Esate Living, is it normal for cars to park...

becominganobsessivesaver

This was one of our main considerations when we bought our house. I would hate having to look out of my lounge at someone's car right outside. We viewed two houses on different estates on the same afternoon. The first had loads of cars parked on the street and it was only 3pm, the second was the end of a cul de sac, with a large front garden and no road in front, only our double driveway. We see so many car games going on in the limited street parking from the houses with only a single driveway, I just can't understand why they don't plan sufficient parking!

Just_Keep_Swimming

Totally normal. OH recently moved to a new-build estate, and each house/flat has one designated parking space. Tough luck for anyone with more cars, or visitors. So I have to park half-on the pavement (road's not wide enough), sometimes directly in front of someone's front garden path. I felt bad the first few times, but now there's usually someone else in that spot anyway, so I've found an alternative, next to someone's house instead. Until estates start allowing for an over-flow car-park, then it's a bit of a free-for-all, I'm afraid.

fc123

I know several people who live in streets where there is no off road parking and probably twice as many cars needing a space as there are spaces. It's a bun fight most of the time.

MIL wouldn't drive anywhere after 5pm as they would 'lose' their space until 10 am the next day when the parking controls kicked in. It quite restricted their lives as they would never go out to anything social at all because when they came home, they couldn't park near their house.

RedfordML

Just_Keep_Swimming wrote: »

Totally normal. OH recently moved to a new-build estate, and each house/flat has one designated parking space. Tough luck for anyone with more cars, or visitors. So I have to park half-on the pavement (road's not wide enough), sometimes directly in front of someone's front garden path. I felt bad the first few times, but now there's usually someone else in that spot anyway, so I've found an alternative, next to someone's house instead. Until estates start allowing for an over-flow car-park, then it's a bit of a free-for-all, I'm afraid.

This pretty much is an example of our situation.

A boyfriend of a neighbour parks his car outside my neighbours house every evening. The house he visits is about 6-8 doors down.

RedfordML

skivenov wrote: »

My neighbour's car is outside my house now, as it is most nights, because he's got two and no driveway. We've got three cars here tonight, so two are on the drive, the other is parked down the road.

So yeah, I be chilled. :cool:

See that would really frustrate me, not only does a neighbour park his car outside your door, there is no space for your own car.

Dog eat dog it seems.

Good to see if has zero effect on you, I need to develop your rellaxed approach to it all.

Interesting to hear others experiences.

arbroath_lass

RedfordML wrote: »

Its just frustrating to open your front door and have one possibly two cars parked directly outside?

My question was, is this normal on estates, having never lived on one before?

Totally normal, I can't imagine there would be many roads in town where there weren't cars parked outside your house. You must have seen what the parking was like before you moved in?

Do you have any front garden? Plant large shrubs and you'll not see the cars.

RedfordML

Viewed twice zero cars, different days/times

ruggedtoast

We live on the edge of an estate so our house is parallel to the road. Then there are a lot of houses that have no front road access, only a footpath leading down the side of our house and road access to the rear of their property.

One of the houses owns two vehicles that they have always (since before we moved in) insisted on parking right outside our house, so they can get out and walk directly down the footpath. They could park ten feet further up and not be outside anyone's house.

It really annoyed the hell out of me for a while and I used to make a point of moving my car in front of my house as soon as one of them moved.

Then over time it just stopped bothering me. They're perfectly nice in person and go through phases of leaving a gap in the middle for me to awkwardly parallel park in. Its a public road after all. One day we will get around to putting a driveway in.

phoebe1989seb

DRP wrote: »

We would all like a view of rolling hills but when you live in an average house in an average town/city we have to compromise quite a bit

We live in a rural location and have views of rolling hills front and back, but still have neighbours' vehicles parked directly outside our village house We have a very deep pavement frontage outside our house with bollards to prevent motorists parking right on the pavement, although a *blind eye* is turned at parking partially on the kerb as there is a severe lack of off road space to park.

We're fortunate in that we personally have driveway parking for two cars (there was space for eight-ten originally but we incorporated the majority into a terraced area with veggie beds ), but most of our neighbours in the village have no off road parking. One of them has three vehicles (he did have a motorbike too but sold it recently) and two are always parked outside our house which is wide enough for four/five cars to park in front of.

When his GF comes at weekends she parks our there too, yet they rarely park any of the four vehicles (two vans, two cars) outside his house which admittedly does have narrower pavements......I've even noticed him swapping his two vans over as he's so anal about parking them in the same spot each time! Trouble is, he's a nice guy otherwise and has done us a few favours - helping to lift/shift stuff - so we wouldn't want to say anything.......

As we've been doing a ton of building work we've had skips continually on the drive so have been parking our one car in front of our own house - tbh, I sympathise with the OP and I'm tempted to carry on parking there when our building work is completed as I don't fancy matey-boy parking his whole fleet out there and I'm fed up with looking out onto his van which he leaves there day & night :mad:

Lord_Baltimore

Everyone is pretty much agreed that we don't own the road and people can park outside our houses if they want to.

But that doesn't stop it from being irritating especially if it's a largish van and the very little 'view' that you have is reduced to a big, white expanse.

I would report anyone that parks on the pavement and make it my routine to park outside my own house even if I had a drive/garage. I would also complain if my drive/garage was obstructed.

This is simply exercising my right to park where I like too. There should be rules about this sort of thing but as there aren't, you have to impose your will in other ways.

Parking a car regularly outside someone else's house is ignorant imo.