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I'd be surprised if the house had on street parking for one car that you could reliably call your own - it's a street, a free for all presumably? You could very easily come home to find a neighbours visitor parked there. Councils will often charge an annual fee for using their car park as your own but still won't allocate you a personal space.
I think you need to give up on this one as a non starter and put 'driveway for 2 cars' top of your list even if that means moving a bit further out of town or to a smaller house. Some will say it's a daft thing to be so bothered about but I know when I bought a house it was top of my list. I just know I couldn't sleep at night worrying about my precious car on a street somewhere, or deal with the stress of coming home every night and not knowing how far from my front door I may have to park, and not being able to wash and hoover my car properly. But that's my problem and so I bought the right house to suit my needs.0 -
I'd be surprised if the house had on street parking for one car that you could reliably call your own - it's a street, a free for all presumably? You could very easily come home to find a neighbours visitor parked there. Councils will often charge an annual fee for using their car park as your own but still won't allocate you a personal space.
I think you need to give up on this one as a non starter and put 'driveway for 2 cars' top of your list even if that means moving a bit further out of town or to a smaller house. Some will say it's a daft thing to be so bothered about but I know when I bought a house it was top of my list. I just know I couldn't sleep at night worrying about my precious car on a street somewhere, or deal with the stress of coming home every night and not knowing how far from my front door I may have to park, and not being able to wash and hoover my car properly. But that's my problem and so I bought the right house to suit my needs.
This times a hundred. Not to mention if you had young children / or had done the weekly food shop / it was raining heavily and you have to walk a fair distance etc.
Don't forget that all it takes is for a new set of neighbours to move in and if they have 3 or 4 cars between them and there are no allocated spaces, that means it's a free for all........
The amount of houses I've viewed which would have been perfect in every other way - except there was no driveway or able to get one put in is crazy. But if it's a non-negotiable need, then you just have to keep searching.
Can the property have a driveway put in?0 -
The fact that the on-street parking is (almost) full suggests they'd be unlikely to get consent for a driveway, even if that were otherwise feasible.ExNicotineQueen wrote: »Can the property have a driveway put in?0 -
OP, there is no right to parking, so the only way you can guarantee parking is if you buy a house with it's own off-street parking, or if you buy or rent a separate garage or parking space.
So if this is a priority for you, then you probably need to look for a different property which has its own parking.
The situation is not likely to change for the better so the issue is whether you still want the house without parking, and knowing that you may not always be able to park outside or near. *and if the council car park is a pay and display, look into whether they sell season tickets and what they cost, and if it isn't, bear in mind that it might become one, or that the site may be sold for development in future.All posts are my personal opinion, not formal advice Always get proper, professional advice (particularly about anything legal!)0 -
The number of stories I have heard from people who have fallen out with neighbors over street parking. Lots of families have more than one car now, sometimes three or four if the kids are still living at home, so it can be really difficult to find parking on the street. A driveway is absolute number one on my list of "non-negotiables" when I buy my future house (right now I have a flat with an allocated space). Seriously consider whether you want this house, because a lot of buyers will get put off in the future because it doesn't have allocated parking0
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If parking bothers you in the slightest, then NEVER buy a property without sufficient allocated parking.
Unless you own a parking space, then you have NO right to park a car.
And don't forget that even if there is street parking, that might not always be the case.
In some cities where people park on the pavements on both sides of the street, then councils could easily ban this and half the amount of parking.Should've = Should HAVE (not 'of')
Would've = Would HAVE (not 'of')
No, I am not perfect, but yes I do judge people on their use of basic English language. If you didn't know the above, then learn it! (If English is your second language, then you are forgiven!)0 -
You have 2 issues:
1. You don't have a parking space for 1 car outside the house, anyone can park there.7
2. The unofficial car park can be taken away anytime.
Not somewhere I would buy, I would buy a house with a shower and no bath (even if no room to buy one) but parking is number 1 priority.0 -
We have a terraced house (being all we could afford in our desired area) and we searched for ages to find one which had a private parking facility around the back. Would not have bought one that didn't, relying on street parking is just a recipe for stress in my opinion. Who really wants to be messing about doing a parallel park into a space 100 yards from your front door in the pouring rain after a bad day at work and/or with a load of shopping bags to carry. You'll also waste time in your life getting worked up over neighbours parking in 'your spot'.
OP - keep looking.0 -
I wouldn't get past first look if a house didn't have 2 parking spaces. My first house didn't and it was a nightmareNo.79 save £12k in 2020. Total end May £11610
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paddyandstumpy wrote: »No, unless you apply for a disabled space.And even disabled spaces aren't personal, they can be occupied by anybody displaying a blue badge.
Very rarely some Councils might be persuaded to provide a parking bay dedicated to a single resident with a blue badge who is unable to have a normal blue badge bay because other blue badge holders would park there (e.g. in town centres). When that happens the bay is usually set up as a resident permit bay using a zone identifier for which only a single permit issued.
But the chances of the OP being able to get one of these is almost certainly zero, unless there is more information we've not yet been given."In the future, everyone will be rich for 15 minutes"0
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