How to deter people from having their front gardens turned into parking

sarahg1969

If they hadn't converted their gardens to driveways for two vehicles, then presumably, they'd all have to park on the street, and there would still be parking problems? For more people.

TrickyWicky

Yes indeed there would sarah. What we have here is someone who just wants some eye candy because they probably don't work and just want something to keep them busy whilst watching the neighbourhoods business.

agrinnall

TrickyWicky wrote: »

Yes indeed there would sarah. What we have here is someone who just wants some eye candy because they probably don't work and just want something to keep them busy whilst watching the neighbourhoods business.

No it wouldn't, did you not read what the OP wrote in a later post, the properties have off road parking and double garages at the rear but they don't use them.

TrickyWicky

Yes but that is THEIR business. Not everyone finds it convenient to use rear parking and its down to them how they want to park their car on their own land. You can't go around demanding people turn their drives into gardens just to keep a someone else with nothing to do happy.

We have rear parking where we are but we don't use it and neither do our neighbours. It's just not as convenient as on street parking.

mttylad

With the high cost of purchasing a house IMO children are leaving it longer to get their own house, instead living with their parents longer. However when they are old enough they want their own vehicles which need somewhere to park.

This is one reason for the increase in people using their own land for parking, the parking being what they need more than a garden.
Having a dropped curb may prevent 1 car from parking on the road, removing the parking area may result in 3 cars needing a parking space on the road.

I do not have any off street parking, nor a garden I could turn into it. Both my wife & I have cars that we have to find parking spaces for, most of the neighbours are the same so I end up with quite a walk many days.
My son has just got a license and will be looking for transport soon, my daughters boyfriend has a car and they dwell in the attic so he needs to find a parking spot too.

Employment is also very hard to find so people are having to travel further while public transport is being reduced and priced too high making use of a car essential to working families.

So If I had a driveway where I could park these vehicles on my own land, no way in hell would you get me to turn it back into a garden.

Seek an alternative way of revitalising your high street shops.

Perhaps knock a few down to make way for a shoppers car park, or a shopkeepers car park.

As spock said - the needs of the many...

peter_the_piper

As Mttylad says but avoid at all costs a private parking company, its the quickest way to get back to square one.