To think families that have more vehicles than people and no drive are selfish twats!

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Yes I'm looking at you Mr and Mrs Silver cars across the road. There are only two of you, you have no drive and yet you have now got 3 cars (they acquired a new one today) and a van (all of which are silver hence the name).

What the fuck do you need 4 vehicles for you can only physically be driving 2 at a time!

We live on a road which like many others across the country has difficulties regarding parking, only a few houses have drives. So why would you think it is reasonable to have 4 vehicles. You are pretty much ensuring that your neighbours have difficulty parking and yes I think you are selfish twats why don't you move to a house with a drive!

Does anyone else have such entitled car collecting neighbours?

Sorry for the rant but they do my head in. Every night moving their cars to be as close to the house as possible. As soon as anyone leaves the space seems to be filled with one of their cars.

I do think it’s a bit selfish to have a surplus of cars if you’ve got nowhere to keep them, and especially if you’re relying on on street parking.
We have one more car than people who can drive. (Two ‘speciality’ vehicles and a normal car) and we specifically bought a house with a long enough drive for at least 2 of them. I guess we are quite lucky that in our area there are average houses available that have ample parking, I know this probably isn’t the case for a lot of people, but you have to have some consideration for your neighbours.
All the houses down our road have nice long drives but we are one of the few that actually uses theirs. It’s not a huge problem as there’s only one side of the street with houses on, but I don’t really understand why they don’t park on their drives.

I think it's a very common problem. We live on a street of semis all with driveway but they're very steep at our end of the street so hardly anyone parks on them. Most houses have one or two cars and park considerately but family two doors down have two cars for two people and often two visitors cars. None of them use the (flat) driveway but they're happy to block everyone else's, including that of the elderly lady between us who has carers several times daily who require access.
Yes they can park where they like but whether they should is another matter. There was open warfare in the street when someone dared to challenge them!

Ugh YANBU! it's so selfish and incredibly annoying.
I've moved now, but my mums neighbours on one side have 5 cars between the mum and the 4 kids, then her partners car and his work van and then the girlfriends of the 3 boys when they come over too.
As soon as a car on our road moves they rush out of the house to take the spot if it's closer than the one they're already in and they are so rude.

My mum is disabled and they continually park in the disabled spot and don't care that she has to park minutes down the road and hobble home.

Mean spirited people.

Maybe we should follow Japan's lead. No car unless you can prove you have an off-street parking place big enough for it.

www.reinventingparking.org/2014/06/japans-proof-of-parking-rule-has.html

Fabulous. Only the well off get to own cars then.

We have one of those! 6 cars, not even nice ones! 2 adults who can drives on street parking plus he insists on moving the cars around so that they are right outside his house in a row so he’s constantly moving around and jumping in spaces. We live next door...

I live in the blue collar area of my city.
Looking out of my front window into my little street, I can see multiple cars, a large car transporter belonging to someone who works for Green Flag, numerous vans and a vintage coach. Plus the motorbikes and the large campervan they use for weekend events. In addition to living in the expensive SE, so multiple adults unable to afford leaving the nest is a big problem.
I’d like resident permits.

The road we used to live on was a road of Victorian terraced purpose built maisonettes. Some two bed, some one bed.
Meaning each building could often have 6 cars per building! Parking was absolutely insane.

Lucky now to be one of two houses on our current road that has a drive. Still doesn't stop me getting annoyed at the man who doesn't even live on our road but leaves two decrepit camper vans on the corner of our road that haven't moved in the five years I've lived here and are up on bricks! Doesn't help that the council installed a bike hangar opposite where he parks and turning in to the road is a massive blind spot.

My friend lives on a small road/cul de sac that has 4 houses of multiple occupancy, and in each house lives 8 men. You can imagine the carnage because most of them have cars.

DH and I have a car and a motorbike each, but we have designated parking for them which we rent (live in an apartment currently). A garage for the bikes and driveway big enough for at least 2 cars is at the top of our house hunting list

Lol. Is permit parking in my area, £50 for one car, £150 for 2 cars or £350 for 3 cars. More than 3 not allowed. No-one has drives, and we are close to a football stadium, so it is practically impossible to park on match day. I don't know any houses with more cars than people.

Oww I'm so glad many of you seem to understand where I was coming from.

I understand that lots of people need cars to get to work etc but the public transport here is very good and there are even schemes at many companies incentivising you with free or reduced transport costs if you use it. Surely that would be cheaper than having extra vehicles to tax and insure?

I went to bed last night and 10 minutes later I heard him and his wife outside. He had her standing in a space that had become available whilst he went to get one of the cars from 5/6 houses down the road! It was gone 11pm so I've no idea why he felt the need to move it other than to ensure it was closer to his front door.

I do think permit parking would really help but I'm not sure the council would consider it, they don't even have permit parking near many of the schools around here so not sure we would be considered for it.

I don’t know why people are so smug about their endless vehicles when the planet is basically going to be dead in 10 years

This. All the virtue signalling about using a cloth bag instead of a plastic one, but drive oversized gas-guzzling Chelsea tractors down the road when they could walk the same journey in 10 minutes.

Pretty unusual for so many people to admit to being Cheeky Fuckers.
And you people with 7 vehicles are definitely CFs

I can't believe there are nearly 90 messages on this!

Someone owning more than one car is "entitled"? Grow up.

As long as it is taxed and insured, they can own as many cars as they like. Some people do like to drive for pleasure rather than necessity. If they aren't encroaching on your property, what does it have to do with you?

And no. my wife and I don't have more than one car per person. And we don't park on the street. My neighbour does though. He has two cars (one for fun) and a van for work. And no-one around here could care less.

Ha, but I raise you this for inconsiderate. Our neighbour's have a parking space but park on street to leave it free for their visitors. That way they take up two parking spaces for one detached home. Across street is a terrace with multiple homes ie several cars and no parking. Luckily we have our our off street parking so doesn't affect us but I do find it breathtaking that they just take up a space they don't need for age few times they have someone over.

All the parked cars and vans make it much harder to cross the roads with kids as well. Funny how the private motor car dominates public space.

There's a road near me that is awful to cross because of the reduced visibility around the cars. What drives me mad is the unused driveways.

Selfish, selfish, selfish.

I don't drive so I don't care who parks where on my road. But I do get pissed off when over the road who has 4 vehicles (and only he can drive) parks one of them on the pavement so close to my gate that when I have my niece I can't get the pram round.
It also pisses me off that every house just about on this lane has a drive. But they leave the drive empty and park so close to the wall and their overgrown bushes that I can't get through and have to walk on the road. You've got a fecking drive! Use it!

We live on a road with very limited parking, with spare spaces round the corner near a church and there are a couple of cars (mainly slightly flashy ones) that owners only seem to drive occasionally as they have another car, and I wish they would park them away round the corner so that more of us with just the one car that we use regularly could more often park near our homes.

YANBU OP.

People should have a little more community mindedness when choosing where to live, to make sure it suits their circs. When I bought this house, parking was one of the things I strongly considered. I rejected another really nice house because it had one space, where this one has (by strange quirk of design) room for about 5 cars off street!

Parking here is awful though - people ignore their allocated spaces a few steps away to park on the road directly outside their front door, and on corners everywhere. I almost will someone to have a fire and watch the fire engine crashing them out of the way because there is no way it would comfortably fit round these narrow roads.

Some people do like to drive for pleasure rather than necessity. If they aren't encroaching on your property, what does it have to do with you?

But that’s the point of the thread, it does encroach on others. If you only have space for one car on a drive, or amazing like some people a handful but have no drive then it quite obviously is encroaching on others yes it may not be on their property but it’s certainly right in front and meaning they can’t park. It’s insanely selfish. I can’t understand the mindset of buying things when you have knowhere to put them, it’s just greed surely.

YANBU OP!

On my street we have allocated parking spaces. The first 4 houses have 1 space, the next 3 have 2 spaces and the other 5 have driveways (we have 2 spaces).

1 of the houses with 1 space have 3 cars - 2 they use and 1 which is broken and has been parked at the bottom of the road for over a year.

1 of the houses with a driveway big enough for 1 family car have a pick up truck (which they park on the drive but it also takes up the pavement), a family car they park outside their house, their sons little car which is parked anywhere he can fit it and a business van, also parked wherever he can fit it. They also sometimes bring a small lorry home and park it on a grass verge which takes away all visibility at a junction. They are CF experts though (building works at 5:30am on a Sunday, dog barking at all hours etc).
When they first moved in, the husband actually kicked off at my neighbours because he thought the allocated space outside neighbours space was his (CFs).

On the opposite side of the street we have a family of 4. Driveway which fits 5 cars. Wife and teenage daughter both park their 4x4s on the street whenever possible because "it's hard to get on and off the drive" (funnily enough, old owners daughter used to park her car on it, then use the driveway to turn around so she didn't have to reverse out so it's not like it's bloody small)!

I have the opposite - live in a house with 2 designated parking spaces and I don’t drive. I’d really like it to be used but there isn’t really a parking problem on my estate and I don’t know whether the terraced houses on the main road 5 mins away would be interested in using them. I realise this isn’t a “problem” but I do angst about not using the spaces when I know there are parking issues elsewhere in the city!

We luckily have a drive and only one car but around the corner from us there are two households opposite each other who are both car collectors. One buys and sells cars and would have 4-5 at any time, the one opposite just has lots of cards and motorbikes. Both have tiny drives but oh I would hate living near them. A bit further down on that stretch is a house which runs some sort of import/export firm through their drive, how that can be legal I do not know and they have cars and vans spilling out everywhere.

Fabulous. Only the well off get to own cars then

Not really. There's a big difference between having a car that meets your transport needs, and several status symbol cars which go way beyond.

Some people do like to drive for pleasure rather than necessity. If they aren't encroaching on your property, what does it have to do with you

Also when cars are too big they encroach on space in car parks so you can't park and they take up more room on the roads and cause traffic jams because either you can't get round them, or they can't get round you/an obstruction that a smaller car would get round quite easily.