New build flat with no permanent parking

Marvel1

I I was looking to buy, I would want to know what parking is like.

Mickygg wrote: »

Without doubt this would be a dealbreaker for me.

As you say both options are only for 10 years. £10k to rent a garage or a free space depending on what is available and also free knocks and damage to your car which is bound to happen in a station car park.

Lets not forget the car insurance quote.

Dan-Dan

missbiggles1 wrote: »

Discouraging car use in city centres is an admirable thing and to be encouraged.

How naive..............

oli_ro

Dan-Dan wrote: »

How naive..............

I kind of agree here. I am cycling fanatic and use bike over any other transport when possible. I am in London and often considered how can we manage without a car.
For me it is not very practical because:
- when you want to get out of London for day trips, train ticket prices are hugely expensive over cost of car transport.
- if you have chores/errands to run and don't live just near a station, things take extra-time and even if you are close, transport cost is expensive. (imagine how would you manage taking stuff to the local recycling centre)
- proper cycling infrastructure is missing. in loads of places, cycling with kids is taking your life in your own hands.
- etc...

Wishing London would get comparable cycling infrastructure with Holland/Denmark and I will be the first to ditch the car and add a cargo bike to my collection.

Elfbert

I live in a flat which has no parking - well, there's a garage, with a few spaces, but it's so extortionately expensive very few people buy a space in it. It was built as a car-free development.

However, I work close by and can leave my partner's car in our work car park, which is a short walk from home. So the lack of car parking isn't a problem, and excellent bike storage means my bike is safe (it's how I get around). My partner generally gets the tube to his various worksites, and just uses the car for certain long-distance trips and weekends away.

We have toyed with the idea of getting rid of the car, but it's so useful for weekends/holidays!

gfplux

Car free developments are an excellent idea. Those who buy them have to be non car people.

prowla

...very practical.

TBagpuss

do the developers own the garages? if so, then you could try to negotiate to buy, rather than rent, the garage, or for a longer lease.

I am sure that it will be harder to sell a flat with no parking, than one with parking, when the time comes. But presumably you, and any future buyer, would be paying less than you would pay for an equivalent flat with parking.

If parking is already tight, then the premium people will pay for allocated parking will be high.

It would be a deal breaker for me, personally. After 18 years of living in properties with no off road or allocated parking, I didn't look at anything which didn't have parking. And I lived in areas where parking wasn't horrendous.

movilogo

If you have a car and there is no allocated parking you, then consider whether you'd like the buy the property in the first place.

People often under estimate the stress of not having a fixed place to park in one's own house.

missbiggles1

oli_ro wrote: »

I kind of agree here. I am cycling fanatic and use bike over any other transport when possible. I am in London and often considered how can we manage without a car.
For me it is not very practical because:
- when you want to get out of London for day trips, train ticket prices are hugely expensive over cost of car transport.
- if you have chores/errands to run and don't live just near a station, things take extra-time and even if you are close, transport cost is expensive. (imagine how would you manage taking stuff to the local recycling centre)
- proper cycling infrastructure is missing. in loads of places, cycling with kids is taking your life in your own hands.
- etc...

Wishing London would get comparable cycling infrastructure with Holland/Denmark and I will be the first to ditch the car and add a cargo bike to my collection.

Choosing not to run a car doesn't mean using a bike instead.

You can pay for an awful lot of taxis and car hire out of what you save from not running a car, particularly if you would normally run a quite expensive car.

Unfortunately, many people see taxis amd car hire as luxuries whilst viewing car ownership as essential spending.

SailorSam

I've thought a few times about downsizing and getting a flat. I think the time i'll do it would be when i was told i can't drive any more. But even then i'd want my flat to have a reserved parking space just for friends and visitors to leave their car.