Parking problems

[Wossi]

Moved into my new house a few weeks back and the only place to park is in the communal car park at the back of my house that is for the residents of the houses and flats there.

My house is 338 and the red splodge is our allocated parking in front of our garage. As we have 2 cars this can be tricky as the parking spaces next to it are in use. The problem comes when one of the people in the flat parks his POS rusty car where the pink splodge is, meaning parking is an annoyance as I have to park at a funny angle with the chance of blocking someone else in.

This has been going on since I moved in, spoke to the site manager about it (David Wilson are still building homes here) and he said if it continues to be a problem let him know.

Got home after work and lo and behold his car is not there so I parked where the pink splodge is meaning my sister can get her car out if she needs to without playing musical cars. While outside having a smoke he pulled up and parked lengthways along the fence at the back moaning to his girlfriend that it was his space and I shouldn't be parking there, his girlfriend said something I couldn't quite hear and he told her not to bother.

So GD, how would you go about sorting this out civilly? Bearing in mind that the bloke looks like he would rather kick your head in than talk to you and you have no idea which flat is his? I can't wait for him to leave in the morning or come back, as he leaves at 6.30am and is back by 3.30pm.

Oh and I assume I am in the right here as there are no reserved parking spots there as it's too close to the entrance. What do you think?


Sorry for the long post.

 

[Wossi]

My sister has already spoken to him once about parking and the problems it causes so he parked slightly more away so you could park 2 cars straight, one behind the other, now he's gone back to basically dumping his car. Today was the first time it was moved in a week.

I would speak to him, but I have no idea what flat he lives in.

 

[Wossi]

Not a lot anyone can suggest if you don't feel he's approachable - means you'll have to tell your site manager and hope he sorts it out.

Either that or damage the car every time he parks there, and hope the message gets across.

Spoken to the site manager a couple of times, lately either the site manager has been on holiday, or the car owner has.

Um..... why not ask them what you should do?

Bloody hellfire!

I have two cars and not enough space so i politely asked my neighbours if there was anything we could do. One said"i dont have a car, knock yerself out", and i got their space for nothing.

If only i could have consulted the internet first!!!

Every reserved parking spot is in use, hence the problem. There's not enough space for every car round here, which is crazy.

park in the pink spot all the time, even leaving your bay empy. Its the only way he will start looking for a space elsewhere. if he questions you tell him its not a space but as its infront your house its fine for YOU not him to park there.

Did that this evening and will be trying to do that as much as I can, although it seems to be a race as to who can get there first.

I just find it crazy that he thinks that is *his* spot and just because we have a garage and 1 allocated spot we shouldn't park there, because of course, that won't make it difficult to get the cars in and out.

 

[Wossi]

Now its just a battle of commitment. Stick with it. Also maybe speak to the site manager about getting no parking lines outside your house at that section.

Or if he can stick a few bollards there or the fold down bollards with locks that pop up

I was tempted to install the fold down bollards myself, but wasn't sure if I would be allowed. Don't think I can do much with regards to the no parking lines or bollards anyway as I think the car park will be getting a final layer of tarmac at some point.

 

[Wossi]

There is, if he parks more over to the right hand side of the slodge. It wouldn't be so bad then.

 

[Wossi]

We have a garage as well as a reserved parking spot. The problem with parking in the garage and our space is getting in and out, the car park is really badly laid out hence we parked one car where the red is and one where the pink is.

 

[Wossi]

So you have a garage that you don't use so instead use your allocated space and the area on the corner which isn't a designated parking bay.

It would seem like you are both in the wrong or just put up with it as you can't complain about the guy then park there yourself seeing as its not a parking bay.

My advice would be to park in the garage and your parking bay and put up with having to swap cars about, afterall you did move into the place knowing you only had one garage and one parking bay.

So we should be put out because of someone else?

And now it appears that they've decided to be really petty and parked another car on the angle of the fence but more over to where I park. Jesus, I really do despair at the maturity of some people

 

[Wossi]

To be clear, is the red splodge your allocated parking space? Are they definitely allocated to the houses?

The red splodge is allocated to our house, the one next to it is for the flat above the garages and the next one is for the house next to me.

OK, so if there was a way that he could park that wouldn't inconvenience me, I would just try and let him know in a polite manner. If it was me I would either approach him (depending what I thought of him) or leave a note on his car asking him if he could park in that way.

Rgds

If I spot him I'll have a chat to him about this, no point in things escalating over parking. I'll just ask him when he parks there if he can keep his car more to the right so we can get ours in easily.