New home owner (Parking dispute)

Joshuaa25

No, you need to take your self to another part of the forum nobody cares about your pointless post it was a serious question I appreciate the responses except idiotic ones like yours


Thanks everyone going to speak to the council tomorrow we're in the process of buying a part of our back garden so I may see what they say. I do want a drive put in but it doesn't make me confident of spending g £3,000+ on something people can block as we only have 1 car. If I buy a second car (Taxed and Mot'd) and leave it on the drive then I could get people moved?

I really don't mind people parking there be probably come about as selfish but I don't like the fact I can't park outside my own house when I've finished work.

There's a stump from a tree that's been removed I may try and get that remove that and gravel then there's more then enough space for 2 cars.

Cakeguts

Lots of people can't park outside their own house. Unless you have private off road parking you can't expect to park where you want to on a public road.

padington

It might explain why your house has been sold three times in ten years.

Have you considered cycling ?

Smartsaver7

Cakeguts wrote: »

Lots of people can't park outside their own house. Unless you have private off road parking you can't expect to park where you want to on a public road.

I had all this grief with my last two houses , so the main criteria for this one was a large off road driveway , and dropped kerb , I am also lucky enough to be opposite a rarely used free car park.

The other thing I made sure of was visiting the road on a few evenings before I bought the house to check on noise , had the OP sat up nearby before offering on the house the parking problems may have been apparent.

LydiaJ

If you put in a drive I think it's very unlikely that anyone will park across it even when there isn't anything parked on it. Putting in a drive certainly sounds like the best strategy to me.

A while ago I lived on a street where each house had a drive with space for one car only, and there was hardly any on-street parking. Lots of the households had more than one car, so there was always competition for the few on-street spaces. Nobody blocked anybody else's drive, though, whether there was anything parked on it at the time or not.

Joshuaa25

It seems frustrating because we're on this one way U street, if it was a normal street I would think right that's absolutely fine but when someone parks and blocks the space outside my house I have to park on another road on a grass verge you would just think people had some basic manners, I really don't care when I'm at work or out I would love to be able to come home and be able to park there. It's enough space for 2 if people park closer to the pole but they park bang in the middle looks like i need a drive.

Kim_kim

Joshuaa25 wrote: »

It seems frustrating because we're on this one way U street, if it was a normal street I would think right that's absolutely fine but when someone parks and blocks the space outside my house I have to park on another road on a grass verge you would just think people had some basic manners, I really don't care when I'm at work or out I would love to be able to come home and be able to park there. It's enough space for 2 if people park closer to the pole but they park bang in the middle looks like i need a drive.

Get a drive :-)
I have space for 5 cars on mine :-) it's pure heaven :-)

Jamiesmum

Hire a skip dig up the grass put some sheeting down and a load of gravel and there is your drive way for way under 3k. You can get it paved some other time.

Can't stop people parking there until then, unfortunately. Everyone in my street bar 2/3 houses have drive ways. I don't (it's on my list to do) and it can be very frustrating when someone parks outside my house as I have to park in a different street as everyones got drive ways. The odd few spots I could park are usually filled.

Drives me nuts but can't do nothing about it.

Joshuaa25

I don't have 5 cars so wouldn't need the space although our front garden is split into 2 parts we have a big side but which is where I would get it done I think.


The gravel isn't a bad idea but I've been told you need planning permission and something to do with drains because the water will be flowing into the council drains? Not sure if anybof that's true like I say this is my first house lived with my dad before this. Would the gravel not become water logged?

chris_m

Joshuaa25 wrote: »

The gravel isn't a bad idea but I've been told you need planning permission and something to do with drains because the water will be flowing into the council drains? Not sure if anybof that's true like I say this is my first house lived with my dad before this. Would the gravel not become water logged?

PP may be required depending on your location but as to drainage, if the gravel is on top of a permeable weed-barrier membrane, the water should soak away into the soil as it does now and neither go into the drains nor get waterlogged.