Came home to a very annoying letter at the end of a busy week. Was hoping for some input, particularly from those more legally aware on the following situation…
We live in a managed estate that consists of three roads. Parking is monitored by UKPC and managed by the company managing the estate. There have been parking issues for a while with people either using duplicated visitor passes to park in a visitor bay or just general vehicle abandonment (not that we have really seen much of this down our particular road).
The current parking setup is that all houses have a visitor parking permit that they can display in the window of their car when using a visitor bay (for any car), all other cars will receive parking fines if not displaying these in a bay and not parked on a private drive. We usually have the ///M sit in a visitor bay unless it is used, as the drive and garage have the other two cars from our household in them.
Today we received a letter out of the blue from the managing company telling us that the parking control was going to change. They now are giving each house a permit that must be permanently assigned to one car via registration plate and stuck on windscreen as well as a visitor pass that requires a date written into it each time it is used and its valid for 24 hours from that date. The other main change is that the company managing the estate has told UKPC to only patrol between 7am and 7pm 7 days a week. So effectively our private road becomes a public car park after 7pm and overnight.
The visitor passes will have space for 30 entries of date and time – each valid for 24 h for any car. When this expires we have to pay £27.50 for another 30, which is absurd!
We have to apply for these new permits by the 15th June and then enforcement begins on 1st July.
This makes it harder for us to just leave the ///M out and swap it around with one of our other cars where needed as if we went away for more than one day we would lose the visitor bay or risk a parking ticket. Yes I acknowledge some people may see this as hogging a space but this is a valid use which I took into account when buying the property.
Can the property management company even be allowed to make such radical changes without any form of consultation prior from the residents (there is no residents committee)? Also very concerned about why the road is becoming free-for-all parking after 7pm every day whereas before it still needed parking permit 24/7. There are a number of rented student house shares within the road also and I expect it could just become free parking for them outside of these hours. The visitor permits which cost money to replace just sound dumb and a money-generating ploy on top of a fair bit of money I pay annually for maintenance of the estate.
May have been typing too fast out of frustration so if anything doesn't make sense let me know.
Thanks!
We live in a managed estate that consists of three roads. Parking is monitored by UKPC and managed by the company managing the estate. There have been parking issues for a while with people either using duplicated visitor passes to park in a visitor bay or just general vehicle abandonment (not that we have really seen much of this down our particular road).
The current parking setup is that all houses have a visitor parking permit that they can display in the window of their car when using a visitor bay (for any car), all other cars will receive parking fines if not displaying these in a bay and not parked on a private drive. We usually have the ///M sit in a visitor bay unless it is used, as the drive and garage have the other two cars from our household in them.
Today we received a letter out of the blue from the managing company telling us that the parking control was going to change. They now are giving each house a permit that must be permanently assigned to one car via registration plate and stuck on windscreen as well as a visitor pass that requires a date written into it each time it is used and its valid for 24 hours from that date. The other main change is that the company managing the estate has told UKPC to only patrol between 7am and 7pm 7 days a week. So effectively our private road becomes a public car park after 7pm and overnight.
The visitor passes will have space for 30 entries of date and time – each valid for 24 h for any car. When this expires we have to pay £27.50 for another 30, which is absurd!
We have to apply for these new permits by the 15th June and then enforcement begins on 1st July.
This makes it harder for us to just leave the ///M out and swap it around with one of our other cars where needed as if we went away for more than one day we would lose the visitor bay or risk a parking ticket. Yes I acknowledge some people may see this as hogging a space but this is a valid use which I took into account when buying the property.
Can the property management company even be allowed to make such radical changes without any form of consultation prior from the residents (there is no residents committee)? Also very concerned about why the road is becoming free-for-all parking after 7pm every day whereas before it still needed parking permit 24/7. There are a number of rented student house shares within the road also and I expect it could just become free parking for them outside of these hours. The visitor permits which cost money to replace just sound dumb and a money-generating ploy on top of a fair bit of money I pay annually for maintenance of the estate.
May have been typing too fast out of frustration so if anything doesn't make sense let me know.
Thanks!
so in that sense, I commend you for parking in the visitors bay, not on the grass!
. The most likely change is to extend the drive or sell the Zed which I umm and ahh about all the time as its not getting much use (maybe this parking situation is the push I need). I guess I just don't like the management company throwing out new rules without any discussion (feels like being at school). This is my first home so I don't have experience of management companies. I thought earlier about starting a residents association but have no idea how big a job that would be, anyone dabble in that sort of thing?