AIBU to let my daughter’s boyfriend use marked visitor parking regularly?

[NBParking]

NC’d as outing.

Recently moved onto a new build estate, up the road from us is three terraced houses with five parking spots in front of them. Each of the three houses have one and two are very clearly marked as visitor spots.

My DDs boyfriend visits us regularly, can vary from one night a week to 2/3 nights depending on both their shift patterns. She has been parking in one of the visitor spots.

The first of the three residents moved in last week. Yesterday one of the site managers knocked on the door and asked DD to move the car as the houses are now lived in and the resident had complained (some people / contractors park on the still empty houses). DD explained that it was visitor parking and that is was our visitor parked there. Site manager said he would need to go away and look at the plans (thought he would have done this before coming over tbf).

So AIBU to tell him to continue to park there? Legally he can, rules are visitors up to 48 hours at a time (I’ve checked the convents we signed). I would HATE someone effectively parked on my drive, outside my window etc but I would never have bought that house. Resident must have seen and signed the same plans as us?

If the resident comes over to speak to us, how would you respond?

Site plan attached.

Where do you park?

Our resident cars are on the drive.

would it be better if he parked in one of the other two visitors spots that aren’t outside someone’s house?

Are you sure it’s not visitors for the terraced houses rather than visitor parking for the whole estate?

If it says up to 48 hours does it say anything about return within time?

Someone who stays at your house up to 3 nights a week isn't a visitor and that isn't how the spaces are meant to be used. You're being selfish.

The two outside 187 & 200 are pretty much always in use (by what we think are residents, but we’re not sure and have no plans to challenge it). Would be happy to use them if they are ever empty. 236 (and more spots off the image around the corner) are not open yet.

Oh my parking on this estate is going to be a nightmare. No on road parking for households with more than one/two cars, delivery vans and visitors and only a handful of visitors spaces. It's going to get ugly fast.

As PP have pointed out, there are visitor spots that aren’t directly in front of houses, he should use those.

In the long term, it looks like parking generally will to be a problem on the estate, there’s no point in falling out with people now unnecessarily.

I was thinking the same

He should be parking on the road in front of your house and moving his car when you need to get off the driveway. I can’t believe you’d rather upset your neighbours than some boyfriend. Visitor spaces are for people popping in, not for a cocklodger who’s there half the week.

I would interpret that map as visitor spaces for those 3 houses, especially as pretty much all other houses have two dedicated spaces and they have one. It's pretty selfish to park there either way.

They’ll be visitor spots for the houses they’re in front of, not visitor spots for every Tom, Dick and Harry on the estate 🫣

Do you have 2 parking spaces? What number are you?

I think the v is for visitors to those terraces houses. The estate should have just marked them as 2 spaces each to avoid confusion

Are they labelled on the ground with a V or just that site plan you have? Looking at the other houses they have of the same style they have 2 allocated spaces- and your plan is just marketing not deeds.

This looks very badly designed. Is there any ability to street park where it isn’t blocking drives? I would probably just get him to block one of us in on our drive but it depends on your parking setup too.

We have something similar, our is Viator spaces outside a small block of flats, 5 visitors spaces and about 10 resident spaces

We have no street parking in the cul de sac so no choice of either using these or on a main road outside someone else's house.

We do it, residents leave notes on windscreen and management company writes to everyone these are for all on a first come first served basis.

We find it's people in the flats that want the spaces for their second vehicle as they only get one space.

So there is only 2 visitor spots for all those house and they happen to be out side 2 properties right in the middle?

something is not making sense, is there visitors parking on the perimiter outside the photo range?

@wishfulthinking25 & @roshi42 I guess that’s possible but wasn’t told that way by the sales agents (who I know will do anything for a sale) but also highlighted on the solicitors plans we signed?

None of them are labelled on the ground. Fred’s photo just attached, currently waiting for it to load.

Yes there are other visitor spots around the outside of our street.

It looks to me that each house has two spaces but they couldn’t do that for the 3 terraces so they’ve given them 2 to share

if you are now effectively a 3 car household it’s very selfish to be using a visitor space semi permanently anyway. As pp said, can’t he park over your drive?

Those houses may have been sold with extra visitor parking as part of the package.

Perhaps the people who bought those houses need extra parking for nursing or carer requirements?

Why can’t he park over your drive blocking you in? Then just move as needed for you to get in and out?

Hold on a minute, @NBParking are you saying that your dd uses 1 of the 2 visitor spots as her parking spot and now her boyfriend is regularly using the other if so thats bang out of order and your dd needs to find a different parking spot as she's not a visitor she's a resident.