"Rusty" wrote in message ...
"markzoom" wrote in message
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What are my rights?
There is a track which runs adjacent to the wall of my house which
provides access to eight garages (including my own)and another house.
It is not registered as belonging to anyone and is not public. It is
about 2 vehicles wide. To still allow access to the garages, cars
occasionally park less than 60cms from my house wall,
sometimes in front of my living room window, sometimes in front of my
kitchen window and external gas meter and flue. Someone slamming their
car door or running the engine makes my house vibrate, sometimes at
night. The bleep from a remote car door opener would wake me.

1) Do I have rights to prevent people parking this close to my house?
2) Do I have rights to claim the parking spaces my own and erect a
"private parking" notice?


AIUI if the land owner cannot be traced it belongs to the parish or town
council and comes under highway rules. If they wanted to they could
install double yellow lines, but they wouldn't want to if there is no
traffic obstruction and I don't think the parking causing a nuisance to one
house would weigh very heavily with them.
Is it an unadopted dirt track, if not who tarmacs it.
I will see if I can check up on this as it happens a lot in my village which
has a lot of unowned streets.

rusty

That would be good, thanks.
I am under the impression that I have some kind of say over what
happens within 1M of my house walls. I also have two windows facing
it, which would be partly obscured by a parked vehicle. There is also
a gas meter+gas stop cock and a low gas flue on the wall.

The other thing is that I sometimes get comments from the garage
owners about vehicles parked there which are zilch to do with me,
though about twice a week my friends/visitors park there (sensibly)
since I only have one parking space. I've therefore been telling
strangers not to park there.

Some neighbours say that nobody should park there but it would be me
who would end up policing it, something which I would have little
incentive to do if I can't occasionally use it. I would have to switch
to parking nazi mode twice a week and that's just not worth the aggro.