'Please do not park here'

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Bobton125

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280 posts

70 months

Thursday 18th April
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Sporky said:
But you just said it's not a parking space.

Bit like if somewhere isn't a bowling alley you probably shouldn't chuck bowling balls around.
You don’t park anywhere unless it has designated markings on the ground?

Bobton125

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280 posts

70 months

Thursday 18th April
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Ken_Code said:
It had bushes on it at the start of the thread, what happened to them?
You know those weedy bushes you get? Them

Not something someone’s been growing intentionally

Bobton125

Original Poster:

280 posts

70 months

Thursday 18th April
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Gareth79 said:
OP, have you used the Land Registry map search to look up if it's registered yet? If it is, £3 and you'll have your answer.
I have to no avail.. it only gives me details of the nearest garage of which the border does not include the random patch of land I’ve been parking on. It very clearly only outlines the perimeter of the garage.

Car bon

4,654 posts

65 months

Thursday 18th April
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Have you spoken to the old guy yet ?

He seems to know enough to be confident it doesn't belong to you......

Bobton125

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280 posts

70 months

Thursday 18th April
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Car bon said:
Have you spoken to the old guy yet ?

He seems to know enough to be confident it doesn't belong to you......
Not yet but will update when I do/or atleast when I next park there. I haven’t had to recently as found spaces on the street

Car bon

4,654 posts

65 months

Thursday 18th April
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At the moment, you're in a position for a pleasant conversation as you've been trying to find the owner of the land to seek permission to park there. I'd have the conversation now.

Plan B - wait until you need to park there again & leave a letter addressed to the land owner.

Otherwise, head in sand I guess......

RSTurboPaul

10,396 posts

259 months

Thursday 18th April
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CambsBill said:
RSTurboPaul said:
As already mentioned, Land Registry map search will give you the actual registered landowner.

https://search-property-information.service.gov.uk...
Not always. At our last house we (and two neighbours) accessed our garage via an unadopted road. Every time one of the houses was sold there'd be the same rigmarole of trying to find out who actually owned the road, as the local council, county council, Highways & everyone else who was asked denied owning it. There was nothing on LR either, so the eventual result was an insurance indemnity as part of the house sale.

Ultimately, I suppose, the Crown owns anything that isn't registered anywhere else.
You are correct.

Perhaps I should have said 'Land Registry will either confirm who owns it or show they have no records on it'. If the latter, that is at least confirmation that further investigation is required.

If they have no records, perhaps grumpy neighbour owns it and has the deeds at home.

Halitosis

158 posts

58 months

Thursday 18th April
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How about leaving your car there with a polite note on the dashboard stating "If you own this land please call me on xxx and I will immediately remove my car."

oyster

12,608 posts

249 months

Thursday 18th April
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This thread, yet again, highlights how people seem obsessed with parking provision immediately outside their property without paying for such provision (driveway, garage, allocated bay etc.)

When I lived in a town centre and couldn’t get parked near my flat, I’d not think twice about parking it somewhere further away (in a legal and courteous manner).

Entitled and lazy. Two words that keep private parking companies in profit.

Gary C

12,482 posts

180 months

Friday 19th April
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Oh come on, some very self righteous people on here (quelle surprise)

if its as OP describes, a bit of scrub land thats not being used for anything, then why not park there if its doing no one any harm ?

the issue is, does the old boy own it, or is he just being an arse

But, talk to him. Quick, easy and you will know more importantly if it is causing an issue for him which would be the most important consideration.

TimmyMallett

2,847 posts

113 months

Friday 19th April
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Bobton125 said:
It's not A parking space
Is it Schrodinger's parking space? So only becomes a space if you park on it?

Dingu

3,787 posts

31 months

Friday 19th April
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What an entitled idiot you are OP.

M4cruiser

3,651 posts

151 months

Friday 19th April
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Dingu said:
What an entitled idiot you are OP.
No need for that comment Dingu, I thought the OP was doing ok, and doing what most people do.

I own a space near my house, it's actually on my deeds and "attached" to the boundary of my property, yet other people park there because it doesn't look privately owned.
I don't mind short-term delivery vans, repair chaps etc, but when my neighbour started parking there every night I had to take action. It's the way we British are. But in my case I knew I owned it.

Chrisgr31

13,485 posts

256 months

Friday 19th April
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Gary C said:
Oh come on, some very self righteous people on here (quelle surprise)

if its as OP describes, a bit of scrub land thats not being used for anything, then why not park there if its doing no one any harm ?.
Because it’s not a parking area, it’s not his land and he has been asked not to by someone that may be the owner of the land. Surely the self righteous people are those parking off road on land they don’t own?

Parking on scrubland is all very well but before you know it you have people parking on verges etc which may be what the neighbour who asked him not to park there is concerned about. However as the OP hasn’t spoken to the neighbour we don’t know why he doesn’t want the OP parking there.

rustyuk

4,582 posts

212 months

Friday 19th April
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I'd be speaking to the Council to try and buy.

Ken_Code

411 posts

3 months

Friday 19th April
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Doesn’t having an R8 and nowhere to park it belong in the “a bit council” thread?

Bobton125

Original Poster:

280 posts

70 months

Friday 19th April
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Ken_Code said:
Doesn’t having an R8 and nowhere to park it belong in the “a bit council” thread?
Haha R8 lives in a garage wink

Bobton125

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280 posts

70 months

Friday 19th April
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Dingu said:
What an entitled idiot you are OP.
Who rattled your cage? You don’t even know the full story! Aside from the helpful comments,God there are some judgmental snowflakes here.

You seem the type who wouldn’t borrow a library card with someone else’s name on it…

Bobton125

Original Poster:

280 posts

70 months

Friday 19th April
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Gary C said:
Oh come on, some very self righteous people on here (quelle surprise)

if its as OP describes, a bit of scrub land thats not being used for anything, then why not park there if its doing no one any harm ?

the issue is, does the old boy own it, or is he just being an arse

But, talk to him. Quick, easy and you will know more importantly if it is causing an issue for him which would be the most important consideration.
Someone who understands! Thank you!

The question at hand here is not if I should or shouldn’t be parking there, it’s if the resident down the road has any rights to the land to actually tell me where I can/can’t park.

Ofcourse I’m not pig headed enough to just keep parking there if he is the genuine owner.

blueg33

35,951 posts

225 months

Friday 19th April
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Bobton125 said:
Call me selfish, but I don’t really care who owns it.. if the owner comes to me and says to stop parking then I’ll listen. I’m not going out of my way to find who the owner is for the occasional time I park there when it’s busy if the real owner doesn’t actually care for this unkept bit of land
Entitled plonker IMO.

You simply can't just rock up and park on a bit of land because you don't know who owns it and can't be arsed to find out.