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We live in a terrace, with our garage and rear yard accessed by a narrow back alley. The house is close to a local high street and we get a mix of residents with permits and those without parking over our back gate and garage, however mainly the gate. Do we have any right to access via the gate? It opens inwards, but people parking over it stop us getting bins etc through it. I have been thinking about putting some kind of signage up, but not sure if this is allowed?
I've seen a few thread for access to garages/drives, but nothing involving gates, any advice appreciated. I do need to contact my local council for advice, but they aren't particularly quick at responding to requests so thought I'd try here first.
Cheers
I've seen a few thread for access to garages/drives, but nothing involving gates, any advice appreciated. I do need to contact my local council for advice, but they aren't particularly quick at responding to requests so thought I'd try here first.
Cheers
Is the back alley an adopted road? Most aren't. If it isn't an adopted road the council won't be interested.
If it isn't an adopted road, try to find out who owns it. It's quite possible that you own the stretch in line with your yard immediately beyond the gate up to a point in the middle of the alley. The house backing onto the other side of the alley would own the other half. Everyone who lives on there will then probably have a right of access across it, but no right to park on it.
If it does turn out to be your land, you can enforce any parking restriction you impose as strictly as the likes of APCOA, Parking Eye etc., as long as the right signs are up.
If it isn't an adopted road, try to find out who owns it. It's quite possible that you own the stretch in line with your yard immediately beyond the gate up to a point in the middle of the alley. The house backing onto the other side of the alley would own the other half. Everyone who lives on there will then probably have a right of access across it, but no right to park on it.
If it does turn out to be your land, you can enforce any parking restriction you impose as strictly as the likes of APCOA, Parking Eye etc., as long as the right signs are up.
can you get any heavy tubs/flower pots which if placed would make parking harder ?
parking is a nightmare on private roads though- I used to have a house in a row of 8 in a village. it had an access road at either gable end round to the back, where we then all had 200' garden and garages, drives- but all separated from the houses.
and a park, cricket pitch at one end, thus:
you would get people parking on our private road, physically blocking access ! utter madness, given vast amounts of road parking, for free adjacent !
but block them in, they then have to potentially knock on 8 doors, of which you could then pretend not to hear them............. lots of fun.
I'm not suggesting this, but a neighbour had had enough of it one day- he drove a car trailer down the side of someones car once: they're not going to park on private property again.
parking is a nightmare on private roads though- I used to have a house in a row of 8 in a village. it had an access road at either gable end round to the back, where we then all had 200' garden and garages, drives- but all separated from the houses.
and a park, cricket pitch at one end, thus:
you would get people parking on our private road, physically blocking access ! utter madness, given vast amounts of road parking, for free adjacent !
but block them in, they then have to potentially knock on 8 doors, of which you could then pretend not to hear them............. lots of fun.
I'm not suggesting this, but a neighbour had had enough of it one day- he drove a car trailer down the side of someones car once: they're not going to park on private property again.
austinsmirk said:
I'm not suggesting this, but a neighbour had had enough of it one day- he drove a car trailer down the side of someones car once: they're not going to park on private property again.
Ah, you recall the tractor scraping the ramblers’ cars parked each side of a country lane.Foliage said:
Buy a scaffolding pole, walk around the corner carrying it at about side window height, don't look where you are going. Leave a note, do that a few times should sort it.
What a sad World we live in, where people think committing criminal damage to someone's property is a perfectly acceptable response to a parking problem 
Perhaps the OP should get a gang of mates together and kick seven bells of $h!t out of the person who parked outside their home?, or take a hammer and smash in the driver's skull?
Of course, if the car owner suspects that the damage to their car has been caused by the home owner, a gallon of petrol and a pack of matches through the letterbox in the middle of the night should send the right message back!
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