Why pay extra for a driveway then make it unusable?

[Yuknow]

I have moved to a new build estate where all homes have either a driveway or allocated parking spaces.

There isn’t a lot of space for additional cars. Some of the turnings are super tight to get round and I notice that this is due to the amount of people who have a driveway to the front or side, but can’t use it to park their cars. Because they have dumped a clapped out motor that doesn’t run, or using it as a skip to permanently contain the unwanted contents of their house. This creates massive eyesores, could attract rats and inconvenience to everyone else.

They also won’t park one car in front of the other on the driveway (there is space). I assume as it’s a pain to let someone else out of the space before you leave. One house has one of those internal garages without a door as their only parking space and a huge Range Rover which doesn’t fit in it so they park across the pavement. The ones with garages without a door also use it as a skip to store all their broken unwanted things like sofas and mattresses

These are not small houses either, and the cars are expensive (Mercs/audi/BMW) so people can probably afford to get a skip, or take their rubbish to the local dump? The houses with driveways are a lot more expensive than the ones with allocated parking so it makes no sense!

Drives me mental, on 2 fronts, I hate that developers just ignore that most homes have 2+ cars these days and then don’t consider visitors etc, it’s like they think if they build less parking we’ll magically start using cars less.
And I hate when people don’t actually park on their property. We live on a new build estate but thankfully they’re quite big homes with lots of parking and on our cul de sac the driveways are amble big enough, but the road leading onto the estate people just park on the street and leave their driveway clear (too lazy to swap cars around, that’s why).

I agree people are too lazy to swap cars around.
We did it endlessly at our last house. In this house we can park side by side, but over the road can’t and they won’t swap cars around. In fact they wouldn’t have to all that often. They just park one on the road that, due to it being a narrow road and the angle of our drive, actually makes it really difficult for us to get on & off our driveway. I love it when they are out, parking on my driveway is so much easier!

When I was a teen our house had a single driveway that fitted 3 cars and we were endlessly swapping them around to avoid parking on the street, I think most people on the streets I see here would look at me like I was mental if I suggested it, even if they only had 2 cars. I didn’t want to be swapping cars around either, which is why a double driveway was high up on our list after years of single driveways and swapping around.