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

Put the bin back but smear poop on the handles. Nice surprise when he comes and tries to move the bins again 😂

I'd tell him first. "Look, if you don't stop using my space, I'm going to have to get a bollard" it might save you the expense of a bollard if he takes notice

Have you checked you are allowed to install a bollard? I thought a lot of these housing developments had rules about doing things like that.

I can imagine how annoying it is and I hope you can sort it out. I am absolutely sure he’s trying it on because he knows you are nice. If you had a very angry partner who went round and caused a scene I’m sure he wouldn’t be doing it.

If you are the freeholder, you can put what you like on the spot as long as there are no planning restrictions.
I wouldn't think a bollard would require planning permission but just to be sure I would ask the council!
The fold-down type with a padlock are relatively cheap.

@Beachbodylonggone

Where is Olaf + his high viz when you need him?...

Yes, I remember good old Olaf 🤣🤣🤣🤣

All the bollard talk

Don’t bluff. Look in to prices first and I’d you’re actually prepared to, then say.

Otherwise, don’t.

Does he have a drive?

Park on it. Hire a car for the day if required. Be as awkward as he is. Block him (and other neighbours) in, they will need to ask him to move too before you will move his car.

This stuff boils my piss. Offer to rent it to him (or sign up to one of those rent-a-drive websites).

Namechange2020onceagain erm looks like brick.

Just put 2 bins out. One is full of garden waste so quite heavy. With a sign on. It's raining heavily so they will get socked moving them. I'm dashing to the window every time I hear a car so I can film them moving it

Park on it. Hire a car for the day if required. Be as awkward as he is. Block him (and other neighbours) in, they will need to ask him to move too before you will move his car.

FGS the Op goes to the trouble and expense of hiring a car and does this?! For one poxy day. Will achieve nothing.

I think renting it out is a great idea OP. Particularly if you’re near somewhere with footfall - eg station. You could then block it out for the days that your guests come

@Beachbodylonggone

Get some fake parking notices... Stick one on with PVA glue and deny all knowledge...

i was legally parked on a public road and someone did this to me, and let down my tyres. Another resident helped me and i told them i'd taken photos and reported it to the police as criminal damage.

I wouldn’t bother filming, etc, I’d recommend something like this for 25 will stop him -

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B017M3EHG0?linkCode=osi&psc=1&th=1&tag=mumsnetforu03-21

Sounds like it just bolts in, so all you need is you or DH to drill 4 holes and use 4 rawl style plugs (screwfix if not supplied) to fit. A decent handyman failing that shouldn’t charge much for this tbh. Good luck!

DoubleDesserts has beaten me to it.

park post from Screwfix £35

concrete fixings £8

and a 10mm drill bit.

I wouldn't bother asking the management company for permission. Better to ask forgiveness rather than permission.

I would also advertise the space on a car space rental site so that it is used more often. Not only do you get to make money, it also makes you look less petty for installing the bollard, as you need it for that reason.

What an arse!! Just confront him if he tries to move your bins again, if he gives you the same CF bullshit about moving his car if you want your parking spot, say no, not happening, it's my property and my convenience, not yours

i was legally parked on a public road and someone did this to me [PVA glued notice on windscreen] and let down my tyres. Another resident helped me and I told them i'd taken photos and reported it to the police as criminal damage.

Me too, bloody parking vigilantes on public roads. The people on the (wide, well-used by cars and close to a station) road where this happened also like to block in cars parked outside their houses then scuttle into their houses and refuse to answer the door. Just what you want at the end of a long day at work.

Unfortunately for the woman who tried this stunt on me, I’d seen her block my car in as I walked up the road so it was easy to counter the “I’m not answering the door” tactics by telling her, loudly, that she had five minutes to move her car before I called the police, who would soon establish who the cars parked two inches in front of, and two inches behind, my car belonged to.

None of this is applicable to the OP, of course, who has every right to be annoyed at her neighbour. What is it with these chancers? I’d go with the letter: he’s probably thick as well as a CF, so a scary-sounding letter might put the wind up him.

I had this! Put up a big sign that states any illegal parking will be clamped. Then paint clearly along your space and paint big numbers of your house on it also. Buy a clamp !!! You know what comes next lol

Actually, these anchor bolts would be better

It would be a shame if you accidentally spilled some nails that happened to fall so they were standing up and they happened to go into his tyres. So clumsy OP 🙊

Renting the spot sounds like a good idea

I had a similar problem - see a solicitor and send a solicitors letter. We held off as we felt awkward about it and my FIL just kept saying that was what we had to do and he was right, wish we had done it straight away.

If a conversation hasn't worked I'd get a radio and a deckchair and have a little sit down in one of his spaces. Maybe invite some friends over for a party on his parking space.

@KangarooAtTheZoo

You would need epoxy resin (to set the bolts in the ground) and an SCS drill (heavy duty drill with large masonry bit) to drill the holes.

Can it be stollen? A penguin shaped stollen sounds right up my street. As you were.

Phone up and order a skip to go in his two parking bays, just do it in his name and tell the skip company you have sorted the license.

This is what burner phones have been invented for

People are so CF-ish! why on earth can't they just stop parking on spaces that aren't theirs???

There was a terrific pic in the paper the other day of a wrongly parked car that was wrapped up in acres of cellophane by the irate space owner, OP could try that?