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Title: Considering buying a parking space
Post by: STEMO on 12 July 2016, 18:50:35
£20 a month, what do you reckon?
Title: Re: Considering buying a parking space
Post by: Nick W on 12 July 2016, 18:52:41
Bargain.


Go for it.
Title: Re: Considering buying a parking space
Post by: BazaJT on 12 July 2016, 18:54:37
Depends really on why you want it and how much use you'll make of it.Other than that a bargain.How will you prevent unauthorised use?
Title: Re: Considering buying a parking space
Post by: STEMO on 12 July 2016, 18:58:03
We live in an end terrace on a busy road. There is enough space on the side road adjacent to our house, but every bastid in the area considers it fair game. When wifey rings to say she is on her way home, I have to check if there's a space for her. If not, I have to shift my car on to the main drag and give her my space.
I've just got an insurance quote for a fifteen year old fiesta, £160, tax is about £80, so £240 all in or £20 a month. I would park it on the side street and move it when she came home, solving the parking problem and royally pissing off a few people. (The second bit is the part I like best :)).

What do you reckon?
Title: Re: Considering buying a parking space
Post by: BazaJT on 12 July 2016, 19:07:12
Parking gets like that on the road where I live,with people who don't actually live on this road using it for overnight parking etc.I've got the Elite parked across the road from my bungalow[there's no parking on my side of the road]and I have to park the V70 about quarter mile away and my step-granddaughters place!Next question would be Where will you park the Fiesta once moved to allow swmbo to park up?
Title: Re: Considering buying a parking space
Post by: STEMO on 12 July 2016, 19:11:19
Parking gets like that on the road where I live,with people who don't actually live on this road using it for overnight parking etc.I've got the Elite parked across the road from my bungalow[there's no parking on my side of the road]and I have to park the V70 about quarter mile away and my step-granddaughters place!Next question would be Where will you park the Fiesta once moved to allow swmbo to park up?
On the main drag, if someone takes the mirror of it, I won't care.
That will be the furthest it travels. ;D
Title: Re: Considering buying a parking space
Post by: BazaJT on 12 July 2016, 19:14:01
In that case sounds very reasonable to me-especially the bit about peeing people off ;D
Title: Re: Considering buying a parking space
Post by: STEMO on 12 July 2016, 19:14:49
In that case sounds very reasonable to me-especially the bit about peeing people off ;D
Oh yes, my favourite part of it.  ;D
Title: Re: Considering buying a parking space
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 12 July 2016, 19:29:20
I used to live on a terraced street in Bristol where parking was a nightmare.  One of the neighbours used to put his wheelie bin on the street outside his house and I used to regularly move it and park there.  ;D
Title: Re: Considering buying a parking space
Post by: flyer 0712 on 12 July 2016, 20:50:11
£20  per  month is cheap..down here...south.....people let out their driveways for £20 per week,,and you are permited to use it from around 9am but must be removed by 5pm....
Title: Re: Considering buying a parking space
Post by: Bigron on 12 July 2016, 21:23:27
I once paid £10 for the use of a driveway in Mile End, East London, for just one day, 9 to 5, and that is considered cheap!

Ron.
Title: Re: Considering buying a parking space
Post by: Mister Rog on 13 July 2016, 10:06:18
We live in an end terrace on a busy road.


Oh come on ! We all know you live in a gated mansion with  long gravel drive, with a full time driver that keeps your cars near the servants entrance.  ::)

£20 a month is cheap, even down here in the land of sheep and rain  :y
Title: Re: Considering buying a parking space
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 13 July 2016, 12:02:45
It should be a requirement of law that every new house has off-street parking for at least two cars.

Doubt if that is possible in central London. :-\ :-\ It always amazes me that people in London can own a multi-million pound property and yet still have to park their  car(s) on the road.
Title: Re: Considering buying a parking space
Post by: Kevin Wood on 13 July 2016, 12:28:11
It amazes me that people in central London bother with cars.

Title: Re: Considering buying a parking space
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 13 July 2016, 14:18:17
It amazes me that people in cars bother with central London.

 ;)
Title: Re: Considering buying a parking space
Post by: Entwood on 13 July 2016, 14:36:48
It amazes me that people in cars bother with central London.

 ;)

:)
Title: Re: Considering buying a parking space
Post by: Kevin Wood on 13 July 2016, 15:11:39
It amazes me that people in cars bother with central London.

 ;)

:)
Good points, well presented. :y
Title: Re: Considering buying a parking space
Post by: Mister Rog on 13 July 2016, 16:43:00
It should be a requirement of law that every new house has off-street parking for at least two cars.

Doubt if that is possible in central London. :-\ :-\ It always amazes me that people in London can own a multi-million pound property and yet still have to park their  car(s) on the road.

It certainly is a planning requirement in many places, number of off-street places related to number of bedrooms.
Title: Re: Considering buying a parking space
Post by: ronnyd on 13 July 2016, 21:57:06
When you see rows and rows of terraced houses in our towns and cities there,s no wonder there are parking issues.
Title: Re: Considering buying a parking space
Post by: Nick W on 13 July 2016, 22:11:15
When you see rows and rows of terraced houses in our towns and cities there,s no wonder there are parking issues.


Yes, parking for two cars was an important consideration when this terraced house was built in 1913.


It has been a requirement for planning permission for some time.
Title: Re: Considering buying a parking space
Post by: Rods2 on 14 July 2016, 00:23:08
It should be a requirement of law that every new house has off-street parking for at least two cars.

Doubt if that is possible in central London. :-\ :-\ It always amazes me that people in London can own a multi-million pound property and yet still have to park their  car(s) on the road.

Two Jags stopped that as part of his war on the motorist, by changing the planning rules to 1 or 0 cars maximum allocation on modern housing estates. It is a nightmare for my daughter as she uses her one space, so no parking for visitors and no other parking nearby. :( This makes thing unnecessarily isolationist, :(