An update on this one. I posted a letter to all houses which are said to own the forecourt explaining that their penalty notices were illegal as per the sticky at the top of this forum and that if they continued to put notices on my car they would be leaving themselves open to prosecution for fraud and harrassment. I have since been away for 2 weeks - upon my return I have found that they have continued to apply FPN to my car. What is my next course of action? I sent the same letter to the PPC itself but have so far received nothing from them, no reply, nor demand for payment for the initial fine. What do I do next? Wait to hear back from the PPC? If I do I will continue to accrue fines...

Theres nothing in the terms of the letting, but he left us a book of information about the house which states there is parking space for 3 cars at the front of the house. The most annoying thing is that our cars aren't inconveniencing ANYONE where they are - they're just doing it now because they dont want to feel like they've lost

Thanks Jampot, The landlord is aware, but is siding with his neighbours who has lived with for 20 odd years. He has advised us through the letting agent that we no longer have rights to park there. I've checked the deed and the boundaries do not include the road, only the house. So either he has never had rights, and therefore can't take them away, or DOES have rights, and is reducing the terms of our letting - which was taken on the basis of 3 parking spaces, of which we only use 2. Help!

This is my first post so apologies if if this has been covered - i've looked through the forums but couldn't find a situation similar to mine. Me and my housemates rent a house which is on a private road. Our garage is accessible from the public street, but the front of our house is on the private road. For the past few months we have parked on the private road outside our house. The landlord's notes advise us that there is space for three cars there - we park 2 and another neighbour parks one. However, the next door neighbour has complained that us parking there means that he now has to do 2 manoeuvres instead of one to drive out - his garage is not blocked and our cars are always parked well before the kerb drops away for the entrance to his garage. These neighbours have become more and more petty, resorting to getting their son to park his van in front of their garage access so that we cannot get both cars into the space we normally park. When they have done this we have simply parked in another space in the private road which has made them more incensed. To cut a long story short we received a letter stating that controlled parking will be enforced from the start of next month and that any unauthorised or incorrectly parked vehicles will be issued a penatly, which will be enforced by a licensed operator. In conversations they have previously stated the rights to the private road are owned by a number of houses, but not ours and as such we have no rights to park there, despite this being the part of the road directly outside our house. So my question - if tickets are issued, I have read the ways that you can argue against paying these. However, if we intend to continue parking there regularly, which I assume would lead to numerous tickets, what is my legal position then? Can I then still ask them to prove I was the driver of the vehicle? What is our position anyway with regards to parking there? Has anyone been successful in similar situation? Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is becoming a real nightmare. We are leaving the house anyway in September but that still leaves 2 months of controlled parking to deal with. Cheers.