impending dispute, parking on driveway

[tittymcarsefa...]

The old miners village I live on has narrow roads so everyone uses their front "gardens" for parking because if you park on the street you would be causing an obstruction and likely get your mirrors smashed off.

Our landlord recently sent someone round who threatened my grandfather to remove our cars off the drive or he would have them scraped, we have two daily drivers a trailer tent and a reliant three wheeler that i'm converting into a trailer on the front.

After 15 years of not having a problem with us parking on our gravel driveway which has it's own dropped curb allowing access, the landlord has complained to the letting agent about us parking.

I suspect it is because of the trailer project which is a bit of an eyesore with the nose cone cut off, I was going to get rid of it but after the threatening visit decided to write a note on the windscreen instead saying "vehicle is registered and sworn off road any attempt to remove will be reported to the police"

We are now being told by the letting agent to remove our vehicles immediately as no permission has been granted to use the "GARDEN" for parking, I've called the letting agent asking why we are no longer allowed to park on the "DRIVE WAY" but the lady just said her manager was out and that she would get back to me.

Can a landlord tell me I can't park on my drive? without stipulating it in the tenancy agreement.

[UnknownStuntm...]

Even if he can't legally do that, if he wants a tenant out, he'll find another way to do it. You buy a house, you make your own rules. You rent someone elses (and lets face it, mortgages are renting from wealthier and less interested landlords, aren't they...) and you have to abide.

Get the shitters off the drive and say sorry to the landlord.

[grr666]

1. Not your drive, his drive. You are just hiring it.

2. Driveway refers to vehicles that are driveable, clue is in the name. Not for storing smashed up wrecks dumped there
for years on end. How is that any different from leaving piles of rubbish and smashed furniture there? If you were one of
my tenants I'd be just as unimpressed tbh and would seek to prevent it continuing to be there. The working cars I would
have no problem with, but with all the other garbage you have made a Steptoe and Son scrapyard. It's not on.

My own tenancy agreements contain the following clause.

[Riejufixing]

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[dydey90]

Have you ever had any problems at all with the landlord? Late rent, property damage etc.?

Every landlord I've ever talked to has horror stories about tenants. Their dream is to just have somebody live there and pay on time every month.
Try talking to your landlord. If you've lived there problem free for 15 years, chances are he's happy for you to stay there if you can sort this.
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[LustyLew]

Having lived next to someone who had two 'classic' cars rotting on their drive for 10+ years, I can sympathise with the landlord. Everyone on the street thought they were a c*nt and didn't give a fuck. The house always looked a state and showed they just didn't care.

In most cases I've found, it take a lot to piss off a landlord...

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It's also entirely possible that the landlord doesn't actually give a fuck, and neighbours have complained which has now made your problem his.
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[Ste]

How long have you had half a Reliant Robin as a feature in your front garden?

[thx1138]

It sucks but the way I see it, you run the risk of winning a battle and losing a war, i.e the tenancy won't get renewed, or if you are on a statutory periodic tenancy, then a section 21 notice giving you 2months to leave, but getting to park your cars there in the meantime

could try to negotiate, perhaps? pay a small bit extra for parking to smooth the waters

[Pete.]

What he said

OR

Don't drag someone else's property prices down by turning the front into a scrap yard.
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[tittymcarsefa...]

Not a scrap yard at all two cars are fully road legal tax insured mot'd, mine is used daily my grandfathers maybe once or twice a week.

I don't have parts lying around the place or oil stains everywhere etc, if i put a cover over the second robin (which is on sorn so cannot go on the road) you would never know it was incomplete, the trailer tent is in the corner with it's factory fitted cover on.

There has never been an issue with parking on the front before, when my grandfather first took the tenancy he was given permission to park on the front by the old manager and this landlords late father.

It was one of the few good things the house had going for it, when we moved in we even had to fit a whole kitchen because it had been scavenged to repair other occupied properties.

When you say dragging down the area you have to take into account these are single skin prefab concrete houses that have been untouched since the 70's (or earlier) and all renovation work that was being done has been abandoned by the current landlord for at the very least 5 years.

She even went as far as to send out letters telling tenants if they made complaints to environmental health about her houses that she would evict them.

[Ste]

[tittymcarsefa...]

[Ste]

[tittymcarsefa...]

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[grr666]

Don't take this the wrong way, I'm not having a dig at all but...

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[tittymcarsefa...]

The houses were an inheritance from her father so I assume they are fully paid up, her dad was actually a nice bloke it was him that said the house included parking, the company owns hundreds of houses on similar old mining villages in the area and all of them have houses in various states of disrepair.

I know there are new rules that say a landlord can get vehicles towed but there are no signs on the property stating no parking or any instructions within the tenancy agreement that parking is prohibited.

If a property you rent has a dropped curb and a driveway, and you were told when you moved in you could park there surely the landlord can't just send someone to your door at random and say move your cars or else i'm going to get them moved (all of them not just the robin with the nose off) which is what she did before contacting the letting agent.

I personally think she is just looking for excuses to evict people because her deadline from the council to get her slum houses in order is due soon.

Would my local council have records of planning permission for the dropped kerb? to find out how long it has been there and what it was to be used fo.

Some of the houses were built with driveways from new in the 60's according to my neighbour, she has lived in her house since it was new, her family moved in before the roads had even been surfaced so she should know.

[tittymcarsefa...]

[grr666]

Ever considered that she just wants to cash out and flog the place? You antagonising her will just accelerate that decision.

Lets say the place is worth 100k. That's about 310 months or 25 years worth of rent with zero the tenant related
hassle or requirement to keep the place spick and span. Just saying.

To quote a wise man. "Careful now."
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[tittymcarsefa...]

The last time she put any of her un renovated houses like ours up for auction they reached £30-35k so she pulled them off the market.

[J4mes]

where the fuck do you live?!

[Nobby the Bastard]