To want my neighbour to stop parking in my spot

[KangarooAtTheZoo]

I have an allocated parking spot in a cul de sac. It's on the deeds to the house and we have the freehold so we own the parking spot. We don't own a car but we use the spot for visitors alot. A neighbour has started parking in our spot every day even though they have 2 spots and there are communal spots (his household have at least 3 cars I think). It started in the lockdown as we had no guests. I have left notes on the car and asked them not to park in our spot because our guests can't use it and it's blocking access for me to get my pram out when there is a car parked there (there is narrow paths and bushes either side). When I have confronted him he says just ask him to move his car when you have guests. But the last two times we had guests he didn't answer the door so my guests couldn't park there. And why should I be inconvienced by him parking on our property.
What options are left now? I assume police and council can't do anything? There is a property management company that manages the communal area because some people own half the property and pay half rent to this company but I assume because we own the freehold they can't do anything? Can I put a parking bollard on my spot? I'm also worried if it goes on for to long they can claim rights to the parking spot. Thanks for any advice

How do you normally get the pram out when your own car is parked in your own spot? A car is a car, whether yours or his it would be difficult to get a pram out. If people are saying you 'might' scratch his car getting your pram out, would that not be true if your own car was parked there?

@LoisLane66 why all of the posts saying the same? She doesn't have a bloody car.

I’d let a tyre down each time he did it

@SquirtleSquad
Apologies. Yes, I did now that but forgot when I was typing.
No need for the 'bloody' language though...was there, or are you in an irritable mood today?

*know not now.

Wouldn’t advocate blocking in, could get very unpleasant.

Solicitors letter with copy of the relevant deed and a rising bollard?

Solicitor's letter and cost of a rising bollard (if permitted)...would that be an effective and affordable answer? It's not very neighbourly. There must be a better solution.

Neither is parking on someone else’s property. Personal involvement in disputes rarely helps, keep it formal.

Ignore the idiots telling you to clamp OP, they don’t know their arse from their elbow. Do NOT do this.

'Bloody language' you posted three times saying the same thing and twice after someone had already told you they don't have a car. I could have said cunting car.. not in an irritable mood, but I do find it bloody irritating when people don't bother reading the OP properly or the thread and then post annoying comments.

If you do own the space, the obvious answers are

1. A solicitors letter and cones.
2. A let down lockable bollard.

I suggest the latter.

I think it's quite funny that blocking in could get unpleasant, but sending a solicitor's letter wouldn't, and that OP said installing a bollard might be quite expensive at £180, yet people are suggesting she buys a car to sit there.

@KangarooAtTheZoo

The bins are still there. So either one of the family members are away for a few days or they have got the message or they have read this thread (would be quite obvious from the diagram). Hmm should I be worried about that? I'll monitor for a week and update if they move the bins and park in the spot. I'm going to read the house deeds in detail at the weekend, email the council if I need permission for a bollard and email the management company as well about permission for a bollard.

Don’t email for permission. Some jobsworth will just say no. Put a bollard in and deal with any pushback later.

As the saying goes, “It is better to ask for forgiveness than permission”.

If you do decide to put up a sign threatening financial penalties, be careful how you word it. Whatever you do, don't put "Fine for parking here" as that will only legitimise his CFery in his own mind

Have you ever been blocked in and could not move your car, especially when you were in a hurry? Not good.
If you want to effectively discourage your annoying neighbour from parking his car in your space, watch out for the next time he parks there and arrange with a close friend or relative of yours to block his car in for a week (even if you have to pay them to do it). If after that he continues to park in your space, rent a wheel lock, clamp his tyres and go away for the weekend. Before then, put a sign in front of the space stating clearly that any car parked there without permission will be clamped. Take a picture of the sign and save it on your phone with the date and time.

Nice to think about, but clamping or blocking in vehicles on private land has been illegal since 2012, even if the vehicle has no right to be there. We have rogue clamping companies, who would previously clamp vehicles on flimsy grounds and extort excessive fees, to thank for that law.

I think the problems set in when public businesses were (understandably) angry at non-customers using their customer car parks, but maybe took a too heavy-handed approach to stopping it.

It is outrageous, though, that anybody can park on your own private drive with no consequences and then you can be prosecuted if you block them in - even if just using the bottom half of your own long drive for your own car as normal - for denying them access to the public highway.

A bit like the people I once read about who were successfully sued for 'false imprisonment' by a burglar who had broken in and then not been able to get out again - I think he might have got himself locked inside a garage with a self-locking door and obviously didn't have a key.

"A bit like the people I once read about who were successfully sued for 'false imprisonment' by a burglar who had broken in and then not been able to get out again - I think he might have got himself locked inside a garage with a self-locking door and obviously didn't have a key."

Well that's just insane!! A clear case of misapplication of the law there, ffs!

Update - bins had not been moved until last night when there was a knock at the door. My husband answered and think it was neighbours father asking if he could park in our spot for the evening. My husband said yes . The car is still there! So clearly evening means as long as they like to them. And it looks like the neighbours car so doubt it's even a relative of the neighbours car. My husband said the guy also seemed put out by asking. Yes we are clearly the cheeky ones by putting a sign up not to park in our spot. So clearly they are the kind of cheeky people who take a mile when you give an inch. I want to be a friendly neighbour but they are obviously entitled CF's. Going to get a bollard this week and install it.

I'd go round and tell them to move it now as they've overstepped the boundary ... again!

Good luck with then bollard 😉 hopefully they'll get the message!

Silly DH

LTB

Why on earth did your husband say yes?! 🤦🏻‍♀️

I agree LTB 😂

You have a spineless DH.