Parking nightmare.

Our village has mainly small, stone built, mill cottages that never had parking spaces or garages and so parking on the road is the only option. But, like in so many other areas, building sites have sprung up all around the village. 95% of the newbuilds are large family houses with 3/4/5 bedrooms; 1 garage and no pavements leading to any of the properties. Because the houses are so large,they often have 2 or more cars. And 1 garage. This has led to cars being parked anywhere they can fit, often blocking access for emergency vehicles and refuse lorries. It can take up to 20 minutes to drive the length of our village because of the huge amount of cars on the road, often double parked, and also because it becomes deadlocked when a bus or lorry is trying to squeeze through and can't pass. Don't know what the answer is but I wish someone did.

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I’ve just parked in a supermarket car park to do my mid-week shop. When I came back to my small car, parked either side were huge 4-wheel drives, and parked on the other side behind me was yet another. They were all too long for the parking spaces which made it so difficult for me to get out of my space. I had to go straight back to avoid hitting the cars either side, but was then in danger of hitting the one behind in the opposite line. It resulted in me shuffling back and forth on full lock to ‘escape’
Isn’t it about time that supermarkets had spaces for small cars only?

We have restricted parking here - residents passes and those without limited to two hours. The traffic wardens are red hot. I often watch as families park here, read the signs and shrug. When they arrive back 3-4 hours later they have a ticket.

I even tried to warn one group but ...

There re 25 flats in the block in which I now live. 23 of them have garages on he ground floor. There is also a residents parking area at the rear for visitors, etc with about ten parking spaces.
I looked at a flat here about four years ago, one without a garage, asked the Management Company if one of the parking places could be allocated to that flat - this was refused, so I did not purchase that flat.
Parking is expensive on roadway here, although I do have a blue badge. When I looked at flats, not only did I want one with a garage, but also one with good visitors parking.
At my last house, in a small cul-de-sac, the very first thing I had done when I moved there, was to organise off-street parking in front of that house. It was some of the best money I spent -and so often, I thanked myself for having done that. That car, parked on my forecourt, became an extension of my living space.
My daughter's house in London is also in a cul-de-sac, close to a school. When her little girl started school, she needed to return from work most days to collect her. Parking was so bad at those times, that the only way of dealing with it was to pay for her to have a dropped kerb and off-street parking on her forecourt to prevent people parking in front of her house.
I am baffled at the number of new properties (houses and flats) being passed by Planning to be built without any parking spaces for them. whereas, I understand the need to cut down on our car usage, this is not the way to do that. Need to have an excellent and cheap public transport in place firstly.

We've got 2 cars - one on the drive, one on the street (outside our home), and almost every house has got at least one car. The houses were built in 1930, so no garages and no space to build any.

No we don’t have problem with parking, we have a adequate drive,and rest of the houses down out road also have. Nobody parks on the road, outside their houses, most of the families on our road have AC that have left home so mostly 2 cars on each of the drives