Who’s responsible for guttering that damages a car?

This topic spun off out of another discussion about reduced size of a car space.  It is now taking over from the original discussion so I have moved it to here.

The gist of it was that Keep Calm was forced to park his car just outside his parking space and it was subsequently damaged by falling guttering – JimmyT

@Keep Calm said:
The insurance wanted me to prove negligence. 

The pipes seem to be on the original plans. 

Anyone know where i can get a copy of old standards?

Was it a storm that brought the gutter down? That might limit the OC’s liability.

But if it was due to lack of maintenance, that would generally be considered as negligent.

To note that the current parking space standard (AS2890.1-2004) is not necessarily exactly adopted by all states and councils, even today.  I’d try asking council for the standard that existed at the time.