Parking dispute- any advice apart from let the tyres down!!

[Eve]

I live on a private estate wtih private parking which is jointly owned by all of the residents. The entrance is clearly marked private residents only.

Recently we have had a chap in a very nice SLK Merc parking in the car park from Fri evening to Monday morning. When told it was residents only by one of my elderly neighbours he got quite aggressive and was squaring up for a battle....he is late 20s ish....bigish bloke so you can guess the sort of pleasant reasonable person he is! (wears a burberry cap as well!!)

He lives in a council house 2 roads away and doesn't want to leave his car outside his house over the weekend as he doesn't want it damaged...hence why he parks it in our car park.

He fails to see the irony of him thinking his neighbours will damage his car but yet its alright for him to trespass and cause nuisance to someone else!

I don't want a confrontation...its only parking! but he has parked here yet again tonight and now its irritating me!

....any suggestions/ideas? Anyone know how you can get someone clamped. or I am being too petty about the whole thing??

PS....the Police don't want to know as it is on private property!

I love Jampot idea, report it dumped!

Eve, as you residents are the management company and own the freehold it is entirely down to you to deal with. Can you club together or take money from your managments funds to get him clamped by a private company? As far as the police is concerned, it IS private property and not a criminal matter but a civil matter. Tyres being let down is understandable! I would be sorely tempted BUT it is criminal damage and a criminal offence! The laws an ass eh?! Unfortunately I had the same problem with cars on teh private estate where I used to live. Fortunately we had an independent management company which used to deal with it by way of clamping. Reporting it stolen and dumped won't work as the first hing the police do is do a check and it won't be reported stolen. At the most, they'll call on the owner to make sure it's not stolen. The council won't deal either because it's private property. Private removal firm is really your only option. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

Lipstick on his windscreen, an egg thrown at the windows (preferably on a dry day, it is horrific to get off once dried)?

You definitely need to get together and put a chain and padlock up, preferably whilst his car is in there!

Parking problems are the pits. We live in a street of terraced houses and don't have enough room for everyone to park, especially when some houses have 2 or 3 vehicles. Unfortunately we don't have ownership rights to stop them parking there.

I did once get the traffic warden to ticket an un-taxed car that had taken to parking outside our house though

Our local paper had a story in it recently about parents dropping kids off at nursery and parking in the private car park of the flats opposite. The residents informed the nursery that if it didn't stop that they would employ private clampers, nursery informed parents, residents put notices up to that effect and on cars ... parking continued, clampers came in, parents clamped, but brouhaha but problem solved.

In short, you need some kind of action that will make it undesirable for this oik to park there. As you own the freehold, can you club together to get clampers in? The blocking him in idea is a good one as a short term hit. Is there a nice big bloke that can deal with him rather than an elderly gentleman? How infurtiating for you.

My sister lives in a private road and was told something similar by police when a horrible neighbour parked on the road outside her house so that they could no longer swing out of their drive and so couldn?t use their own drive anymore. Neighbour too aggressive and unreasonable to discuss - worried that he will follow it up with a brick through the window. They phoned police who initially said not to do with them as it was a private road issue, phoned council who agreed that it was unreasonable behaviour and that they would contact the police on her behalf - they came round and insisted on him moving. Might be worth speaking to the council - esp. if it is taking up someone?s specific parking place/ acting aggressively towards residents.

Print up a notice informing him that he is trespassing etc and this is private parking then stick it to his windscreen on the drivers side with superglue? Then when he comes to collect his car, phone the local paper and get a reporter and photographer around?

Sprinkle braedcrumbs all over the roof of the car and bonnet, then watch as all the birds poop on his lovely car

If this chap is as unpleasant as you say, there's no way I would get into "pranks" like eggs, super glue, letting tyres down, etc. You don't want to get into a battle with him, and have him taking revenge against residents. Also, you don't want to damage his property, as that is a criminal act.

I'd go the route of posting a notice advising that it is private property for resident's parking only, what will happen if someone other than resident's park there (clamping or being towed away), and then follow it up next time he parks there.

I've seen notices that advise who to contact (clamping/towing firm) if action is taken against your car. For example: 'Private Property. Resident's Parking Only. Violators will be towed/clamped. Please contact ABC Clamping Firm on 011011011 if your car is clamped." Good luck.

You can buy wheel clamps here for as little as £50. You'd just need a burly man to go with it to act as the "unclamper".

ring dvla and tell them it was involved in a car accident and for £2.50 you can get owner details. Then when they come through ring hte Police and report it stolen yourself, and then get someone else to report it with a ticking noise coming from it, then watch as the army bomb disposal come and blow it up???? Yeah i thought a bit extreme too

private roads association

I dreamt about the car last night. In my dream it was a convertable and it had the roof half open.

When I realised took the whole roof off

then had a very sick DS and held him over the white leather seats and waited for him to vomit all over the inside of the car

Then I woke up and thought about it and thought it was a shame that it hadn't been the week before when you could have thrown eggs over it and the police would have thought it was trick or treaters IYSWIM

The worse smell that I can think of for you to put in the car {which of course you can't} is CATS WEE !!!!

BTW I agree with everyone else and think that you have to act within the law however frustating it is for you.

Sorry I can't come up with any more ideas that you can use against this man,

sorry have read my post back and realised that it may have not been very fair, but I just thought I would tell you that I had been thinking about your problem and then dreamt about it.

Do you have a friend who is a policeman or woman could they be around next friday in the police car when he arrives to park for the week?

Does he work away during the week so therefore not park in area during week? Does he come and go during weekend or is it left untouched all weekend?