Parking and vehicles (section 18)

18.1.  You and any members of your household and/or visitors to your property must only park on either the road, in a designated parking area or on the driveway to the property, subject to compliance with the other terms of this Tenancy Agreement.

18.2.  You and any members of your household and/or visitors to your property must park with consideration to other road users, your neighbours and pedestrians and you must not cause a nuisance or annoyance by parking vehicles inconsiderately.

18.3.  You and any members of your household and/or visitors must not park in a manner that causes an obstruction and/or blocks a right of access to anyone. This includes but is not limited to obstructing access to/parking on garage forecourts, footpaths, driveways, refuse stores and grounds maintenance access points.

18.4.  You and any members of your household and/or visitors must not park on yellow hatched areas at any time.

18.5.  You and any members of your household and/or visitors must not park or drive a vehicle on any Council owned land that is a path, verge, pavement, grass verge or grassed open space. This also applies to quad bikes, motorbikes, mopeds, electric or motorised bikes or scooters and similar modes of transport.

18.6.  You must obtain the Council’s written permission before you park a boat, van, caravan, bus, coach, horse box, motor home, trailer, lorry or commercial vehicle or similar vehicle at the property or on land that the Council own or control.

18.7.  You and any members of your household and/or visitors to your property must not park any boat, van, caravan, bus, coach, horse box, motor home, trailer, lorry or commercial vehicle or similar vehicle in your garden without a properly constructed hard standing driveway with a dropped kerb.

18.8.  If, within the locality of your property there are car parking spaces with designated electric car charging points, you and any members of your household and/or visitors must only use these spaces if you have an electric car and are using this space solely for the purpose of charging the car

18.9.  You must obtain written permission from Housing before you build a hard-standing driveway.

18.10. If there is a requirement for you to have a dropped kerb you will also need to get written permission from Highways and you will have to get Planning permission and Building Regulations approval if appropriate.

18.11. All vehicles parked on the road and/or designated parking area and/or at your property, by you, any members of your household and/or visitors to your property must be in a roadworthy condition, taxed, MOT’d and insured.

18.12. You, any members of your household and/or visitors to your property must not leave any vehicles that are in a dilapidated and unroadworthy condition on any road, designated parking area and any other land that the Council own or control in the locality of the property.

18.13. You must not park SORN (Statutory Off Road Notification) vehicles on the Council’s land except in your own drive/garden if you have obtained the Council’s prior written permission for this. Permission will only be granted for a maximum period of 12 months and will only be granted if the vehicle is in a roadworthy condition.

18.14. If your property has a designated residents’ parking area, only you and/or members of your household and/or your legitimate visitors may park in that designated parking area.

18.15. You agree that the Council can remove vehicles (including car, van, boat, caravan, motor home, trailer or commercial vehicle) belonging to you and/or members of your household and/or visitors to your property from land owned or controlled by the Council, in the following circumstances:

a)       Where parked vehicles are causing an obstruction and/or hindrance to emergency vehicles; Council officers and contractors and/or people living in the locality;
b)       Where parked vehicles appear abandoned and/or dilapidated and/or not in a road worthy condition

18.16. In these circumstances, the Council will use its best endeavours to notify the owner of the vehicle /or affix a notice onto the vehicle setting out its intention to remove the vehicle if it is not removed from land owned or controlled by the Council.

18.17. You agree that if the Council removes a vehicle belonging to you and/or members of your household and/or visitors to your property in accordance with the above term, the Council can re-charge you for the costs incurred in removing the vehicle and any associated costs.

18.18. You agree that the Council can re-charge you for any costs it incurs in repairing any damage caused from a vehicle (including car, van, boat, caravan, motor home, trailer or commercial vehicle) which is owned by you, a member of your household and/or visitor.

18.19. You must not carry out repairs and/or alterations to any vehicle (including car, van, boat, caravan, motor home, trailer or commercial vehicle) other than minor routine servicing, within the boundary of the property including gardens and drives and/or shared spaces and/or designated parking areas and/or the locality of the property.