Parking outside my house

And if they want to keep it like that they are perfectly entitled to but then they must also maintain it and not expect the council to do so (the effect of “taking in charge”).

It's not expensive though…

Fact of the matter is that once it's taken in charge by the local authority, it becomes a public space, with public roads. It's no longer a private estate.

And what that means with regard to parking is that what was originally intended "to be used to enhance the residential amenities of the houses" is now available to all, whether they live on that exact road in that estate, or the next road over, or a mile away, or ten miles away, or anywhere else.

Any member of the public can park a vehicle on a public road, subject of course to the general laws on parking, and any local bye-laws re. pay parking and so forth. Nobody has an automatic right to a parking space on a public road outside their house, or the right to say who else can and can't park there.

Parking in someone's driveway would be considered trespassing.

Yes but that's a civil matter, and there isn't much you can actually do about it. You can't block them it or prevent them from leaving if they ask you to let them do so.

I have fought and won the cone war.

Same issue with people parking outside my gaff, and I need the space myself.

After a few attempts, the cones were being moved aside and parked across.

I am talking big red / white cones.

I filled them with concrete.

Some van driver moved them and was parking.

I solved this problem …

I coated the cones with cooking oil.

Nobody is parking there now.

Of all the things that didn't happen, this one didn't happen the most.

Yes. But one could equally argue that a householder who tries to police who can and can't park on a public road outside their house, in a spot to which that householder has absolutely no right, has no regard either for others and how they need to park somewhere.

I used to live on a street myself that had both a church and a school on it. There were many times I'd return home from being somewhere, and have to park quite a distance away. I accepted it as part and parcel of living on such a street. I wouldn't even have dreamed of putting out cones or taking any other measure to protect "my" space.

Buy a cheap car OP and park it there. It will need tax insurance and nct.

I know somewhere I have to go occasionally . Someone has a small gate no drive but a no parking sign on gate . I have parked there a couple of times when there was nowhere else . If there was somewhere else I wouldn't but not because I recognise they own the road but I couldn't be bothered listening to them if they complained .

I know , just couldn't be bothered listening if they complained . I avoid if possible

Interesting thread.
For information I'm in a D15 'taken in hand' estate with no driveways and have no car myself.

I think there is 2 different angles
a) what you are entitled to do, i.e., you are clearly allowed park in front of my house and I have no say in the matter.
b) what you could/should do - which is mention it to the homeowner, tell them what address you live, drop a piece of paper with your phone number through the letter box. Because you don't know if todays the day that an elderly relative is going to be dropped off in a wheelchair or a new 3 piece sofa is going to be delivered, in either case easy access from car/van to house would be handy.

I've experienced both - the neighbour who asks me every time, whilst alternatively at Christmas there was a car of unknown ownership effectively dumped outside my door from 20th Dec to the middle of Jan (never once moved so presumably someone heading home to a place abroad). The latter was somewhat awkward when I had Christmas visitors.
I've also had someone attempt to use 'my space' to put their large delivery truck on a permanent basis - by day 5 I'd had enough of that and took the step of placing all my wheelie bins in a position to prevent it. It was a 'light blocker' and being an end-house was also somewhat dangerous.

For something that happened in the UK to a friend of yours, you seem to know a lot about what the council there thought.

It's a bullshit story!