Parking covenant on title deed

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Our title deeds show we have a parking bay in front of our house wirh a covenant specifying that any private vehicle can park there for 24 hours during weekdays. Usage at weekend is not specified.

Our Residents' Association is saying that the space is communal i.e. not our sole access, and we must not prevent others from using it by marking our space with our house number.

1. Is simply marking our space with our house number preventing anyone using it? It is not a bollard.

1. TheResidents' Association is also saying they have now received legal advice informing them that they have a responsibility to maintain these communal parking bays.

However, they have not done so for 44 years (we have lived here for 16 years) as they previously understood they had no legal ground for involvement in the communal parking bays.

Can they suddenly reclaim the parking bay that I have parked in for 16 years outside my house and which appears on my title deed?

Then it should be in their deeds that they have a right to park in x spaces. Certainly a friend who bought on a new estate, with some communal spaces were identified on the deeds although her rights were not excluding to her

The clause that you have posted on here certainly doesn't sound like a space exclusive to your house unfortunately - it seems to be open to all. Agree that it would be worth getting someone to look at the deeds properly (although it sounds like the RA already has which is why it's suddenly realised it's responsible for the spaces!). Hope you get it sorted, OP.