Why buy a house with no parking if you have 3 cars

[Wineisrequired]

So parking where I live is awful. Made worse by people buying houses with no driveways or parking. So you now have extra cars and vans being parked on the side road. If you have that many vehicles why buy a house with no parking . Is it me and shall I just shut up. I know it’s not a given right to park near your house but parking miles away because new people moving in have lots of cars parked really grates on my nerves. Anyway rant over 🤣

I live in London - terraced house. Very few houses on our road have off street parking and if they do it’s because they have replaced their front garden with a driveway and there’s usually only room for one car.

But it does sometimes annoy me how many houses have more than one car - living in London means we have amazing public transport so it’s hard to see why 2+ cars per family is necessary. The usual pattern is to have one big 4x4 and then a smaller runaround. Parking is usually a nightmare on our road as a result - not enough spaces for all the cars.

There are far too many cars on the roads in London as it is and I do wonder why people who want to drive everywhere buy a house on our road in the first place.

We have a house with a double drive, so can park two on the drive and one across blocking them in, but we only have two cars. Parking wasn't a deal breaker for us but it would be now having had it.

I bought a cottage with no parking in an old mining village where most of the properties have no parking. I have 2 vehicles as do some of the neighbors. We are considerate and park one each outside the house and vehicle 2 somewhere else!

It is possible to manage - you just have to give a shit about leaving neighbors somewhere to park too.

Why pay extra for parking when people are allowed to store their vehicles on the road?

Same with people buying houses near schools OP...then they moan constantly about parents taking kids to school and picking them up again! I get you!

[quote Wineisrequired]@thecapitalsunited I work full time but unfortunately still couldn’t afford house prices found here . Plus a lot of the new builds don’t have parking as they are built like litre rabbit hutches[/quote]
Well, there you are.

That applies to everyone. Owning 3 cars doesn’t mean you are rich if one is a work van, one gets you to your list of visits as a Carer and one belongs to a young adult still living at home because they are on an apprenticeship.

Not everyone wants a house with a driveway.

Mine had a sort of driveway, but it's now a garden. 😌 That said, we only have one car.

My neighbours on the left have four cars and the ones on the right three. We have no car but that's not enough to compensate so there's never anywhere to park for visitors.

We can't have a drive as we live on a classified road so we won't get permission. Not everything can afford or are able to have a driveway.

@Wineisrequired

So parking where I live is awful. Made worse by people buying houses with no driveways or parking. So you now have extra cars and vans being parked on the side road. If you have that many vehicles why buy a house with no parking . Is it me and shall I just shut up. I know it’s not a given right to park near your house but parking miles away because new people moving in have lots of cars parked really grates on my nerves. Anyway rant over 🤣

I sympathise with everything you say here.

Unfortunately if you don't live in a controlled parking zone (CPZ) then it is a free for all. Anyone can park as many cars as they like on a street if they pay tax on all of the cars, they're insured etc.

The best thing you can do is try and get your area to become a permit only, controlled zone. Allocated permits per household. See if they keep the same number of cars then.

But you have a car and a house with no parking so what's the difference?

It depends on the family. Depends where you live.
Not having parking would be a dealbreaker for me. I adore driving and will never be without a car. I've had one for 30 years since passing, and I intend to always have one. Dh has one and now Ds1. There is lots of parking spaces available on the close on which we live, so having 3 cats wouldn't bother anyone.

@thecapitalsunited I work full time but unfortunately still couldn’t afford house prices found here . Plus a lot of the new builds don’t have parking as they are built like litre rabbit hutches

So you've answered your own question your reasons for buying a house with no parking are probably the same as your neighbours

@flippertygibbit

But you have a car and a house with no parking so what's the difference?

The "difference", if it even needed explaining, is that OP has the one car. Her neighbours have 3.

This is why CPZ (controlled parking zones, permit only) work for these kind of situations. Because otherwise, a small street with 24 houses could be a nightmare for parking as one household could own six cars and occupy 50% of the available on street parking.

As a student, I lived in a large early C20th semi in a house of 8. Four had cars. There was space for 2 along the frontage. One housemate having just parked up the road grumbled without irony about the parking issues.

The 4 car owners needed them. One was a motorbility car. The others worked night shifts when public transport was not running.

Modern life is awkward to arrange without a car and relies on reliable, flexible public transport and living within the hours of transport being avaliable.

Pre-war housing/ street planning was not designed with private transport in mind, but modern developments should accommodate 2 cars as standard, plus have spare capacity within the layout for additional vehicles. Planning out parking in the name of sustainability (or more accurately squeezing out every penny of profit from the land to the long term inconvenience of the occupants) does not automatically mean that people walk/ cycle/ use public transport.

As the drive for electric vehicles goes ahead, charging them in areas of difficult parking is going to be interesting...

But you’ve bought a house with no parking it seems and you have a car or cars? Why did you do it but object to others doing it?

I have 2 cars no parking and there is no parking down the street... this is because the properties were built before vehicles so no need to build garages or driveways in the 1800’s I new what I signed up for I would move house if I didn’t like it

Someone near us has just bought a huge £60k motorhome and has no driveway. They park it outside a random house in our road which really annoys the people that live there. I find it baffling why they’d buy that and have nowhere to park it. I agree with you op

OP - you can ask the council to install a controlled parking zone, that may make things easier.

Op you are talking about yourself. Surely they are the same as you cannot afford a house with parking.

It's the multiple vehicles that are an issue, here 3 of my neighbours have 3+ cars and often only 1/2 are in use it drives me potty that I often have to park on another street. I've lived here over 25yrs and it's just getting worse initially there were only several cars on the street and no option of putting in a driveway even if we squeezed one on, would mean losing lots of natural daylight, neighbours would just block us in.

This is a weird as fuck thread. You, yourself, can't afford to buy a house with parking but you're angry with other people who buy houses without parking because it means you struggle to find somewhere to park on the road?! Are you genuinely that entitled? Did it really not occur to you that you're not the only person who can't afford a house with parking and/or that you don't own the road?
Very strange post - not sure what you expected here OP.

@Frazzled2207

I struggle to understand why any family would need three cars tbh. We do fine with just one. There is a house nearby with three range rovers. Who on Earth needs three range rovers. Tbf they are all in the drive. I get why it’s annoying but not enough british houses have drives. I used to live on a terraced street where parking was a nightmare. The houses were a similar width to the lengths of the cars. So the families with two cars (there weren’t many) struggled and tended to piss off everyone else.

Some people drive in different directions for work - you can't rely on public transport to get everywhere. Or they need to ferry kids in different directions.

Another thing that has happened more recently is that companies have closed the depots where their employees parked their vans overnight, so they have to take them home, and in most cases vans are bigger than cars (and they still have their cars anyway).

However if you know you need lots of parking it is a bit silly to buy a house in a city terrace street with limited parking. Even if you can't afford off-road parking, you need to buy somewhere more realistic, eg some flats have car parks (though they still don't necessarily cater for the cars people have now).

Better public transport is part of the solution. And have a smaller car that doesn't take up as much room. I agree - who on earth needs three SUVs?

@Bluntness100

But you’ve bought a house with no parking it seems and you have a car or cars? Why did you do it but object to others doing it?

I don't think OP objects to others "doing it".

I think she's frustrated by the number of cars when they are "doing it".

Why is that so hard for people to grasp?