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

RedfordML

Lord_Baltimore wrote: »

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.

If I was to report any cars parked on the pavement, I would be reporting the whole estate lol!! The difference is 90% are parking on the pavement outisde there own house.

To be fair, as pointed about by plenty and I agree, I own the house not the road, fair enough.

Having relected on it over the last 12-24hrs and coming back to an empty road, I agree there are bigger and more important things to worry about.

Good to hear peoples stories and it sounds extremely common.

HB58

Parking on the pavement outside your own house still makes things very difficult for people with buggies or wheelchairs, or those who are visually impaired.

AndyGuil

Parking on the pavement is only illegal in London. If the car is completely blocking a pavement you can complain though.

seven-day-weekend

I live in a street of mainly Victorian houses with no drive or garage. We just park where we can find a space and quite often that is not in front of my house and could be quite a way down the street. Which of course means that I am parking outside someone else's house because someone has parked in front of mine.

That's just life with cars, when my house was built in 1857 they would not have had this problem

argomatt

Unfortunately the problem is set to get worse, as it is planning policy to provide inadequate parking for newbuilds in urban areas as a tool to discourage car use / ownership and force people back to public transport / walking.

Slinky

We had building work done on our house a few years back, so I parked one of our cars on the verge (there is no pavement) outside my Dad's house in the next street where everybody has big drives and there's never anything parked on the road. One of his neighbours from about 4 doors down stuck a note through his door 'Does your daughter have to park her car outside your house?' Cheeky mare, like it was anything to do with her. And in his case, since its a private road, yes he does own part of the street!

He ignored it.

janiebquick

pinkteapot wrote: »

This is one thing I hate about many new-build estates now. Cramming in 4-bed town-houses which are often 2-car households, and giving them one designated parking bay each.

It's not just new estates. I live in a village that's one hour from London by fast train. so we attract more than our fair share of city types who need a four by four just to go and buy a pint of milk from the co-op. Like most of the streets, the one I live on is narrow, with very limited off street parking, so everyone has to share what parking there is. Generally it works well but I can't help thinking that families with five cars (two of them Jaguars) should think twice before buying a small terraced house without even on-street parking.

RedfordML

HB58 wrote: »

Parking on the pavement outside your own house still makes things very difficult for people with buggies or wheelchairs, or those who are visually impaired.

Exactly my point of my OP.

Soot2006

Everyone parks everywhere on my estate ... Except for in front of my house. I have a 3.5t long wheel base, tall and ugly truck ... so as nobody wants it in front of their house, there's an unspoken agreement that the space in front of mine stays available for me to put it back haha ...

DRP

argomatt wrote: »

Unfortunately the problem is set to get worse, as it is planning policy to provide inadequate parking for newbuilds in urban areas as a tool to discourage car use / ownership and force people back to public transport / walking.

I would be more than happy with this kind of policy if councils also provided an incentive such as cheaper, better public transport.

In my experience politicians are unable to follow through with the most important part of any congestion initiative (whilst the glide by in their jags)...