How do I stop people parking on a grass verge?
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To make the grass grow you need to make sure the soil is properly aerated. In order to do this you will need to put little hollow tubes into the ground, a few inches deep, so the air can get to the roots. The tubes can be made of anything, but one-inch metal pipe would be good. The tubes need to stick up from the ground a few inches or else soil clogs them up.
This will get you a lovely lawn.
whatever you do, don't park on it, because the lawn-airing tubes will puncture tyres very easily
OR: invest into a tyre clamp!
This will get you a lovely lawn.
whatever you do, don't park on it, because the lawn-airing tubes will puncture tyres very easily
OR: invest into a tyre clamp!
GasBlaster said:
To make the grass grow you need to make sure the soil is properly aerated. In order to do this you will need to put little hollow tubes into the ground, a few inches deep, so the air can get to the roots. The tubes can be made of anything, but one-inch metal pipe would be good. The tubes need to stick up from the ground a few inches or else soil clogs them up.
This will get you a lovely lawn.
whatever you do, don't park on it, because the lawn-airing tubes will puncture tyres very easily
OR: invest into a tyre clamp!
You're advocating damaging cars? Not what I expected on here, expecially since it's clear the grass verge doesn't belong to this persons house and just happens to be in front of it! My brother in law got both mirrors on his M3 smashed for parking across two spaces in a car park and he wasn't at all happy about it, even though it could be said somebody had a reason for doing it. (It annoys me people parking across two spots to save their precious car, I'm just not inclined to damage property to make my point. Either I take the moral high ground or I just leave it in case they are a bigger than me!)
If you lay rocks/posts on public property, you can get your legs slapped. My local authority did someone recently for rocks.
Then you've got to consider how you'll pay the compensation when someone damages her motor on it, or little Johnny hits it on his bike, falls off, hits the next one with his head and dies.....
Then you've got to consider how you'll pay the compensation when someone damages her motor on it, or little Johnny hits it on his bike, falls off, hits the next one with his head and dies.....
If it's your grass verge, you can do what you want, if it's not, then mind your own business.
My wife is like this, always going on about who's parked outside our house, its a public pavement and a public road, as long as my drive isnt blocked, it's nothing to do with me.
Sorry for the lack of sympathy
My wife is like this, always going on about who's parked outside our house, its a public pavement and a public road, as long as my drive isnt blocked, it's nothing to do with me.
Sorry for the lack of sympathy
Could I ask a relevant but slightly OT question to any one awake! There is a section on one side of our house which is on the deeds. Because of the positioning of hedges etc, we don't have access to it without going to our neighbours. When we last discussed it, they acknowledged that it was our property, but they use it for storing bikes etc, and we don't want to dispute that.
Are there any hazards in this situation that I should know?
Are there any hazards in this situation that I should know?
wendyg said:
Could I ask a relevant but slightly OT question to any one awake! There is a section on one side of our house which is on the deeds. Because of the positioning of hedges etc, we don't have access to it without going to our neighbours. When we last discussed it, they acknowledged that it was our property, but they use it for storing bikes etc, and we don't want to dispute that.
Are there any hazards in this situation that I should know?
If anything they store causes a problem you'll have to deal with it! Quick example, if a delivery driver hurts himself dropping something off on this piece of land you are liable even if it's on something your neighbours left there.
Balmoral Green said:
If it's your grass verge, you can do what you want, if it's not, then mind your own business.
My wife is like this, always going on about who's parked outside our house, its a public pavement and a public road, as long as my drive isnt blocked, it's nothing to do with me.
Sorry for the lack of sympathy
Indeed. The description given is not really enough to tell us if the parking is really an issue. Is this neighbours who are parking on this verge? Are the alternative places to park? There are a whole raft of questions needing answers really before its possible to determine if blocking the parking is appropriate. If it is then a simple set of posts should do it. Vandalising peoples cars will only ensure you get your windows kicked in followed by your head probably, best bet is see whos parking there then see what the rest of the neighbours say.
wendyg said:
Could I ask a relevant but slightly OT question to any one awake! There is a section on one side of our house which is on the deeds. Because of the positioning of hedges etc, we don't have access to it without going to our neighbours. When we last discussed it, they acknowledged that it was our property, but they use it for storing bikes etc, and we don't want to dispute that.
Are there any hazards in this situation that I should know?
I'd like to see an answer to that question, too....anybody?
mybrainhurts said:
Could I ask a relevant but slightly OT question to any one awake! There is a section on one side of our house which is on the deeds. Because of the positioning of hedges etc, we don't have access to it without going to our neighbours. When we last discussed it, they acknowledged that it was our property, but they use it for storing bikes etc, and we don't want to dispute that.
Are there any hazards in this situation that I should know?
I'd like to see an answer to that question, too....anybody?
Give us a chance - some of us actually sleep at night
OK - I imagine Wendy you are concerned about your neighbours gaining ownership of your land.
This is an area that is changing at the moment.
If your land is registered - and it's likely to be if it's been bought or transferred in the last 25 years. Then the position seems now to be that the European Court of Human Rights have very recently ruled that it is "wrong" that registered land can be taken away from its rightful owner without either notice or compensation. This is very new and there is no real indication of what might happen from here.
The old position and the position for unregistered land is that to claim Adverse Possession of land a person needs to:
be in actual possession of the land,
enclose the land so as to keep out the world at large and the rightful owner in particular, thereby enjoying exclusive use of the land,
act with the intention of being the owner,
hold himself out to be the owner,
satisfy the 12 year qualifying period laid down in the Limitation Act 1980
(apols to the site I stole these from).
Wendy - in your case, your neighbour is using your land with consent and this does not allow them to claim adverse possession - they also do not meet the other requirements so you shouldn't have a problem. Having said that - I'd be tempted to specifically have the conversation with them about consent and then keep a clear note of the conversation in case there is any doubt in the future. It would be a pretty tenuous claim though.
These apply to claiming chunks of land - usually bits of fields that have migrated into gardens etc. etc. Different rights apply to gaining rights of way over land.
Hope this helps!
vixpy1 said:
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nonsense
T-Cut is what is needed here
I'd go for liberal quantities of minearl-based brake fluid myself...
Nahh, Barry Scott would sort it out!
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