Cars been parked in our estate

oulu

There is a car lot close to our estate and the owner seems to be parking cars in our estate ,he has parked as much as 10 on one day, is this legal ,do I call the guards or who?

cormie

Nothing wrong with that, as long as they are parked where there are no yellow lines, on the public road (i.e. not in somebodies driveway), more than 5 metres away froma junction/corner and with up to date tax and insurance it's ok.

Duckjob

there is a common misconception among people that they can lay claim to the roadside outside their houses as their own. They can't.

Leaving aside moral/ethical opinions on the matter, he has as much right as you to park as many cars as he wishes, as long as they are all legal parks. That is of course assuming the roads of the estate are classified as public roads.

dajaffa

If the problem is ongoing you can contact the council and make the area disc parking, (residents would get discs, others would have to buy them...).

Generally if the residents agree this can be done without much fuss. If the residents didn't agree to this though there's nout you can do once they're legally parked with tx inc etc

Sparky

We have this problem at the moment.
Since our small road is the only road within 2 sq miles without disc parking, every car gets parked on it while the owner gets the bus into work.
Personally I have no problem with this, as it's during the day and I do not be around. But as of recent most cars are not gone untill 7-8 every night, leaving residents like myself without a parking space.
I always knew that you cannot claim to a patch of road outside your house, but one day all 17 out of 32 residents had no parking space.

We are in the process of getting in disc parking as with the current suitation our road is like honey to the bees.

Zebra3

cormie wrote:

Nothing wrong with that, as long as they are parked where there are no yellow lines, on the public road (i.e. not in somebodies driveway), more than 5 metres away froma junction/corner and with up to date tax and insurance it's ok.

Does he not need a permit if the cars are there for trading?

theTinker

U could try some of those no parking signs people put up on thier gates. Most people obey it because of the red background i think. Its prolly illegal but I've never heard of anyone in trouble because of it. That would really piss me off if somebody used my street as a car lot.

cormie

Zebra3 wrote:

Does he not need a permit if the cars are there for trading?

Not if they are legally parked on a public road. If they are for trading, there may be a chance they have no tax disc in them, thus making it against the law for them to be parked there.

Naked Lepper

i live in royal canal park in ashtown, its a big new apt development. there is this car outside my apartment which has been there for over 2 years, it has flat wheels etc

is there anytihng i can do as its obviously been dumped.

CLADA

Report it to Gardai before contacting local authority who will remove it.

ircoha

Zebra3 wrote:

Does he not need a permit if the cars are there for trading?

just watch out for the green licence plate which allows them drive the cars without a tax disc, but parked on the road with no disc is in theory., not permitted.

I am aware of an estate who an issue similair to the car trader one where the cars were parked at nite.
The people "exhausted" all possibilities with some expanded foam. It solved the problem.

irlrobins

CLADA wrote:

Report it to Gardai before contacting local authority who will remove it.

And remove the plates off it.

I rang the Guards about a van that I presumed was stolen and dumped. It had been sitting in the same spot for a week and when I tried the door it was unlocked.

Anyway rang the Guards to report it. They said they couldn't do anything legally and that the council won't touch it as long as it has plates on it. It was only when I said I believed it had been stolen rather than abandoned that he said he'd get someone to look at it.

So if you remove the plates the council might be more likely to get involved.