Are new estate 'lay-by' style parking spaces for residents only or public use?

[CrazyHormoneLady]

I've noticed some estates have a kind of 'lay-by' parking on the streets opposite houses. The houses usually have driveways and it seems like the parking spots are for people who are visiting the area, either to see residents or just go for a walk.

I saw today one with a "Resident Parking" sign hammered into the ground next to it, opposite a house with a driveway. It seems like the resident in the house wants to reserve the spot for themselves, but to me it looks like a public road.

So is the resident a CF, or are they genuinely for residents only and not people visiting the area?

I've posted a satellite image of one of these estates, with the 'lay-by' parking circled so you know what I mean.

Well it looks like a big estate, so no one will know who you are visiting... ;)

Haha very true! "I'm visiting my Nan, she's the other side of this lovely big field with lots of dog poo bins!"

Ok, so the laybys are likely on property deeds and the house owner is within their rights to put a "Residents Parking" sign on the layby...?

I'm retracting all notions of homeowner being a CF then 😜

I doubt it to be honest as the laybys are marked very differently to the actual parking areas (the image was too big so would not post)

Hmm! Now I'm confused 😂

I don't suppose they are on the property deeds for the individual properties. But the public areas including road, and maybe even where you walk the dog, are likely to be owned by the estate management company, and each resident will pay an annual charge to the company for the maintenance of the area. A quick google street view shows that the grass areas seem well maintained, which definitely wont be by a council!!

I live on a development with similar parking, each house owns 2 parking spaces, some are behind/in front/to the side. Some are lay-by style. However rather than paint house numbers on the spaces the eastate just painted/marked the visitor spaces. So that’s where visitors park.

tbh the I don’t even know which spaces, lay-by or others are owned by which houses, I just don’t use them. If the lay-by is marked as owned then I would believe it.

Our small estate is private. Some houses have parking spaces in front of the houses, some have parking spaces in a car park at the rear. Most houses have a garage and one or two parking spaces. There are designated visitor parking spaces with a V disc. Some people have tried to appropriate spaces as their own, but the management company has clamped down on that. There’s no on road parking, unless it’s a delivery driver, or tradesman. We always try to move our cars for tradesmen anyway. There’s a £100 fine for parking on the road and people have been fined for ignoring the notices that are all around.

It takes a bit of negotiating, but I’d rather have some restrictions and a quiet street, than our previous house, which supposedly had parking restrictions, which weren’t enforced and everyone ignored, so now it’s become a rat run.

On nearby new estate, laybys are labelled visitor parking. Each house has 2 spaces directly outside the front of the house.

We have similar and they're never empty as everyone who lives in our small cul de sac parks there now the babies born into in the families who moved in when it was a new development 20 years ago are grown up with cars of their own!

We had similar conversations with the council a while back as people eho didn't live here started to park in them so they didn't have so far to walk to the shops, and our tiny street was becoming clogged with cars parked on the road - it meant the kids couldn't play out, which they had enjoyed doing previously. Fortunately it's al settled down now. The council were very vague - they said didn't own the spaces, they were part of the overall fabric of the street 🤷‍♀️ We couldn't get them to confirm one way or another who owned the things - so maybe it's like that here?