If you have a driveway why do you not use it?

Because it's a pain in the arse juggling 3 Carson a drive

I don't like using my drive because my neighbours have decided they need 2 cars, 2 4x4s, a van and a caravan between 3 of them. I cannot see a thing past all of them lined up along the road.

It does my head in. I live in a long row of terraces a couple from the end. My neighbours at the end have a perfectly wide, paved, driveway, but instead only park their car next to it. Not over it, but next to it, avoiding the driveway completely. On the odd occasion they drive somewhere once or twice a week, leaving the space. But will sit watching out of their window to immediately move their car back into the space as soon as the other person moves.

Can’t fit our (not very big car) car on the tiny terraced house driveway. My husband can with some manoeuvring but not me. I park across our own driveway.

Yep - a neighbour who has two cars and always parks one outside his front window and one on the drive - even though drive will take two cars. They went to OZ for three months and parked both cars in the road for the duration. The problem is that a new estate was built opposite - narrow road and often parking wars!

I have some neighbours across the road that park their camper van outside my house though my front garden is long. They have a drive long enough for 3 cars and also have a 4x4. It only bothers me because every time I look out of my living room window I see this ugly van, so I bought some up and down blinds which you can set in the middle of the window so i don’t have to see it but can still see my garden and the sky which suits me fine

I park on the street because if I park on the drive, I have to get out onto a lawn that slopes upwards quite sharply from the drive.

Thanks to a less than wholly successful knee replacement and arthritis in the other knee, there's no way I can get out of the car onto the grass, it's far too high. If the drive was wider, I could park the other way round, but it's impossible to open the door more than a couple of inches if I drive in forwards.

Then a steep driveway should be a piece of cake. How has it cost you two new clutches in three years if you're not doing anything wrong?

Pocketbattleship in 27 years I never burnt a clutch so no it's not my hill starts nor do I need driving lessons.

We have 2 neighbours in our little cul de sac who have drives but don’t park in them at all. The people opposite have a van and 2 cars but park on the road causing chaos. I don’t understand them.

This is so annoying. Especially when other houses don't have a driveway and they have multiple cars!

Because Amazon delivery drivers ignored our sign that said to use the side path and not the driveway gate and they broke the hinges so we can't open the gate for our car anymore.

Other delivery people saw the sign and didn't force hinges the wrong way. Amazon said they would investigate for us and nothing happened.

If the neighbours want to pay for a new gate so we don't park on the street then they can do so.

My retired next door neighbour moves his car out of his garage at the crack of dawn, every morning, to park it on the road in front of his house, so no-one else can park there.
Then he moves it back to his garage late evening, to put it to bed.
He used to have a cone collection that he liked to randomly distribute along the road too, but I think he's been pulled up about that as it seems to have stopped of late.

How steep does your drive have to be to eat two clutches in three years? Are you sure your hill starts aren't the problem here, do you need extra lessons?

Quite a lot of y'all seem to have made poor housing choices, TBH.

Mine has gates which are triple locked from inside for security. To park on it would require me parking on the road, coming into the house, going out the double locked back door, undoing the 3 bolts on the gate, starting the car again (not good for a diesel or for battery life if done often), driving onto the drive, closing and locking the gates again.

Or I can just park on the road.

Given the frequency that some twat parks across the gates/drive blocking access, I’d also run the risk of being stuck on the drive unable to leave.

For me it’s because it’s quicker to get things from car to front door

I live on a new build estate and I park my small car on the road, while DH parks on the long drive. We do this just to save time, both cars only have one key, and we have wildly different schedules. It's legal to park on the road (not on a T junction), there is always space, it's a quiet dead end... Having said that I really hope I'm not pissing off my neighbours🤔Maybe tell your neighbour it's annoying? They might be oblivious

I have a similar issue with my neighbours, they have a 4 bedroom detached house with a driveway for ONE car! They have 3 cars of course, and a huge front lawn next to their driveway that serves no use other than to be mown occasionally. They park their other two cars SO badly outside other neighbours houses often half blocking driveways. They need to widen their drive to fit their cars as they have another child who will also be driving in a couple of years meaning 4 cars, this isn’t a lack of money situation as they go on multiple expensive holidays per year. It’s a lack of awareness or giving a shit that they annoy everyone with their selfishness.

We have the same driveway and just move the cars around. We find it so irritating though but still do it. Everyone on this estate just park on the road because they can't be bothered and it does my head in when there's cars all over the road as it makes it even harder for me to reverse out and let DH of the drive etc as there's cars everywhere and tight road as it is.

Luckily we're moving out next month and requirement of the new house had to be NO , one after the other driveways, not ours and no one else on the road. We went round a few times before buying to make sure people didn't just park everywhere and all looks fine over the past 9 months our house has been being built😆

We've got a nice big driveway that we have always parked the cars in. However, we recently started an Airbnb and I don't like to park the guests in so keep my car on the road now whenever we have guests. To be fair, my car is still parked outside our property - next to our garden, but I am pretty sure the neighbours have no clue why we've suddenly started parking it on the road and who knows, maybe they r annoyed! But we r allowed to.park there and it's in front of our own garden, so 🤷

I presume people who choose not to use their drive have good reason for doing so, even if they don't share their reasons with the neighbours! You could ask? It sounds like your neighbours aren't allowed to park on the road though and are breaking some rules??? If that's the case you have a point.

Because it's so steep, I burnt through two clutches in three years. We both park on the road now

Our driveway is at a very steep angle. On days it is very icy weather, we don't park on the driveway but on the road outside the house which is flat. Or if my dad is coming, we will park our car on the road as he has mobility issues and it's just more easier for him to be able to park on the driveway and not have to walk too much to get to the house. On all other days though, our car is in the driveway.

Moving cars about is especially a pain if someone works shifts. DH and I have a car and work during the day DS has a car and works shifts so sometimes works nights. We would have to wait up and move out cars so he could park with us able to get out in the morning or he would have to get up in the morning to move his car to let us out. Much easier if he just parks on the road.

Because mine is a weird shape, very narrow and not easy to get into. Even the best parkers do not like it. I'm a shit parker so I have no chance, and reversing out is also a nightmare. All the other neighbours have decent driveways, but our end one is shit.

Also, I live next to a busy health centre with barely any parking spaces. Although it is perfectly legal to park outside my house, it pisses me off how close they get to my hedge and block the small path to my front door.

I prefer to park outside mine, half blocking the driveway and leaving enough space for people to easily get to the door.

That's what I did, I reduced the lawn by half and extended the available parking area so I could park on my drive and bf could park beside my car at the weekends. My house was on a corner of an estate and I'd seen cars parked on the road damaged from trailers, trucks etc. Only stayed there four years and moved back to the countryside, I recently had to move my car because I parked it under a tree and it was covered in birdshit, some thanks for all the food I'd been giving them!!