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Another car parking one but one is abandoned

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ForTheLoveOfGrace · 13/05/2023 12:31

Wrote a huge thread trying to explain the situation but it got to long and complicated, it basically boils down to this.

Car on the left is parked outside their garage. Car in the middle is parked outside their garage. Both are in a communal spot but, it is mutually agreed that owners of the cars park outside their own garage.

Car on the right is an abandoned car and is owned buy the owner of the car the left. The abandoned car is also in a communal spot.

Communal means shared, no? Surely beneficial to all.

Is it unreasonable of car owner on the left?

NB:- although over grown the greenery on the far right is the land of the car in the middle and will be flatten and veg patch/flowers etc planted soon.

Another car parking one but one is abandoned
OP posts:
hedgehoglurker · 25/03/2024 10:43

OP, it is relevant that you are a tenant, because you don't automatically have the same rights to use of the communal area as the owner does.

What is in your tenancy agreement about the communal area? If use of it is included in your agreement, then I would think your complaint is with the landlord, not the owner of the car.

I hope you can arrange some suitable screening/ have the offending vehicle removed by owner or local authority, but I wouldn't advise spending much money on trying to achieve this. Especially as you are saving to purchase your own property.

randomchap · 25/03/2024 10:52

If you take the handbrake off can it be pushed? Depending on how flat the tyres are, and whether the brakes have seized

The morally dubious answer would be to get some friends to push it onto the road where it becomes the councils issue.

honeyandfizz · 25/03/2024 10:53

But surely another can will come just and park in the empty space? It really is not worth the angst you seem to be putting yourself through to post again a year later. Why have you not done more with the space over the last year if it bothers you this much? Chuck a few pots with bamboo in and problem solved no more ugly car to look at.

Saschka · 25/03/2024 11:39

You being a renter matters because it means that you have far less authority to say what happens on communal land if your landlord isn’t bothered about it. Your neighbour also has far less inclination to keep you on side if you aren’t going to be there long term. As you have seen.

Bloom15 · 25/03/2024 12:07

This would annoy me too - it is an eyesore.
Would your landlord not get involved?

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