Anyone else live on a new(ish) estate and...

bouicca21

Well I'm not on a newish estate, but I'm close to a station where it costs a fortune to park, so guess what, they park on my road. Most of the properties, including my little block of flats, have some off street parking, but not enough. So I am seriously considering whether it is worth starting a campaign for residents' parking permits.

vivatifosi

On new estates you tend to have a mix of...

A) adopted highway (which may not yet be adopted if it's very new). Anyone can park here if their vehicle is road legal, not SORNed and its not a huge commercial vehicle that has restrictions.

residents parking, generally run by a management company, who may or may not try to uphold rules, such as no commercial vehicles, or only vehicles belonging to owners.

C) parking spaces that belong to a particular house and are included in the deeds.

Part of the problem (where I live at least) is that there is no easy distinction to make between the three. Parking here is not a big issue, but if it is, it may be worth seeing if residents parking signs can be put up. Residents will probably still be able to work though. There's nothing that you can do about that though, short of buying different house with a front garden AND its own parking... not that easy to find.

plumfin

We moved onto a 15 year old estate 8 months ago, with a drive with enough space for 2 cars at a squeeze but talking to the neighbours who can't park both cars on their drive as it is too small, they said the original plan was for 2 cars, but the developer decided to fit in an extra house instead, making the drives smaller. Sounds bizarre!

Actually just wanted to add - we were on holiday last week and told them they can use our drive. They just left a thank you card for it - it must be more of an issue than I had thought as it did us a favour having a car on the drive while we were away.

Davesnave

plumfin wrote: »

talking to the neighbours who can't park both cars on their drive as it is too small, they said the original plan was for 2 cars, but the developer decided to fit in an extra house instead, making the drives smaller. Sounds bizarre!.

Actually it sounds pretty normal behaviour for most developers.

Schemes start off with particular intentions, be it for parking or a nice green space, and then, suddenly, an extra house or two goes in under amendment.

Jagraf

RedfordML wrote: »

and have a row of cars outside you're front door, none belonging to you?

I know I DONT OWN THE ROAD however this does not take away the frustration of cars outside my house, none of which I own.

What makes it worse it often people who don't live on the estate...

Rant over, anyone else faced with this on a daily basis??

I live in an old house on a main road which has become busier with traffic because of the new estate that has been built in the village ....

The estate used to be countryside, now everyone parks their house on it :cool:

Running_Horse

Mostly it is councils who dictate parking provision on new estates. They allowed one round here with restricted parking, then cut the subsidy to the evening bus service.

SailorSam

I'm not on a new estate but i'm near a hospital and when they built a multi carpark there and started charging, all the surrounding roads got cars parking on them. I don't blame them i'd do the same, especially staff who had to pay every day. Anyway the Council put up signs and we were all issued 2 permits.Every so often the wardens come around. I let neighbours and builders park on my path if i'm not using it.

benjus

Anyone who genuinely has problems parking near their home because they do not have off-street parking and the on-street spaces are frequently taken by non-residents can ask the local council to implement a residents only parking zone.

Of course, you'll probably have to pay for the permit to cover the costs of enforcing the restrictions, and every time you have a visitor you'll have to get a visitor permit, which you may have to pay for as well. And the council will probably put up the cost every time they are short of cash (which is always at the moment) - at the place I lived a couple of years ago the cost of a resident permit doubled (£60 to £120) from one year to the next.

But at least you'll only be competing with other residents for the parking spaces...

Bantex_2

I may not be nice or legal, but keying really does dissuade people from parking outside your house.

System

Bantex wrote: »

I may not be nice or legal, but keying really does dissuade people from parking outside your house.

Neither is kicking the crap out of somebody who does it but it is so satisfying.