People parking outside your house

12 days ago

Random question but why do people get so annoyed about other cars parking outside their house? What is the perceived annoyance about this? I personally don’t care if someone is parked outside my house.

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OnePlan
It’s weird isn’t it . I don’t like it if people park outside my house and open their doors into my lavender. But that’s what you get when you live with no formal front garden I suppose.
12 days ago
E D
I live on a fairly busy road and a few years ago the road’s layout was changed and the parking spaces removed.

I’m now used to parking around the corner.

The good news? I never get annoyed by other cars parked outside my house. 😁
12 days agolast modified: 12 days ago
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Yes, but it also take a special kind of arrogance to override an architect's vision for a particular development. For example, my parents' housing estate was designed with no garden walls at the front so that the houses would seem as if they are almost in a park and there would be an expanse of green all the way along the roads. Then a few territorial types took it into their heads to build piddly little garden walls so now the road is a hodge podge of some green with a few silly walls around some gardens. There is no design consensus so the street doesn't look as good as it could look. Anarchy in design doesn't usually work. Usually it looks better when one person makes the design decisions and one, cohesive vision is expressed. For example, would you employ a different interior decorator with wildly different styles for each room in your house? It might work, but there's a greater chance it will look like the hodge-podge that it is. Would you have one dress designer make your whole dress or would you ask for pockets and collar to be cut by someone else? In some cases, a good result can come of an individual resident on a street making their own strong statement with the exterior of their house (we're not talking about subtleties such as colour of doors etc), but they are definitely the exceptions that prove the rule. I can think of many examples of tasteless 'improvements' made by individual residents to their properties (e.g. the one pictured above, frankly) and only a few good ones.
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E D
Out of interest One Plan, what do you mean by ‘no formal front garden’?
12 days ago
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OnePlan
My cottage is built on a farm track that has then become a road - so I have no front garden - just an area about the depth of a pavement in the area of the oldest part of the house - and an actaual pavement in the slightly newer part ( still 1800’s !)
12 days ago
Patrina
If you are not a delivery driver, ambulance etc you should not be parked outside my house. My pet peeve is when next door has guests and they park half hanging in front of my drive despite having a lay by less than 10 meters away. very annoying.
12 days ago
E D
Maybe Darren was one of your next door’s guests, Patrina...

🤣
12 days ago
rachelmidlands
I too live on a busy main road in town and I don’t mind people parking in front of the house. However we do have narrow entrance to the driveway and when people park in front of the drive because they’ve got a dentist appointment 3 doors down the road and I need to do the school run...well that’s when the full wrath of a woman’s fury is unleashed🤯.....beeping horns, note on the windscreen, even marched into the dentists to tell them to “shift your blummin vehicle”! So in front of house is fine but NEVER park in front of my drive! 🙂
Best one is when I came out one morning to see this: (kids or drunken louts, we never found out, but it made me laugh 😆)
12 days ago
Jules Mc
You could leave it there and sit on it, moving people on when they try and park there Rachel 😂🤣
12 days ago
rachelmidlands
He he 😂. Either that or I’ll get a cardboard cut out of a traffic warden and attach it to the lamppost 😉.
11 days ago
Sonia
None of us own the road in front of our houses so I cannot understand why people get upset. It’s not illegal. First come first serve, and all that. Now if someone parks in front of a driveway, that’s another matter! However, considering the problems some people have in this world, it’s all seems rather small minded and pathetic.
11 days ago
Ellie
I own the road in front of my house. it's a small private road with 2 houses on it. It does annoy me on the rare occasion that someone parks directly out the front of my house as the neighbours drive is big enough for about 7 cars@
11 days ago
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OnePlan
We get these helping themselves to my window boxes more often than cars to be honest !
11 days ago
minnie101
I'm on a private road (which we don't own) which sits sideways onto the main road. It drives us absolutely nuts if people park an inch from our living or dining room window plus they frequently block our "porch" so we can't even get out of the house. The house is absolutely perfect for us other than this. Funnily enough we're less annoyed when people park in our own drive! The main road has houses dating back to the 1300's so parking is a major issue other than the few with the original cartways as obviously the houses didn't need to accommodate for parking! We'd probably feel differently living in London or having a front garden but we find it such bad manners to park against someone's windows tbh. We're actually in a position ATM where we will probably move as a result of it as the parking situation will be exacerbated 😭
11 days ago
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OnePlan
That’s such a shame Minnie101, as your home is totally lovely ! ( the bits I’ve seen !) would the council let you install parking bollards I wonder ??
11 days ago
minnie101
Thanks Karen, I know 😭 sadly it's privately owned and they're looking to develop the land behind us into flats with nowhere near enough parking spaces. Just trying to decide where to live if we do move. London is calling me ATM despite a considerable downsize 😂
11 days ago
Anthony
i think anyone parking in a street of terraced homes they don’t live in is asking of trouble, esp if they don’t have parking spots of their own.

bit to common sense and common courtesy will go a long way when you pull up somewhere you don’t know and think about parking outside someone’s home.
10 days ago
minnie101
Where's Beano gone? 😭
10 days ago
Sonia
My road is all 1930s terraced houses without drives or garages and it is a free for all. We all park anywhere we can find a spot. No one gets annoyed or argues as it’s a problem we all share and what’s the alternative anyway? Some of us, me included, have built garages or parking areas in our back gardens accessible via a service road. I did this because I was sick and tired of coming home after a night out and finding no parking spaces at all! The joy of living in an older terrace.

@OnePlan i love your visitors! 😊

@rachelmidlands hope you recycled that stool and put it to good use! 😊
10 days agolast modified: 10 days ago
rachelmidlands
@Sonia 🙂 I might have been tempted to upcycle the stool but the seat had a large chunk of wood missing, neighbour was ridding out some old furniture and left it on the pavement the night before 🙄 so I just put it back.
10 days ago
PRO
The JOY of Blinds and Shutters
Hi Darren, why do people get so annoyed about other cars parking outside their house? Here are some possible reasons:

Hazardous - It might cause difficulties when going in and out of the drive, especially when trying to see around the parked vehicle when traffic is heavy.

Territorial - Just as ‘your home is your castle’, people often extend this to their frontage.

Fear - Who might they be? Could they be burglars??

Aesthetics - Some people feel that parked cars around their property make their frontage look cluttered and untidy - but perhaps not as cluttered as in my photo below!
10 days ago

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People parking outside your house

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