Car parking

Gavamacavab · 02-12-2014 1:51pm #1

Hi,
We have just bought a house and are in the process of renovating before moving in. But our neighbour has left a disused car on the driveway and will not move it. What are my rights here and where can I go to get the car removed if the own continues to refuse to move it
?

the_syco · 02-12-2014 1:57pm

Ask them nicely to move it, but look into getting it towed. Find out from your other neighbours if this is usual behaviour or not.

corktina · 02-12-2014 2:48pm

If it was there when you bought the house, it is now yours. Call the scrappers.

ice.cube · 02-12-2014 3:08pm

Gavamacavab wrote:

Hi, We have just bought a house and are in the process of renovating before moving in. But our neighbour has left a disused car on the driveway and will not move it. What are my rights here and where can I go to get the car removed if the own continues to refuse to move it ?

Wow what a nice neighbour! If he is not going to move it then id have it towed. If it is going to cost you money to get it towed then id love to see if you could scrap it, although I guess you would need to be the owner of the vehicle. It's a strange situation to be in, I would love to hear of any more legal solutions.

biko · 02-12-2014 3:17pm

What a way to start ownership of a new house.

I need some clarifications
Is house in town or countryside?
Is the car blocking your driveway? On your actual property?

bazz26 · 02-12-2014 3:25pm

They sound like real classy neighbours to be moving in next door to. I'd hate to be having disputes like this when you have only moved in but there are some total prats out there that cannot be reasoned with in a civil manner so you need to be firm from day one or they will walk all over you from then on.

I'd ask them again and give them a reasonable deadline of a few days to a week, to have it removed or you will be forced to have it removed. After that I'd ring the council to tell them that there is an abandoned in your driveway.

Atlantic Dawn · 02-12-2014 3:32pm

Contact the seller of the house and/or your solicitor and tell them it wasn't part of the sale, surely this should have been sorted by your/their solicitor? The council will not tow it as it's not in a public place.

If it was me this is what I would do, be peaceful with an ar$hole neigbour to start with...

Contact the neighbour again, tell them you are ordering a skip and need it clear in 24 hours.
Give them 48 hours
Call the Gardaí and tell them it's blocking access to your driveway.

That's as sound as you can be with someone, otherwise they will walk all over you for the rest of your days there

bazz26 · 02-12-2014 3:52pm

Cannot see the purpose of contacting the seller would do if the sale is concluded at this stage. Should have been addressed prior to concluding the sale assuming the car was parked there at that time. But I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that the last owner moved out prior to the OP buying the house so the property was left unoccupied for a time and the guy next door decided to dump his car there later on.

joujoujou · 02-12-2014 4:05pm

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

[...] The council will not tow it as it's not in a public place.

[...]

Simple solution is: pull it to be in a public place and contact council.

Atlantic Dawn · 02-12-2014 4:08pm

joujoujou wrote: »

Simple solution is: pull it to be in a public place and contact council.

A couple of lads could lift it if it or the lazy option it could be jacked up and the back tyres lowered on to 2 biscuit tin covers it will slide out easy

corktina · 02-12-2014 4:08pm

bazz26 wrote: »

Cannot see the purpose of contacting the seller would do if the sale is concluded at this stage. Should have been addressed prior to concluding the sale assuming the car was parked there at that time. But I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that the last owner moved out prior to the OP buying the house so the property was left unoccupied for a time and the guy next door decided to dump his car there later on.

it would be the sellers job to ensure vacant possesion.

alias no.9 · 02-12-2014 4:27pm

Gavamacavab wrote: »

Hi,
We have just bought a house and are in the process of renovating before moving in. But our neighbour has left a disused car on the driveway and will not move it. What are my rights here and where can I go to get the car removed if the own continues to refuse to move it
?

Get an angle grinder, cut the roof off, fill it with any builders rubble etc... call the skip truck and have them come lift it.

Seriously: Give then a deadline in the order of a couple of days to remove it, if they don't, move it out onto the road and report it to the council as being untaxed.

Marcusm · 02-12-2014 4:55pm

corktina wrote: »

it would be the sellers job to ensure vacant possesion.

Indeed and the vendor is financially responsible for the removal of the car. Problem is that no one will remove it.

barryoneill50 · 02-12-2014 5:03pm

pick up a car for a few hundred euro and park it in his/her driveway...

Gavamacavab · 02-12-2014 6:08pm

OK well thanks guys, that clears it up. I will keep on trying a diplomatic solution as it would not be the best way to start life next to these people. But good to know I'd be within my rights to get it removed. Also thanks for the tips on how.

corktina · 02-12-2014 6:42pm

It doesn't really clear it up, there are loads of unanswered questions ...

slimjimmc · 02-12-2014 6:56pm

Marcusm wrote: »

Indeed and the vendor is financially responsible for the removal of the car. Problem is that no one will remove it.

Wouldn't that depend on the car being there at the time the contract was finalised.

GreeBo · 02-12-2014 6:58pm

First let the cops know there is a car dumped in your driveway that no one is claiming.
Then get a jack, some wood and roll the fecker out onto the road.
Whatever happens after that ain't your problem.

joujoujou · 02-12-2014 9:06pm

And let us know what happened.

bear1 · 02-12-2014 9:35pm

I have to ask, but was the car there when you were viewing the house?

Marcusm · 02-12-2014 9:36pm

slimjimmc wrote: »

Wouldn't that depend on the car being there at the time the contract was finalised.

Absolutely, on completion.

monkeysnapper · 02-12-2014 9:45pm

It's a tricky one, I think If I was in your shoes I'd ask neighbors to move car by a set date and thank them for their assistance in this matter.

If cars still there then get it moved yourself to a place as close to their drive as possible that doesn't cause a inconvenience to anybody els .

Moomat · 02-12-2014 9:53pm

Gavamacavab wrote: »

OK well thanks guys, that clears it up. I will keep on trying a diplomatic solution as it would not be the best way to start life next to these people. But good to know I'd be within my rights to get it removed. Also thanks for the tips on how.

I'd get proper legal advice if I were you. If your neighbour is the legal owner of the car then there may be issues surrounding your contact with it. Two wrongs don't make a right and all that.
I'd thread carefully, if he's pig ignorant enough to behave as you suggest then it wouldn't surprise me at all if he's devious enough to have a plan to screw you at his earliest opportunity.

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