>If I had spent a premium on a house to have off road parking I’d be p1ssed if someone blocked the space.
It’s not always quite as simple as that.
Where we are now, everyone has a drive (and they’re deep enough to put a car on.) But because of the width of the road (a close) there’s parking bays staggered, so if anyone – or a few houses – had several lots of workmen around then there’s a good chance someone’s gonna get their drive parked across – fortunately everyone seems to be fairly reasonable about it.
Where we used to live – Edwardian/Victorian semis, the front gardens almost all too short to get anything much bigger than a Smart car onto front first, but with just enough room for 1 1/2 cars along the curb. Sometime you park outside your own house, sometimes you don’t – no big deal.
Except – as described by an earlier poster – some decide to pave/tarmac the little frontage thay have. Which then buggers up anyone else parking around the overlap (not to mention that blowing away lots of front gardens looks shite) and you actually lose parking area.
As an aside, a fair proportion of those that have paved their frontage also try to park a car that’s *too* bloody large and actually obstructs the not exactly wide) pavement where the corner sticks out. Now, where’s my chainsaw…..