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Parking dispute

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Thenameofthegame22 · 14/07/2023 23:56

Posting for friend (genuinely)
End of terrace house. Thin road with dead end. Two parking spaces in front, adjacent to house. House was being used as holiday home so next door neighbour asked to put up a post that requires a lock to put up and put down. friend agreed (v foolish i know). He wanted it to prevent anyone parking there so he could put it down and use space to to swing his massive car out and then put it back up again.
She's now moving to said house and wants both parking spaces so wants post removed. It is on his land and she does not have a key to it. She had asked him and he has been an absolute bully about it, is not budging at all and has been really nasty and intimidating towards her.
Should she take him to court? What can she do? Suggestions gratefully received.

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Colinorpercy · 15/07/2023 00:00

Who do the parking spaces belong to? Or are they for anyone’s use?

PS you forgot the diagram 😜

pinguins · 15/07/2023 00:01

Yes this is very confusing without a diagram. Do you mean she has to cross his land to get to hers? I can't visualise this at all.

pinguins · 15/07/2023 00:03

Also whatever the situation, the friend shouldn't beat herself up about agreeing to the post, it sounds like he's the sort of person who would have done it anyway.

SweetAsIcedChocolate · 15/07/2023 00:03

I don’t understand the scenario at all I’m afraid.
Whos land is the post on?

Fizzadora · 15/07/2023 00:08

So many questions.
Does your friends house have two parking spaces?
Are they in front of the house or are they adjacent (and adjacent to what)?
Why did neighbour need her permission for the post if it is on his land?
How is the post preventing her from using her parking spaces?

If the neighbour is preventing legal access and is being obstructive and belligerent then she needs to have a solicitor send a letter telling him to remove the obstruction and if he doesn't then involve the police.

Yarnorama · 15/07/2023 00:09

A diagram would be helpful...

TheModHatter · 15/07/2023 00:23

Is the parking on the road or on his land?

Can’t get a grasp of this at all. Please re-explain, and add diagram.

Original poster
Thenameofthegame22 · 15/07/2023 01:08

Apologies, its confusing enough with a diagram. Thanks everyone

Parking dispute
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Thenameofthegame22 · 15/07/2023 01:09

The arrow out of his garage is to show how he wants to use her 1st parking space to reverse his car into

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BoBoHill · 15/07/2023 01:17

How would he get out if she was parked there?

TheModHatter · 15/07/2023 01:21

Well, I can’t begin to see how he is allowed to put up a post that blocks her access to her parking spaces!

Is the post on his land? It looks as if it is in the road. Who owns the road? The council?

She was really daft to agree to this post in the first place.

If the road belongs to the council I think she should start by reporting his post to them.

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Thenameofthegame22 · 15/07/2023 01:23

By driving to his left when he exits his garage. It would be hard because he's got such a massive vehicle and he'd likely have to navigate carefully because the road is narrow with a steep drop on the other side. If you had a normal sized car it wouldn't be an issue at all.

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Thenameofthegame22 · 15/07/2023 01:25

TheModHatter · 15/07/2023 01:21

Well, I can’t begin to see how he is allowed to put up a post that blocks her access to her parking spaces!

Is the post on his land? It looks as if it is in the road. Who owns the road? The council?

She was really daft to agree to this post in the first place.

If the road belongs to the council I think she should start by reporting his post to them.

It's on the road but she says that's his land which confuses me. Yeah she was so foolish to allow this, I never knew she'd actually agreed to it when I found out I was gobsmacked.
How do you find out of the road is owned by the council?

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Yarnorama · 15/07/2023 01:27

Oh wow, that is a shitty situation.

If it was me I'd park in front of his bollard. If he wants to play at restricting access then so be it.

Yarnorama · 15/07/2023 01:28

Her deeds will show if she owns the space she has marked as parking bays.

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Thenameofthegame22 · 15/07/2023 01:29

Yarnorama · 15/07/2023 01:28

Her deeds will show if she owns the space she has marked as parking bays.

Yes her deeds show she owns both the parking spaces in front of her house.

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Thenameofthegame22 · 15/07/2023 01:31

Yarnorama · 15/07/2023 01:27

Oh wow, that is a shitty situation.

If it was me I'd park in front of his bollard. If he wants to play at restricting access then so be it.

Really shitty.
Yeah she could park in front of the post which would block his garage and it would be a good FU but wouldn't really get her anywhere in the long term unfortunately. She is single too and petite and he is a big bullying man and she feels intimidated by him.

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kitchenhelprequired · 15/07/2023 01:34

Friend needs to look at deeds for both houses and see what rights of access there are for her to access her parking. If it's a council adopted road then I would think agreement or not that bollard is illegal. If it's unadopted then she should consult a solicitor to find out if her agreeing to the bollard in whatever way she did (written or verbally) is enough to override the right of access on the deeds. Hopefully not but she could potentially devalued her house by £££'s in agreeing to the bollard.

GrumpyPanda · 15/07/2023 01:57

For starters she could put up a second bollard blocking her own parking space 😀

Beeonmyeyelash · 15/07/2023 02:12

Post might be his and on his land but your friend has a right of access and he's blocking it, so no he can't do that.

He's effectively trying to steal her parking space as a reversing space for himself. It's not his reversing space so tough luck.

He needs to either reverse into the access road/his garage or reverse out onto the road, if there's nowhere to turn round. Your friend will be in the same situation re reversing. Unless there's space for a smaller car to turn, in which case anyone who doesn't want to reverse will have to purchase a smaller car so they can turn round.

GhoulWithADragonTattoo · 15/07/2023 02:35

Speak the Council about the post. It's probably illegal if on Council land.

lljkk · 15/07/2023 07:01

GrumpyPanda · 15/07/2023 01:57

For starters she could put up a second bollard blocking her own parking space 😀

I love this but it won't fix anything, alas

council & persistence & solicitors, I'm afraid.

DinnaeFashYersel · 15/07/2023 07:13

Speak to council. They most likely own the road and will deal with it.

If they don't own if they will let friend know and she can take it from there.

SunshineAndFizz · 15/07/2023 07:18

Initially speak to the council, it looks like it's on the public road. They should enforce its removal, probably threatening him with a fine. If that route doesn't work I'd speak to a solicitor.

Flossflower · 15/07/2023 07:42

Your friend could just put some heavy stuff in her parking place for the moment to stop the neighbour using it.

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