There is no standard way of marking off private land adjacent to road space. Your father’s house may have had a line as a local reference but was probably an informal thing or was a tarmac joint (as mcb said) where the council stopped the road maintenance.against the private bays. If yours are private spaces then they will probably be defined in the property deeds although being a block of flats you need to look at the freehold deed if it’s not in any paperwork you hold.

Alternatively if there is an issue the council may advise on whether these are private or not. Or have a word with the residents who have been there longest and who may know the background.

Edited by catsdad on 03/12/2021 at 15:49

Here are some photos. I'm not sure if i am allowed to post links. There is no tarmac. They are like small slabs of concrete flush with the road.

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Edited by clive jackson on 03/12/2021 at 16:17

My road has 3 small residents' car parks. Each car park is divided into a number of bays (2 per house). The markings on the tarmac have long since worn away, but the title deeds has a map which shows which house owns which spaces by annotating them with the same plot numbers as the house plots. Not every house in the road has spaces in the car parks, but some of their occupants either don't know that, or don't care and park there anyway. The road itself was adopted by the council, but the car parks remain private property.

Edited by RichT54 on 03/12/2021 at 21:38