[Misc] How many f*****g cars do your next door neighbours have between them?

[dsr-burnley]

Agreed planners need to provide minimum of 2 spaces per new dwelling and with so many SUV these days the driveways need to be bigger too. Does anyone know ANYONE that actually uses a garage to park a vehicle inside? Scrap these in new build just have a quarter garage for a couple of bikes and more land for a driveway.

I take it "affordable housing" isn't considered necessary in Brighton? 2 spaces per dwelling takes u an awful lot o space, and it makes building terraces or blocks of flats a bit tricky.

To answer the OP, next door above is empty (it's a council house and needs far too much work to comply with building regs, so they're leaving it empty for a few years while they have a think about it) and of the next door neighbours below (back to back), one has a car, the other has a van. Fortunately two doors down is the back wall of a small factory so there's room to park there.

 

[Seagull Stew]

Thanks your lucky stars you don't live opposite a primary school, and down the road from a high school and college!

 

[bWize]

There are a couple in their late 30's who moved in next door and only ever there half the time, if that. They bought the place as a buy to let yet think it's acceptable to park their 2 Land rovers, an Audi estate and a Porsche from their other properties on the road outside almost permanently. The road I live on has always been fairly tricky to get a parking spot, but has now got to the point where I get severe anxiety/OCD about popping out in the car in fear of losing a spot.

Some people are just f***ing selfish

 

[marlowe]

My neighbour has just bought his daughter a 2 year old BMW 3 series to have as a runaround because it was too expensive to insure her on his Range Rover. Some people have too much cash.

Bit different to squeezing the Mrs into the back of my Dad's 2 door Corsa in the car park near Hollingbury golf course for a cheeky hand job back in the day.

It was very accommodating of your father to act as your chauffer in those particular circumstances. Did he wait patiently and discreetly in the driver's seat until you were both finished or did you ask him to go out for a quick stroll and a fag....or didn't he smoke?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Not sure about the neighbouring blocks, but no one in my apartment block owns a car.

 

[marlowe]

The whole of my street is terraced houses but thankfully most households seem to have 1 car. Couple of 2 car households. Worst gripe is no one has a clue about parking and it's not at all uncommon to see 1 car taking up 1.5 or 2 spaces. Someone will park near the end of a bay but leave 2/3 of a car space between them and the end of the bay. Then the next car will be 2/3 of a car away from them and so on. If everyone just budged up a bit we'd all be able to park quite easily.

Yes, that's one of my parking gripes too. I always make sure I park right up to the end line of a bay.

 

[Jackthelad]

I can't stand the culture of people parking their cars over the path and on the grass banks outside their homes. I find myself having to walk in the road because the path is blocked.

 

[studio150]

. Does anyone know ANYONE that actually uses a garage to park a vehicle inside?

Yes, I do.

 

[Fungus]

Agreed planners need to provide minimum of 2 spaces per new dwelling and with so many SUV these days the driveways need to be bigger too. Does anyone know ANYONE that actually uses a garage to park a vehicle inside? Scrap these in new build just have a quarter garage for a couple of bikes and more land for a driveway.

Me, me! I put my car in the garage every day - my EV charger is in there, and I like having dry and frost-free windows in the morning.

Downside is we have a shared drive, and the neighbours have converted their garage to a bedroom, so visitors often assume it’s all theirs and use it. Others assume we’re out, because they don’t see our car.

Agree with planners needing to provide at least two spaces - more for bigger houses. At our previous address, the council did a ”parking survey” - in the middle of the morning, when everyone was out. Planning for further development of the estate subsequently recommended fewer than one space per house.

There are some “luxury” new-builds near me with no garage and no street parking, just two off-road spaces. For some reason, they haven’t been able to sell them after two years, despite dropping the price from £850k to £650k.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Thankfully northstandchat is home to an unusual concentration of highly considerate road users. The other non NSCer's is the section of the population is riddled with entitled wankers it appears

 

[Official Old Man]

I've lived in our small close for 22 years. There are 30 x 4/5 bedroom detached houses. When we moved in, each house had one or two cars with each house having parents with children aged around 5 to 10. Over the years these kids have grown up, passed their test and purchased cars. So from 1 or 2 cars it went to 4 or 5 cars.
Then, over the past few years the kids have moved out, the parents retired and they have downsized which means the circle starts again.
We have three vehicles for three adults. Two cars and one van, and we make use of our two car drive.

 

[Rdodge30]

Without any apparent sense of self awareness he often comments how parking has become a problem in our road.

that right there is a prime example of modern life

 

[WATFORD zero]

Me and Mrs Wz have three cars that are all in our driveway. Our next door neighbour has one on her driveway, and the four houses opposite have 1,2,2,2 respectively of which only one car is ever parked on the road (they only have room for one on their drive). Very considerate neighbours

 

[Nitram]

Victorian terraces where I live in Brighton so no driveways.
Parking used to be a major problem but since they introduced resident parking it’s sorted that.
Not many multiple car owners in our street, it may just be a sign of town living.

 

[knocky1]

No suburban parking stress for me. I have a little twitten and a back passage. Great not hearing cars all day or witnessing parking fascists.

 

[WATFORD zero]

No suburban parking stress for me. I have a little twitten and a back passage. Great not hearing cars all day or witnessing parking fascists.

The answer to so many issues in life

 

[Lenny Rider]

Unfortunately its the world we live in......

Got back to the 15th January 1975, my family unit had three cars on the road, My Dad and my two Grandads.

Today, just my immediate family, Mrs H, the kids and their partners have 6 cars on the road, take my brothers and their families into the equation and its another 8.

14 cars from a family that had 3 50 years ago, replicate that around the country, alligned with the fact that public transport has gone to ratshit, and we basically have too many cars on the road.

As for your problem, all the time the cars are taxed and insured, unfortunately you don't really have an argument, have you tried talking to them?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Victorian terraces where I live in Brighton so no driveways.
Parking used to be a major problem but since they introduced resident parking it’s sorted that.
Not many multiple car owners in our street, it may just be a sign of town living.

Same where I live. What we do have is an excellent car sharing service though, which we all use. Open an app, find a nice shiny Audi and use this. In all the years we have used it there’s never been a shiny Audi more than a block away.

 

[ozzygull]

We have three cars currently, they all fit on our drive way (that is one car each) as our daughter is currently home. We do have six motorbikes, but they are all hidden away somewhere. As for neighbours we don't have any issues, but most have their own drive. My only issue is with people who park their car on the pavement, saying that once I have tutted and got past it I have already gotten over it and moved on with my day. As long as people don't block my drive I don't really care what they do with their cars or how many they have. Mind you my husband seem to finds way to moan about it, but I just ignore him

 

[A mex eyecan]

If you ever start a thread here trying to sell a second hand Corsa, I suspect you might not get too many takers

come again?