Residential Park Homes

[Choppychunk]

Could someone please tell me, I live on a Park Home site which has management people keeping the site in order. I'm living with my parents and one of the rules are 1 car per household, which we abide by. My vehicle, up until recently was being parked on my neighbours driveway, which he pays rent for, as he doesn't own a car himself. This management crowd have been harassing my parents for sometime now about me removing my car from the site as it is a breach of their rules, they never come to me directly. They have also now started with the harassment again as I have been parking my car on a piece of common ground, and although its within the park, it does not belong to them and they are once again telling my parents to tell to remove it. Surely by parking my car on my neighbours drive counts as 1 car per the household. Anyone got any thoughts as this is now getting out of hand. Other residents bends the rule and have 2 or 3 cars but after talking to these people about the letters my parent receive, they say they have been given a letter. Would appreciate some advise. Thankyou

[fiction-factory]

So are you saying no-one else in your household has a car? Is there a designated space for your household. Or are you saying your family has a car but you are counting yours as coming under you neighbour's household space?

[bednobs]

your household is surely the people who live in your house, not them plus your neighbours?

[Ryzen]

Unless you move in with your neighbour you are in breach of the rules as they stand.

[Tilly2]

Rules are rules but that does seem very petty. You are using an vacant space to park your car. No one is being disadvantaged by your car being there. Why don't you take it up with the management yourself and see if you can come to a sensible arrangement?

[Choppychunk]

My father has a car so uses the space for our household, my neighbour has no car but gave permission for me to park my car on his space

[Buenchico]

Your neighbour is probably in breach of the site's rules too as, by allowing you to park your car in his space, he's effectively 'sub-letting' part of the area under his control (which I'd be prepared to bet is specifically prohibited under the terms of his agreement with the owners of the site).

While I agree that it does seem somewhat unreasonable for the site's management not to permit 'pooling' of car parking spaces between neighbours, I'm confident that they're within their rights to refuse to allow it.

So I don't think that you've got a leg to stand on in this case. Sorry!

[THECORBYLOON]

I would think that unless the rules clearly state that the car space must be used only for a car owned by a member of that particular household, I see no problem in your using a neighbour's.

Ultimately, any dispute can be raised with the folk here, www.gov.uk/housing-tribunals if you want to take it that far.

[THECORBYLOON]

www.gov.uk/housing-tribunals

[Mamyalynne]

https://www.gov.uk/housing-tribunals

[Tilly2]

You need to address this yourself rather than letting your parents be harrassed.

[jno]

he may not be able to do so if his parents are the official tenants, Tilly? I mean, he can try, but they may be the ones answerable for breaches of the rules.

You need to look at what the rules actually say.

[david small]

Unfortunately this world is filled with sad, petty, jealous individuals who in this case have you by the curlie’s.
Morally you are doing no harm. But, in their shallow malevolent minds you are transgressing Site Rules.
In short, move your car. Life sometimes sucks.

[Buenchico]

^^^ Those 'sad, petty, jealous individuals' might actually be under the thumbs of the people in the local planning department.

In my local area people living on park home sites have been getting away with breaking lots of Site Rules for years (even though those rules came about as conditions of the planning permission for the site), with the site owners turning a blind eye to such breaches.

Recently, however, the council's planning department have started to clamp down on such rule-breaking, threatening to take the site owners to court unless they ensure that the rules on their sites are actively enforced.

Perhaps the site owners where Choppychunks lives are under pressure from the local council to keep enforcing their rules?

[AKMild]

A bit of a leftfield solution, but maybe you could 'sell' your car to your neighbour but rather than him give you money for it, he gives you the right to drive it whenever you want to and to use his drive. Of course, you'd have to agree to tax and insure the vehicle but its ownership could be in your neighbour's name, which would seem (on the face of it at least) not to break the site's rules.