Using visitors' parking spaces

[Ronbo]

There are 21 parking spaces, 14 for residents and 7 for visitors. New neighbour, who has a designated space, always parks in a vistors' spot closer to thier house.

Recently they seem to have acquired a small sailing boat. It sits on a trailer which they park next to thier car and takes up two more vistors spaces.

In thier defence - the car park is always half empty so the issue is not that somebody wouldn't be able to find a space.

I still think this is unreasonable though.

That would irritate me a bit

If there are always plenty of spaces, it's difficult to pick a fight about this, but if everyone uses the visitor spaces, then there would be none available for genuine visitors. I guess it's at that point that you would complain

I'm with you on this. Your n3ighbour is more than likely breaking the terms of the building lease. Mine makes it very clear that visitor spaces are just that, for visitors. Doesn't stop some cfs from using the spaces as residents spaces. Do you have a management company you could report to - particularly for the boat?

You need to report them to the management company (if there is one) or confront them about it. The longer it goes on the more awkward it will become to get them to change their behaviour. Just because the spaces are not needed at the moment doesn't mean they never will be.

If it isn’t an issue - as there is always a lot of free parking available- don’t make it an issue

Given there are plenty of free spaces, using one of the visitor ones wouldn't bother me, using a further 2 for a boat though?? That's just rude. It might just be a short term thing though.

Used to be the same where I lived, people would park in the visitors spaces so if they had visitors they would always have a space in the one designated to their property. If the numbers of spaces I don't think parking in one is overly problematic, but a boat on a trailer that's permanently in the visitor spaces is extracting the Michael.

YANBU

as a temporary solution (because they use the boat a lot in the summer), it would be ok.

If it's a permanent residence for the boat, it's not acceptable. Complain to the property management.

So the neighbour's car takes up one space and their boat takes up another 2? They are using 3 of the available 7?
I can see how that would annoy you, they have been lucky that it hasn't been an issue so far.

If their designated space was re-labelled for visitors, issue solved. Are they just being lazy and not walking a bit further?

Them using a visitors space wouldn't bother me as long as their numbered space is up for grabs. (we do this here).

However the boat would piss me off and you need to complain to the management company about it.

I would take the small boat out for a days sailing and if they object just say as it's in a communal space you assumed it was for communal use.

"and a very nice day it was too, thank you very much.!"

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles

I would take the small boat out for a days sailing and if they object just say as it's in a communal space you assumed it was for communal use.

"and a very nice day it was too, thank you very much.!"

Check the rules, OP, most councils prohibit the parking of boat trailers in designated parking places, so maybe your development’s management does, too...

If it’s not stopping visitors parking I wouldn’t be that bothered about them using a visitors space for their car (or I might quietly seethe but do nothing)

But they’re BU to use visitors spaces for their boat! And likely in breach of their lease so I would complain about that to the management company

What do they say if someone parks in their designated space? If they're happy to use the visitor spaces as 'theirs' and let visitors use their allocated space I wouldn't personally have an issue. The boat, however, might find itself set on fire and pushed offshore in the style of a Viking funeral.