Car parking

[7ismynumber]

I live down a little tarmac lane that ends in a footpath. There is no actual parking next to the houses but everyone parks on a strip of land that runs alongside the lane. It's a rough scrap of land just big enough to park four cars . Ive parked there for fifteen years and people before have parked there for more years than me. Recently this land was bought by a fellow who put in plans to build a house at the top where there is a bit more room. These plans have been refused twice. So he gets in a mood and says that he is taking away our parking and puts a fence up. Now this fence not only stops us from parking but it stops vehicles turning round like the bin lorry etc. It makes the lane even more narrow. Can he do this? Do we have a say in this?

[bednobs]

if it is his land, surely he can dictate what is done on it? The bin lorry can reverse - it's not up to you to worry about how they will access your bins, its up to them. Do you have a front garden? If you do, can you imagine how you'd feel if people started parking on it, and turning the bin lorry round on it?

[paraffin]

Unfortunately, from what you say, it seems like you had 15 years of parking convenience, that has now been taken away and you're feeling aggrieved?

And it seems as though the bin lorry has also taken advantage of the situation for years by turning around on land which someone has now purchased?

The trouble is that, assuming that your little tarmac lane is a public highway, then none of you has a God given right to park on it just because you live nearby - you may own your house but not the road - fact. But I realise that 99% of people do not want to walk the proverbial length of themselves after parking their cars - that's human nature - but it doesn't mean that you have an entitlement to it - fact.

Unless you all can come to some kind of agreement with the owner of the land, it seems to me that you will have to find elsewhere to park.