Parking

[Spanky123]

We live in a small redevelopment of flats with a small parking bit with enough space for 2/3 cars. There are no on street residential parking permits available. One resident parks their car their all day everyday in the shared area, having bought a car without realising permits are not available. This means there is less space available for guests to use this spot and makes me angry that this person bought a car and permanently occupies it throughout the week. There have been no communicatiosn from this person about their parking habit. I would like to buy a car but clearly can't do this. My lodger has to park a 20min walk away to make sure we don't block or inconvenience this person! When the lodger parks elsewhwere in the small parking area this person also always normally has a issue with that.How do I address and raise this?

The parking spaces are actually for the flats?
Surely the car owner, as a resident, can park there then?
Or do you mean the car owner lives on the street but not in the flats and parks in the spaces for the flats?
In which case is there a management company that you can contact? Can you put private parking signs up & a warning about being towed?

I’m assuming they are only using 1 of the spaces, can your lodger not park in one of the other two?

Check the lease. It probably forbids long term parking in the visitor spots. Then use that as a basis to raise the issue either with the neighbours or with the management agency

It’s not clear in the op but doesn’t seem to be visitors parking, just 2-3 spots in total which the resident is using 1 so not sure why the ops lodger isn’t using one of the other ones.

Agree with PP. Check your Lease as to the rights to use the visitor parking spaces. It would be usual to limit use to a temporary basis of not more than 24 hours at a time, or reasonable use or something like that. All leases should be in a similar form so your neighbour’s lease will have the same restrictions.

Then approach your landlord or management company or managing agent, as applicable, about enforcing the lease covenants. Do be aware that any enforcement costs are likely to fall to you.

I live on a road that is permit holder only. The permit holder signs went missing in October. We informed the council to be told they won't be replaced until April 2025. My resident permit expires next July, so basically I've got a permit and also a visitors pass that's been paid for that is non enforceable. We find we can't get parked now as other people with no passes are parking there. Since the initial email, the parking enforcement are now ignoring us. Can anyone advise where I stand with this. Thank you.