Parking situation on my new road.

[JennaTools]

I have just completed on a new house. When I viewed it I spent time on different days popping by the road at different times of day to checkout the parking situation and all was fine. My house and the one opposite have a drive for 1 car odd road and the others have space for 2. I only have one car.

The house opposite was for sale at the same time and the new occupants have just moved in a couple of weeks after me.
They have 6 cars!!!! (Green)

I have tried my best on the diagram to illustrate where everyone tends to park - each house has a coloured for above and then their cars are the same colour lines.
I only have one car so my driveway is ample however with green house wankers parking their cars all over the place - mainly at the end of the cul de sac - it's really hard to get out of my drive with cars also parked on the road in between my house (red) and my nice NDN (blue)

I've popped round and introduced myself and explained asking them politely not to park the three cars at the the end of the cul de sac (which is a dropped kerb. But they closed the door in my face and I haven't seen them since. Tonight they've got all of their cars all over the road as per the diagram.

What's my best course of action here?

Interested to see what happens when you get home!

Leave it there for always and eternity OP.

hello NNDN

I'm househunting and had found a really nice house near the end of a cul de sac with a driveway for one car and we have two cars. Was wondering if it would be possible to park on the end of the cul de sac, someone else already does.

Changing my mind about the house now!

i hope CF get the message !!!
if not im sure some local MN would gladly come and park their cars there and help out
If I lived close I defo would

Shameless place marking! 🍿 ☕️

I wouldn't buy a house without adequate parking. Now I can drive I wouldn't go back to public transport. My DM was on a bus when two men came downstairs and said that there was a drunk man upstairs peeing everywhere. Things like this aren't even rare.

@crazycatgal you may not get a choice - more and more new homes are being built with minimum room for cars- and long term we need to be all using more public transport (and get the Government etc. to invest in it properly).

6you may not get a choice - more and more new homes are being built with minimum room for cars- and long term we need to be all using more public transport (and get the Government etc. to invest in it properly).

Lots of development in our currently rural area. Lots of houses being built with only 1 space,but the public transport from the market town consists of 1 bus per hour last buses 7pm. If you live in my village 3 buses out in the morning and 3 back in the afternoon. No buses on a Sunday. —long placemark missing point of thread—

Boomboom that;s all very well in theory, but doesn't reflect the reality of a lot of people's lives.

I live a two-mile walk (most of which is steeply uphill) from the nearest railway station. The last bus is at 5.40 pm. When DP was working in London, his train home didn't get in until 7.20 (on the rare occasions it was on time). I think it's unreasonable to expect someone to walk home when they've spent 4 hours travelling and 8 hours working.

He now works in a town 10 miles away. The first bus that stops near where he works is at 9.55, the previous one (2 hours earlier) bypasses it completely and goes straight to the town centre, 1.5 miles away. The bus journey takes an hour, it takes him 20 minutes to drive.

I'm an essential car user for work. I do around 30 miles work mileage a day, impossible to do by public transport. There are lots of people in similar jobs. And this is in the south-east commuter belt, in a town of 20k+ population, with 2 of the county's biggest employers.

Unless you live in a big conurbation with good public transport, a car is pretty much essential.

@Bekabeech It's one of the reasons why I'm reluctant to buy a new build. A house without 2 parking spaces wouldn't work for me. My DP works somewhere 20 miles away that isn't accessible by train and I'm going into teaching so will need to carry resources + books etc so public transport isn't suitable.

I believe it's little enforced road law that you must leave 1m on either side of a driveway so you could possibly contact parking services and as them to enforce it?

Failing that you can just park on the street but DO fix a security camera outside first to make sure they don't accidentally key your car!

This has been an epic read so far cant wait for the update later

🍿 brilliant diagram. What a cheeky fucker

I’ve just bought a shared ownership home. Brand new. My home and the others the same around it all have drives for two cars. The flats have 1 space each. Yet some the massive houses round the corner which cost £350 grand + don’t have a drive or the ones that do only have 1. You’d have to pay £400 grand for a double drive on my new build estate if you weren’t shared ownership. When I asked why and how the heck this was it was because the housing association that own the remaining 25% that I pay rent on are aware that parking issues can cause major problems between neighbours so they had it put in the clause. It’s crazy that you walk round the corner and see range rovers, Mercedes etc worth ten times my car parked illegally because they just don’t have enough room. I’ve heard on the grape vine about a car that repeatedly parks on a junction that is causing upset with their neighbours.

Op I adore your diagrams 😍 I think they might just be the best I’ve ever seen. You’ve really set the bar for parking threads now.
I really hope cf neighbours realise they are out of order and you can enjoy your home without parking stress with your nndn.

We have a bus there and back twice a week in our village!!!

Place marking! Can't wait to find out what happens when OP is home. I have a feeling they are going to block your drive, but I hope not.

DH and I have been complaining for years about new builds not being realistic about the number of cars families have now - especially with adult children staying at home longer.
Reducing parking will not make people get public transport when half the issue is that the buses/trains etc don't run at the right times to the right places or are overpriced and overcrowded. People will just park elsewhere or illegally in some cases. My DH and I used to spend more on train travel a month than on our mortgage as the coaches and buses didn't run late enough.
People aren't able to get a job just round the corner anymore. And even if they did, we would still need a family car for visiting family and days out, doing the groceries, travelling to appointments etc etc. Plus I can't risk getting stuck on a delayed train if I have my son to collect from preschool -and yes,trains get delayed a lot more than the chance of serious traffic delays or broken down vehicles in my experience.

That aside, hope it all calms down soon OP. Needing more than 1 car in a family doesn't entitle you to park like a dick. And if I had 6 I wouldn't be buying a property with a 1 car drive....

I think they'll block your drive too. Then I suggest you block them all in.

I feel compete anxiety on your behalf OP, this would have me throwing up in anger [anger]

The lack of parking at most homes is a big bugbear of mine. We happen to own two classic minis, which we have saved from landfill. We use them at events to raise money for a charity that works in our local community (as well as across the UK) and they are our hobby.

To avoid being an annoyance or burden, we are looking for a home that meets our needs as a family, is within reasonable commuting distance of my husband's job, and has a double garage plus off road space for two cars.

That's like looking for a golden pin in a haystack.

I'm not defending your CF neighbours and I get just as wound up by bad parking as anyone else. I'm just saying that car ownership isn't intrinsically a bad thing.

I used to live in a seaside town and there were no buses to my place of work. Regularly came home to people parked over the entrance to our drive and even on the drive! The excuse was "Well, the kids wanted to go to the beach and we couldn't find anywhere else." Moved slightly out of town and into a road with loads of space, until the council put double yellows down a nearby road (Victorian houses with no drives) then the road was inundated with cars and no way of knowing who was parked over dropped herbs etc. Fortunately by then we had moved to rural Brittany. Apparently Poole in Dorset has built loads of flats in the town centre with no parking whatsoever. "I predict a riot!"

What a bloody nightmare situation.

I had a situation when new neighbours moved into the house opposite, they had four massive cars (old jaguars, rovers etc) and no drive. I had a drive just big enough for two cars but only if one blocked the other in, so I always used to park on the road directly outside my house because DH and I didn't always leave the house in the same order and it was a pain shunting cars around at 7am. New neighbour approached us to have a go at us for parking on the road instead of using our drive, when I pointed out the logistics he said we were selfish! Bear in mind there was plenty of parking a few meters along the road, he just wanted all his cars within view of his house. I posted on MN about it but people told me I was being unreasonable

Hope you get things sorted OP and NNDN, parking wars are no fun.

@ACatsNoHelpWithThat

You are being unreasonable if you have a driveway but don't use it fully because you can't be bothered with moving for each other. You then take up space on the road which is really needed by people without driveways.

There was a thread here a couple of weeks ago with the poster being on the opposite side of your situation. Neighbour refused to park both their cars on their drive as they didn't want to shuffle cars in the morning, so the OP had to park further away from her house. Everyone was on her side.

@Rocinante1 I forgot to put in my post that the neighbours were just one couple who owned the four cars between them - three belonged to the man and one to the woman (apologies for the micro drip-feed - I did put this when I posted a few years back). If one of us had to be inconvenienced I didn't see why they should get priority over me and DH - I thought it was reasonable for the parking outside my house to be first come first served i.e. if they were already parked there I simply parked further along the road. Also because they had 4 cars to choose from then they were sometimes parked outside our house for a week or more before moving. I'd never have dreamt of speaking to them about it though!