nobody else has any entitlement to access let alone park on)

She came home late at night and blocked the offender in leaving a note under the windscreen.

"Gone to Spain, Back in three weeks!"

She let them out the following morning...:D
 
Where I (used) to live there are usually *tons* of spaces. If someone had parked in my space I'd usually just use another.

Once I got back there and - very unusually - there were none in my block...And somebody had parked in my space (an Espace or similar). I got out and started to ask if he wouldn't mind moving - and immediately got told to **** off, he's on the phone :/

Bonkers really. Just made me park my hire car about 8mm from his bumper, go in, get my stuff, and head out to the pub - which was my original plan. Espace was still there in the morning.

Compare that with where I live now, the underground car park seems to have 5 spaces for every one car (zone 2 central London, so not surprising), and there is literally no toss given about which space people park in. It seems to be accepted that people with 4x4s get the bigger spaces - regardless of allocation to property - and others just park where's convenient.

It just kinda works.
 
Malt_Vinegar said:
The houses here seem to have boundaries that go out over the pavement to the middle of the road at the front. Mine is also the same.
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So you're responsible for the upkeep of the road as a collection of houses on your street? No?

Therefore your "apparent" boundary is irrelevant and he has no jurisdiction or enforcement of fines or otherwise.

Similar to where I park, one of the residents insists on putting a cone outside their house. I just move it.
 
Django x2 said:
So you're responsible for the upkeep of the road as a collection of houses on your street? No?

Therefore your "apparent" boundary is irrelevant and he has no jurisdiction or enforcement of fines or otherwise.

Similar to where I park, one of the residents insists on putting a cone outside their house. I just move it.
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I know, hence me making the point that it's clearly a hangover of some sort from before the land was taken over from the MOD.
It has no real meaning. However, my neighbour thinks otherwise! He clearly has a bit of paper telling him it's his, so he is trying to enforce it :)
 
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Malt_Vinegar said:
I know, hence me making the point that it's clearly a hangover of some sort from before the land was taken over from the MOD.
It has no real meaning. Clearly my neighbour thinks otherwise! He clearly has a but of paper telling him it's his, so he is trying to enforce it :)
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But, is it working? Have you ever seen a car park there again after its had a 'parking ticket'? ;)
 
My house is in an unadopted private road of five houses. I have a driveway outside my house and also an area for up to three cars just across the road opposite. Cars often mistake this for communal parking and I see people parking there rather than drive further down to the neighbour they are visiting. I just politely go out there and ask them "Excuse me can I help you?". Their look of confusion is quite entertaining.

When it snows in winter the other four houses often ask to park in that area and on my main driveway as they can't get up a short but steep hill in the ice. A new neighbour moved in this year and a few weeks ago was quite rude to my wife over something. It's going to be wonderful watching his family struggle to drive up that hill next time it snows because he's sure as hell not going to be allowed to park outside mine :D

Please snow this year!
 
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