Parking at the rear

Frozen_up_north

Check to see what terms and conditions are attached to the shared access area. Do you have to contribute each year towards repairs/de-weeding, etc?

I am fortunate in having a detached garage on my own plot with no communal access payments...

StevenMarks

I viewed a few properties like this and was put off because in a lot of cases the streets round the back where the garages were, were actually quite small with garages in close proximity to one another. And in some cases the street in front of the houses had double yellow lines.

oldskoo1

Thank you all

It' comforting to know that it isn't as big of an issue as i would have thought, in some cases quite preferential.

The point about upkeep is a good one.

The court yard in this case is big, plenty of space and only 3 garages and organised with plenty of space. The access road also forms access to about 4 other houses, it's an actual road.

Leading off the court yard is a walk way. So you could easily walk round to your front door, however the walk way is running adjacent to next door, so walking round you have to walk past a neighbours house, but you have the option.

Oh well, some positive comments, thanks all

Now to find another buyer for ours.

hazyjo

We live in something similar - as mentioned above, you'll probably pay a s/c and the garage will more than likely be leasehold.

We're an end of terrace of three townhouses, the 'road' (more of a gap) that leads round the back is next to the third house along. Not sure I'd like to be in that one with everyone driving past (there are flats out the back too).

We use our front door, but the other two use the back.

When we had a decorator in, it was very handy for him to park out the back and bring everything in through the back gate/garden. Our kitchen's at the back, so we quite like it.

Our 'gap' isn't lit. That's the only bit I don't like about it. If I'm home late in the car, I have to park at the back and walk round in the dark. But there are flats back there so those residents obviously do that all the time, and I presume there'll be a nosy neighbour having a nose to see whose car's just pulled up...

We really like the fact that we have double yellow lines outside our house and the cars are all hidden round the back. Nobody ever parks there or anywhere in our road in the section our house is in.

Jx

babymoo

Garage and parking at the back, i'd snap their hand off.

oldskoo1

I'm wondering if anyone bought a house with rear parking with the thought that it was an inconvenience but then realised it wasn't and grew to like it.

I've only ever lived in houses where you enter through the front door. It sounds odd to me to go in through the kitchen at the back of the house up the garden path.

I'm willing to go for this house but my mrs is struggling with the idea.

You can of course park out front but it will be on the (quiet) road.

orchid2010

Our car parking is a private drive at the back of our house with a gate to our garden. The only problem we had with this is that the doorway into the house from the back was patio doors which could only be locked and unlocked from inside the house. So someone had to lock the patio doors and go all the way around the house to get to our car's.

We quickly solved this problem by replacing the lock with one that could be unlocked from outside and I love it now.

Means that people i.e. door step callers/sellers cannot tell if we are home or not if we do not want to answer the door to them.

Strapped

Get the shopping delivered. Problem solved. You're welcome.

Seriously, it probably wouldn't be a deal-breaker for me, although it is a less secure arrangement than garage at the front (an issue for me as I store stuff, rather than a car, in mine).

oldskoo1

Thanks guys

Ironically we do have shopping delivered in our current house, that wont change.

The garden isn't too long, i guess if we end up there we will get used to going in through the back door which the current owners do. I can see the positives and i quite like cars so having it tucked away at the rear is a plus.

The double garage and parking is accessed from a side road and then into a courtyard where 2 other neighbours have the same arrangement. However it's spaced out in a horseshoe pattern so it's not row on row.

Perhaps its classed as a shared driveway but your land is clearly marked out with low walls diving spaces and it's pretty obvious whats yours.

poppysarah

Who pays for the communal lighting and it's upkeep?

What if there's an annoying parker?