Driveway when we can usually get a parking spot?

[twoshoes86]

We currently have a front garden and 98% of the time get the parking spot right outside our house (it's a tricky parallel park so others don't attempt it/also an understanding that we have little kids so our neighbours generally don't park there).
We need to re-do the front garden/pathway and would have the option to build a driveway. However, this would leave the front of our house completed exposed to the road/footpath/neighbours. We currently have two large hedges and a magnolia tree which give almost total privacy! We don't particularly like the view of our neighbours houses/passers by so we are wondering whether just to re-do the path and not go for a full driveway to maintain the enjoyment of our house/inside/view? A driveway is a luxury and it wasn't a 'must have' when we bought our house.

Thoughts welcomed!

Personally I would take advantage of any free electric charging point offers put that on your house as some companies were offering free installation and consider if prices for dropped kerbs will rise in the future or not my neighbours spent £3,000 dropping there kerb and £6,000 having it extended by a very small amount a few years later

As someone who lives in a terraced street I'd say do a drive. I'm personally not too fussed when I can't park outside of my home, but apparently when I try parking elsewhere in the street I then get knocks at the door about not parking outside their house which I just ignore. But if you get a new neighbour who then begins parking outside of your house all of time how will you feel?