Houses you can't park at the front.

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Annie1960 wrote: »

Is that all? From your fist post it sounded as though it was much further.

I suspect most people will be happy to walk 20 metres, it's really not that far.

My visitors have to walk more than 20 metres unless they are pretty expert parkers, but I still feel its a very reasonable distance indeed. So, I don't bother myself in the slightest about personal visitors, as they would have to be supremely lazy not to walk from main road to my place. My only concern is workmen with heavy equipment and deliveries to me of heavy goods, but I tend to feel "That's their problem and if they want to work at my place/deliver at my place then its up to them to find ways to lug anything heavy to my home". Not my problem.

rosyw

shop-to-drop wrote: »

Thanks for quick response. For us we would park at the end of our garden and walk up the garden average newbuild garden.

But for visitors the closest they can park is a house away but the walk is the full length of that house and it's garden and then half of this house to front door OH reckons about 15 to 20 m, I think it is a bit more.

Oh good grief! 15-20 m, have people forgotten how to actually WALK these days/! My (shared) driveway is 65 metres from entrance gate to my front door, it has a weight restriction so no large delivery vehicles can get to my house, has caused no problems at all. I have parking for 2 cars , any more and people have to park on the road and walk, again, no problem, maybe my family and friends are among the few who have retained the use of their legs! :rotfl:

StevenMarks

I discounted houses like the one in the OP as the backstreets in the ones I looked at were usually narrow and there were a lot of houses backing onto them.

marmitepotato

We have a house like this, it causes no problems whatsoever. Our garage is at the end of our back garden, as is all our neighbours. Delivery people usually ring before a big delivery and they always park at the back and deliver through the back door. As no one can park out the front due to a communal area and front gardens, it makes for very very peaceful living. No car doors slamming, no engines ticking over or revving, no early morning scraping of window screens in the winter. It's by far the quietest place we've ever lived.

getmore4less

shop-to-drop wrote: »

Sorry can't post a link as haven't learnt how to do it on ipad (call me lazy). The listing doesn't really show the outside much though so won't help. We have seen a few newbuild estates like this though. They seem to build houses facing communal land on the surround of the development it is one of those.

just post the rightmove property number

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marmitepotato wrote: »

We have a house like this, it causes no problems whatsoever. Our garage is at the end of our back garden, as is all our neighbours. Delivery people usually ring before a big delivery and they always park at the back and deliver through the back door. As no one can park out the front due to a communal area and front gardens, it makes for very very peaceful living. No car doors slamming, no engines ticking over or revving, no early morning scraping of window screens in the winter. It's by far the quietest place we've ever lived.

That is a plus point certainly though, in the case of my house, there is just one car that creates noise. One of the other houses here has a regular visitor who, for some reason, sits in their car running their engine for a couple of minutes or more before driving off, whilst I'm there mentally stating "Either shut the darn engine off or drive off, one or the other" and feeling annoyed about it. With the exception of that one person, then I could say the same.

nearlyrich

We have no access at the front, we never get cold callers, trick or treat etc so that's a bonus.


The back garden was converted to 3 parking spaces a long time ago and we sometimes have to advise lost delivery drives and taxis how to get here. I don't mind coming in through the back door it makes me keep the kitchen tidy.


We have been here over 20 years and I plan to be here forver.