We had this at our old flat with designated residents parking.

I always used to glue a ready made A4 note right in front of the drivers line of sight. We watched many a hilarious domestic from our window when the driver and their partners returned!!

Just leave a polite note.

“You are parked in my private space.
I’ve had to park you in, but I’ll move my car immediately to let you out, so no problem”

Leave your number on the note with the last 2 numbers transposed.

Watch the fun for a half hour or so, and then come out and apologise for your error.

@epicyclo

We did something similar at old house in Killin with tourists outside the house or in yard. It was great until one day the French tourist returned – and used a Laguna bumper as a bumper… 😯

So, there are 6 spaces, to be shared between 3 houses – what happens when the combined car ownership of those households exceeds 6?

Park on the road at the front. Currently, next door have one car, we have one car and farthest away have 2 cars.[/quote]

If there’s room round the front, why would they go round the back to park in your space?

Surely it would be more entertaining to provide a genuine phone number that wasn’t yours – if we still had phone boxes you could find a supply of such numbers on cards in them…

Edinburgh Napier Uni have a great system. Their notes are large stickers that they place on the driver’s window. They’re not easily removable, which the stickers state along with the advice to drive with the window down until the sticker can be removed. They do come off, but you can’t just peel them off there and then.

thats vandalism.

unless the OP actually owns the land there is nothing he can do.

Just put a cone in your space with a sign popped in the top saying “parking for Number X only”. No breach of lease, no silly passive-aggressive notes, no childish tricks, no vandalism.

That would deter most. Anyone who’s going to go to the bother of moving your cone and parking there anyway will be clearly under the impression that the space is for general parking. You’ll have to have a word with them and show them your lease.

thats vandalism.

bollocks it is. Give it whirl if you want, park on double yellows in a town centre wait for the council to stick a penalty notice to your windscreen and try to get them done for vandalism. Arguing vandalism for sticking something that can be peeled off onto a windscreen is going to be tricky.

My first thought is to put up some signs, however review of the deeds shows that this is prohibited

Who’s going to enforce it?

Put up a sign. Most people would happily comply if they knew there was a problem.

Had similar in our last place, new build developments are horrendous, never again!

I considered one of these but battled on with the neighbours about that and their noise until they moved, we moved shortly after.

Edinburgh Napier Uni have a great system. Their notes are large stickers that they place on the driver’s window. They’re not easily removable, which the stickers state along with the advice to drive with the window down until the sticker can be removed. They do come off, but you can’t just peel them off there and then.

Yup, Stirling Uni did exactly the same thing for those who didn’t have parking permits. A yellow sticker as a warning each time, then if caught for a fourth time a bigger red sticker stating that you’re banned from campus. All stickers left that lovely ripped paper / gluey residue all over your window which was almost impossible to remove.

nealglover – Member

TOP TIP: buy a house with no drive then they wont be able to tell when you are in or out.

Nah, spare car for sure. That’s got to be the way forward.

As an added bonus, I can park the spare outside someone else’s house, possibly when they need to go to the tip or wash the car
Chapeau! 😆

I’d just put posts in – as you’re responsible for maintaining the paved area then when/if you move just replace the blocks with a hole in assuming the “new” owners don’t want them to stay.
Of course – in england/wales you are allowed to clamp a vehicle thats on your own property.
Then pop out for a carvery…

Not quite the same, but SWMBO get’s really wound up by people parking in front of our house, it’s a street of detached houses with driveways so parking isn’t an issue, it’s just a principle thing. Only really irritated me when we had plasterers/electricians in and a driveway full of cars/vans.

That and matchday parking, it must be 40+min walk, how tight are these people not to pay £5 to park a car full of people next to the stadium, or use the park and ride?

I might just leave notes like this for my own amusement in future.

“Thanks for yesterday hunny. Call me. Lola xxx”

i tried to warn someone last time/the only time someone has parked outside my house – we are the corner house – anything beyond my drive your parked in the junction.

Got told he paid his tax and was entitled to park there and toddled off to walk his dog “int country”

so when the local farmer took his wing mirror off and left a nice line of green paint down his white golf trying to get up to the farm i was inside getting coffee and saw nothing.

all he had to do was park on the other side of my drive but he didnt give me the chance to tell him.

Oh dear, how unfortunate! 😆

Update:

Two notes put on cars this week informing them that the area is not communal and referencing the deeds. One did not return, the other was still there this morning but sort of expected this as they only appeared last night. (Also both cars have been BMWs, read into that what you will)

I’ve asked the solicitor who did our conveyancing to confirm the ownership of the area. In the meantime they’ve advised me to raise it with the factor (the company in charge of the development up keep to which everyone pays a fee). While it’s stated that our bit is our responsibility (up keep etc.) the factor will be in charge of the communal parking areas. If there’s a parking issue in the communal areas causing overspill then they need to sort it.

However, I believe the issue is caused by the 3 blocks of affordable housing down the road having too few parking spaces. This ultimately is the local council’s fault by allowing too few parking spaces at the planning application approval stage.

I might get some cones, going to see how it goes….

I might get some cones

It’s escalated to Defcon 1.

Next step the full nuclear – “looking at them in a stern way when you catch them at it”

However, I believe the issue is caused by the 3 blocks of affordable housing down the road having too few parking spaces. This ultimately is the local council’s fault by allowing too few parking spaces at the planning application approval stage.

Your local council has set provisions set around – 2 spaces per house (up to 4 bedrooms) 1 visitor space per 5 houses, flats 0 spaces. Its all about using public transport and being green don’t you know!

If its your management company, good luck in getting anything out of them they simply dont care IME

We had this at our old flat with designated residents parking.

I always used to glue a ready made A4 note right in front of the drivers line of sight. We watched many a hilarious domestic from our window when the driver and their partners returned!!

Had the same in my residents parking. An absolute cow used to park her car in my space despite me confronting her several times about it. In the end I just let her tyres down every single time she did it. She got the message eventually but it took a while.

Not quite the same, but SWMBO get’s really wound up by people parking in front of our house, it’s a street of detached houses with driveways so parking isn’t an issue, it’s just a principle thing.

So hang on, are these people parking on your driveway?

Bb – congrats on your perseverance

I’d get a couple of cones in the first instance. If nothing else, it’ll mean that people park in your neighbours’ spaces rather than yours. (-:

If that doesn’t work, easiest / cheapest solution might be just to string a chain / steel cable across the lot. Permanent fixture at one side, combination lock at the other.

Not quite the same, but SWMBO get’s really wound up by people parking in front of our house, it’s a street of detached houses with driveways so parking isn’t an issue, it’s just a principle thing. Only really irritated me when we had plasterers/electricians in and a driveway full of cars/vans.

As long as they’re not blocking your driveway, it’s not remotely the same thing. You don’t own the public road outside your house. Your OH can get as wound up as she likes, they’ve every right to park there.

If its your management company, good luck in getting anything out of them they simply dont care IME

If I can pin it on them then I will, hence enquiries with the solicitor. I’m quite good at getting companies to do things via sternly worded letters 🙂

If you can pass it on to the factors, they might decide to subcontract parking management to a specialist parking management company. I’m led to believe these are the most ethical and easy to deal with companies in the world and that the factor will suck up all the costs themselves and not allow the company to pass petty and exorbitant charges to the residents.

Factors will do nothing and when pushed will come back with a massively expensive solution. Took years to get ours to put up signs which were only visible if you knew where to look. There next option was electronic gates and fobs.

electronic gates and fobs

Sounds good 😀

As long as they’re not blocking your driveway, it’s not remotely the same thing. You don’t own the public road outside your house. Your OH can get as wound up as she likes, they’ve every right to park there.

Indeed, her point*, is they** do it to avoid parking in front of their own house***.

*valid, if not with any legal basis
**we know which house it is
***because they have too many cars for their driveway

I couldn’t care less, unless it happens in the half hour I find the motivation to get the chainsaw out and cut down the dead tree that overhangs that bit of road.

Update:

The number of cars using the spaces has dropped off, in fact don’t think there were any this week. I’ve been putting an informative but firm note on those that have parked there.

Yesterday some signs appeared stating that the parking was for the three houses. We think this was done by the developer, who’s still building houses on the site. We informed them of the issue a while ago and I think our neighbours must have too. I’m pretty sure it’s the developer as the street name is spelt slightly wrong on the sign and it looks like other signs around the site.

So, any cars parking there now will get much terser notes, possibly insulting their eyesight.

I’ve cancelled the order of cones, back to DEFCON 2.