Thread: New estate to bring in parking enforcement, help

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Hi

I first posted the above thread a couple of days ago.

I'm really unhappy and advice is appreciated.

My partner and I are both car owners and we were looking for a rented property for our daughter after xmas. We found a couple of lovely homes and our current home was the favourite. We were told our current home came with one allocated parking space but we could park on the road we lived on.

To give you some history on the house, its a brand new development not close to anywhere. It consists of business space, schools, supermarkets etc. They're planning on building pretty much a new town. We live in phase 1, phase 2 is the school and not yet completed, more phases to come. There is a management firm (I assume are paid through the flats service charge) who monitor the estate via CCTV and keep it clean etc. All in all very nice place to live.

Anyway...... We've been going on with our business as normal for the last 6 months and earlier this week I get a note on my car from concerned residents asking me not to park on the road, that the management firm are in the process of bringing in a parking enforcement firm. Notes on cars really wind me up, I'd far rather someone knock on my door and tell me what's going on or put a leaflet through my door. So I go looking for the residents contact at the management firm, he confirms they're bringing in a parking enforcement company. Apparently the thought process behind the design was to encourage homeowners to keep the number of cars in a household down. I like the initiative but would respect it much more if I was told about it at the time of signing the lease. I asked the management firm how we're expected to know and he told me all the details are included in the lease our landlord had to sign and the estate agent should have told us.

Where do we stand with these parking people? There is no where in the local area where we can park our car which will be safe once the parasites are out in force. We have to have 2 cars, we both work nationally. One of our cars has to go on the road.

To say I'm unimpressed is an understatement, had we been made aware of this at the time of viewing we would have run for the hills but we were told we could park our other car on the road no problem. I've got a thread on the renting section because I think our landlord should release our deposit if we break the contract as a result of this.

It seems the estate agents, and the on-site sales agents for the builder have been telling prospective buyers and tenants they can park where they like just to get them to sign on the dotted line.

Sorry for the rant, am fuming about the underhand motives by the vermin agents.

Thanks

Done some research on this type of parking [problem]s, what do we do if they clamp?

Yep, get yourself an angle grinder - no one would give them the time of day because you have every right to park there. If such a problem arises you may wish to consult a solicitor and consider suing the managing agents for any damages.

P.S. If you do angle grind a clamp - make sure you always wear a protective mask.

TFT

Originally Posted by green_and_mean

Ridiculous advice!! If the car is going to be left there on a regular basis and you start cutting clamps off you can look forward to waking one morning to find the car towed, unless of course you intend keeping watch 24/7.

What's your advice then Green and Mean???????. If you don't mind me saying you are rude to say the least. Just because your advice is different to others, it doesn't mean you always know best (that is being arrogant!). Learn some diplomacy!

TFT