Private Residents Parking in Scotland

Private Residents Parking in Scotland

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emicen

Original Poster:

8,558 posts

217 months

Monday 8th February 2016
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So, after a decade of nonsense I've finally lost my sense of humour with a local business' staff parking in the residents bays at our flat near Glasgow City Centre.

I understand all the contortions around no trespass law in Scotland, cant clamp cars legally, stickers on the windscreen are illegal etc etc.

Question is, what can be done?

Yes, I'm going to buy a bollard but the parking of the people in question is that shocking they pretty much park over 2 spaces most of the time anyways and if only our space in the line of 5 had one, then its not going to solve anything and we're still going to be blocked out of it!

s2kjock

1,677 posts

146 months

Monday 8th February 2016
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I thought the model of employing a parking management company that imposes charges on non-residents and threatens to take you to court for non-payment still works?

Resident's parking area near me uses one IIRC, although I don't know if the area needs to be of a certain size in order to make it economically viable for an operator to take on.

S2red

2,507 posts

190 months

Monday 8th February 2016
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Sadly I had same issue for 5 years turns out "private" residential parking is meaningless. We had bollards and they were knocked over pulled out or parked between them

Legal advice was you could not stop people parking.

I got round problem by my cousin training at dental hospital and his hours conveniently matched when my car was away

hkp57

285 posts

121 months

Tuesday 9th February 2016
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Have you written a letter to the company involved to complain? put a twist on it that it does not help their company image when residents start complaining to the newspapers

emicen

Original Poster:

8,558 posts

217 months

Tuesday 9th February 2016
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hkp57 said:
Have you written a letter to the company involved to complain? put a twist on it that it does not help their company image when residents start complaining to the newspapers
One of the main perpetrators is the business owner. It's a private nursery school catering for people working in town who leave their kids there all day, I doubt they care what the locals think (a decade ago when I was parking in the space whilst at Uni we had verbals over the fence regarding it).