Parking thread- am I the CF?

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I live on a new build estate which I love, but recently the parking has become a total nightmare! I live in a row of four houses, each with a garage behind and an allocated parking space next to the garage. In front of the houses there are two visitors parking bays. Since moving in 7 years ago (when the houses were built), I've always parked in one of the visitor spaces, my next door neighbour uses the other. There is no rear access to the garages, so I have to walk around all the other houses to get to my house. No one was using the visitor parking so it seemed simpler. Recently other people have been parking in this spot. That's fine, it's a visitor spot and if someone else is there then I'll happily park in my parking space. However, I've often noticed that if I park there first, then someone parks behind me, making it almost impossible for me to get out. My neighbour next door has been having the same problem. There's lots of spare parking on the street, so there's no need for them to park here.

So my AIBU is- am I being the CF by being lazy and not using my own parking space, or are they by parking me and my neighbour in?

Just use your own space. If you have shopping go round to the front to drop it off, then park behind house and walk

Nope you're the CF and the person parking right up behind you is possibly making a point... and may have been advised to do so by the MN massive

You bought the house knowing how far you had to walk and have had 7 years of not bothering, and you can still get out of the parking space so your not actually blocked in are you?

How do I add a picture??? I've drawn one but can't work out how to upload it?

You are being unreasonable by even starting a parking thread without having prepared a diagram and worked out how to upload it.

I can't deliver any sort of judgement on anything else until there is a diagram. (YOu need to use the 'browse' buttons under the text box to find the file on your device and upload it).

You are being a CF. I live on a new estate and people constantly park on the road instead of their driveway or one of the communal bays often just to save themselves a few meters extra walk. I wish someone would block them in repeatedly until they learned to use the appropriate spaces

All the background is irrelevant, if anyone blocks anyone else in there are the CF surely

Hmm... sorry I think you're being a CF leaving your space empty when those are designated visitor spaces. Surely the answer is to drop shopping/work bags at front of the house and then drive round and park to walk back with the three year old?

Op just park in your own space

Where is the diagram? It's the rulz.

OP: Am I being a CF?
Answer from 90 per cent of posters: Yes
OP: But everyone else does it.

I had this problem constantly when visiting my mum. 2 visitors bays, the rest was allocated parking or garages, but you had to pay to buy an allocated space. Some people had a space, but didn't park in it, parked in the visitors bays because they were too lazy to walk an extra 100 yards to their house. Or they parked in the visitors bays to save the space for a visitor (ahem first come first served).

I was quite happy to park elsewhere and walk, but what mad me mad as hell was the fact that I was often there to take mum to hospital appointments and so forth and she is disabled so because of CFs like you I had to block the entrance to her estate as she lived by the entrance, the visitors bays were opposite her kitchen window, to get her into the car, plus wheelchair etc and do the same on the return. Get her into her house then go and find a parking space for my car, then go back to my mum's and settle her in (she also had dementia).

Same sort of people park in disabled bays because they are only going to be 5 minutes, or they are just waiting for someone and will moved if asked. I shouldn't have to ask the CFers to move from a disabled bay.

You are being a CF and I don't care if everyone else does it as they are CFs as well. Just because they are doesn't mean you have to be, or are you a sheep?

*but recently the parking has become a total nightmare!
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Well, yeah... 😂😂😂

You’re a CF who probably needs to buy a dictionary and look up the definition of a visitor

Hmm, seems like the arrangement was fine when you moved in there, because you didn't have a baby or young child to trail around the houses with you then, so you didn't think of it, and it'll be better in a couple of years when your DC is older.

I'd agree that the best option would be access from the back of the house to the garage / parking bay. Is there no way that you can create that?

I understand your position. I really don't see the point of having a designated parking spot so far from the houses.

It's also odd that there's no back garden access to the garage, if they are behind the houses. Did I understand it correctly?

It would make more sense to have visitor parking at the back and your parking spot at the front of your house.

Having said this, you say you almost can't get out when parking in the visitor spot. So, you do have room to get out, just not much. But that is normal in parking. I don't see the problem.

You need to go into new post and click the paper clip button.

I imagine a lot of these issues would not happen if house builders weren't such greedy bastards and allocated more/easier space for cars. As soon as you see plans for new estates around here you can tell they will be a nightmare for parking.

Agree with Nanna50, I think your other neighbours are trying to make a point about your use of the visitor spaces whilst your own garage and space are left unused.

Sorry Op, I think you are and your other neighbour who keep using these spaces are being quite inconsiderate and I guess it’s “only started recently” because your neighbours have had enough of it and are hoping you’ll get the message, in preference to having to tackle you face to face over it. I think you know this really.

My neighbours complain if people other than visitors park in the bay, it's outside there house and they say they ate ok with cArs coming and going (quite village so not busy) rather than sit and look at. Car all day every day.

I imagine a lot of these issues would not happen if house builders weren't such greedy bastards and allocated more/easier space for cars.

But there ARE enough spaces for visitor cars @floralcup

The problem here is the OP who is parking in the visitor spaces when she has a naffing garage!

But there ARE enough spaces for visitor cars
Yes, but the OP's space does not sound very convenient - she has to walk past three houses and three garages. If the developer gave her access through the back garden she would be more likely to use it - the same with the neighbours across the road by the sounds of it.

We had my child as a newborn when we moved in. We also had a long walk to and from the car. We just dealt with it

Are there any people on your street who don't have their own parking spaces? I'm in this position and would be very annoyed if someone was using up one of the few spaces I could use when they had one of their own which presumably they wouldn't allow me to use.

It's the same car that does it, so it's obviously someone else who lives here and has their own allocated space too?

Their visitors are probably parked I their allocated space because someone’s taken up all the visitor’s spaces.

Sorry but I agree you’re a CF. You have a garage and a parking spot which both remain vacant while you hog a visitor space which is supposed to be for shared use.

Is it not simply a case that you need to create a rear access? Make a gateway?