Designated parking spaces in your estate - do you park in other peoples?

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If you lived in a housing estate with numbered parking spaces in the carpark (to correspond with your house number!), do you park in other peoples's spots? Bear in mind, there are extra parking spaces to accommodate houses with two cars or for visitors?

Is it too difficult to get visitors etc in the extra parking spaces or do people just have no regard for their neighbours and continue to park in other peoples spaces even when asked not to???
 
musicfan said:
Is it too difficult to get visitors etc in the extra parking spaces or do people just have no regard for their neighbours and continue to park in other peoples spaces even when asked not to???
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That seemed to be the case where I used to live.... luckily have a driveway now and don't miss the communal parking in the old place...nightmare...
 
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I live somewhere where there are numbered spaces and I am sick to death of coming back and finding people in my space. I used to leave notes for them not to park in my space, but then someone damaged my drivers door and drove off (not saying it was deliberate.....but....) At this stage I just park in one of the near (numbered) spaces that doesn't seem to be used if mine is taken. If no one else cares, why should I. I paid a lot of money for my home, so I think I should be allowed to park in my own space.
At the end of the day, where I live, it would actually be a lot easier if there were no numbers on any spaces and everyone just parked where they wanted.
 
Designated parking spaces seem to cause nothing but hassle.

The complex Im in has communal parking - but not numbered spaces and it works fine. Theres more than enough spaces for residents and visitors. Ive never seen the carpark completely full.

My partners old place had numbered parking and there were forever disputes about people parked in other peoples spaces, visitors didnt have anywhere to park once the 6 visitor spaces were taken up.

The only thing I can recommend is to block in the car in your space by parking behind it and put a note on your windscreen saying where you are, that way they will have to call to you to ask you to move so they can get out, then you can explain that they were in your space and should not have been.
 
Thankfully I have moved on to my own driveway but I used to live in an estate with this arrangement - a lot of people put in bollards like this [broken link removed]
 
Thanks for your responses.....

I was just curious to see how other people felt about it.......

I have tried blocking in the car parked there, if I say anything, I am told there is other parking spaces available for me........then why don't they park there so!!!! I'd nearly understand if there was no other parking spaces available........

I've even looked out the window a few times and have seen my car blocked in by other cars (when there are other car spaces free!) but luckily these have always been moved by the time I need to move my car.
 
In response to someone telling me there are other spaces available for me Id tell them that Ive paid for the space with my number on it and Im unwilling to park elsewhere as I would only be inconveniencing someone else!!!

Ive yet to meet someone living in a designated parking area who doesnt report problems of one sort or another. Its one of those ideas thats great in theory but doesnt seem to work in practice.
 
truthseeker said:
In response to someone telling me there are other spaces available for me Id tell them that Ive paid for the space with my number on it and Im unwilling to park elsewhere as I would only be inconveniencing someone else!!!
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I've tried that but they obviously don't care about inconveniencing other people or they wouldn't park in my spot!! That would work if you were talking to 'normal' people ......... Not true in this case.

I always ensure I don't park in somebody elses spot - I will always park in the visitors spots.......when my spot is gone! The once I did park in their spot while I went to knock on their door, I was told that they couldn't move their car cos I was in their spot!!!!

I now know that nothing will work these people (don't want to push it too much as I have to live there after all) but I now know I'm not being unreasonable and I'm not the only person who this has happened to!
 
I also have it bad, we live in a house with its own drive way and the rented house next door kept parking there visitors in our drive way even tho we fully use it we tried loads to stop this (knocking on the door , blocking them in) in the end the only thing that stop them was to build a wall
 
I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets annoyed about this. I tried to chill about it but it still bugs me. I'd definitely prefer no numbers and everyone park where they want.

musicfan said:
I've even looked out the window a few times and have seen my car blocked in by other cars (when there are other car spaces free!)
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:mad: Your space must be very near the door!
 
Auntie said:
I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets annoyed about this. I tried to chill about it but it still bugs me. I'd definitely prefer no numbers and everyone park where they want.
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In situations where there are no numbers, the problem then becomes that people start putting bollards, bins etc in the space outside their house when they are not there :rolleyes: so you can't really win...
 
I print out a sign on A4 paper.. On the sign it says "This spot is reserved, please use over flow spots which this is not" and I put it on the windscree nof the car.

Usually does the trick but if not and they do it again, I print out the sign on A4 sticker and that definitely does the trick
 
Ours are numbered and there are visitor spaces which require a visitors permit to be displayed (with a limited time for parking). There are signs up to say clamping in operation. If a car parks in a parking place which is not theirs, the owners of the space ring the clampers or if a car outstays the visitors permit, they are clamped (I'm guessing members of the committee organise this). While it takes time to have the clamp removed, it certainly acts as a deterrent.

I don't think its seen as being 'un-neighbourly'. The cars parked without permission are seen this way. The outcome of parking illegally is clearly written and displayed in the complex and its simply the rule. It seems to work very well.
 
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