I’ve said this before but the UK needs to decide which way to go on transport.
If you want a society where people drive almost everywhere and everyone has as big a car as they like, then fine. But you need to be prepared to do what America, Canada, Australia etc. did in the 20th century and rebuild your cities around cars (which involves knocking down most lovely old buildings, creating rather charmless ugly cities that are full of enormous car parks and great big roads, and accepting that cities will need get much, much bigger, meaning that loads of green fields will need to get concreted over).
Or: if you want a society that preserves more of its lovely old buildings, has charming city centers and preserves its remaining countryside by keeping its cities compact, you can do that instead, BUT it means accepting that you need to density cities and build upwards, shift massively towards public transport, walking and biking, and restrict cars - both reducing car usage in cities, and pushing people firmly towards smaller cars unless they live in rural areas.
The UK is trying to cram ever-growing numbers of car journeys by ever-growing numbers of drivers in ever-more massive, heavy, space-hogging, road-crushing vehicles….into cities that have never been designed around car use in the first place. The result is parking turf wars, road congestion that is getting worse each year, and road surfaces that are pockmarked with holes and falling to pieces, because you have got way too much car grinding away on way too little road space.
One way or the other, seriously. Hard choices and trade offs need to be accepted here.