Purchase car park spot outside front door

CPTM

Hi all,

Sorry if this is not the correct place for this question. I live down a small cul de sac of old cottages. Does anyone know how to buy a car parking spot which is directly outside my front door? I can see online that other houses have the spot registered as their own but it was done by previous owners. Each of the houses have a little spot opposite their house but no one knows how they can be purchased.

Doop

Is this a private or public road? what county?

CPTM

Doop wrote: »

Is this a private or public road? what county?

Edit : Co Dublin
This is a public cul de sac. There's the front door of my house, a tiny public lane (single lane width), and then a spot opposite which has been associated with the house for over 100 years. I have 5 years in the house and a sworn declaration from the previous owner to say they used it for 22 years. Am I allowed to post the laneway in question here?

I appreciate any response because it's a showstopper for selling my house which I need to do in order to buy my next one which is going to be put back on the market Thursday.

godtabh

Never heard of such before. It is a public road any one can park there.

Doop

Its difficult to say, I know the area in question as it happens!

What does your solicitor say? ie whats included in the title deeds for the property?

I would suspect its a public road and although the residents put up signs etc I would guess they dont actually 'own' the space opposite their houses, more of general agreement that residents don't park outside each others houses. This is further highlighted by the fact that none of your neighbors know how to prove they own/purchased them.

I'm sure the city council could confirm if it is a public road.

You say the other houses have the spots 'registered' do you mean they have hung up signs saying its theirs or are you referring to an actual register?

CPTM

Doop wrote: »

Its difficult to say, I know the area in question as it happens!

What does your solicitor say? ie whats included in the title deeds for the property?

I would suspect its a public road and although the residents put up signs etc I would guess they dont actually 'own' the space opposite their houses, more of general agreement that residents don't park outside each others houses. This is further highlighted by the fact that none of your neighbors know how to prove they own/purchased them.

I'm sure the city council could confirm if it is a public road.

You say the other houses have the spots 'registered' do you mean they have hung up signs saying its theirs or are you referring to an actual register?

It's actually registered as being theirs on the land registry. My solicitor can see the red box around both the house and the parking spot opposite on the land registry website. But it's just for two houses.

My solicitor thinks that perhaps previous owners went through a squatters right type process (I forget the term she used) where basically because the parking spot has been used solely by the owners of the house for 35 years, the council allowed them to claim it on the land registry. However I'm not sure if this is the case.

These are old houses. Potentially 50 years ago there were options available to do this. Or who knows, a friend of a friend might have helped them register it way back in the day type thing.

CPTM

Would anyone have the phone number of an office in the council who could lookup the road to confirm whether it's entirely public, or how/why there are parking spots claimed by certain houses?

CPTM

Doop wrote: »

Its difficult to say, I know the area in question as it happens!

What does your solicitor say? ie whats included in the title deeds for the property?

The title deeds for my house shows the house only. For other houses, they show both

_Brian

I’d imagine these spaces were allocated when planning/deeds were done on the properties.

There is no such facility available at the moment.

CPTM

_Brian wrote: »

I’d imagine these spaces were allocated when planning/deeds were done on the properties.

There is no such facility available at the moment.

Ok.. Thanks for that