ParkatmyHouse is a British service which allows you to rent parking at someone’s house or business (for example, in their garage or on their drive). You could use this to store your car or as parking for you to use while you are at work. The site is free to list a parking space on, but it costs £5 a month to correspond with those wishing to rent it (but you only need to pay this if you know someone’s interested and you wish to pursue it).

The site seems to be quite reliant on Google Maps. To find a parking space, you enter your postcode/town, which the site goes to on Google Maps. It then displays spaces in that view. There are not many spaces so far, I found none in my county whatsoever.

Parking can be fairly cheap, at about £40 a month or so, but can become expensive (£500 a week in the City of London!). Of course, these spaces may not actually exist so the site has a feedback system, like eBay’s, in place. Still £40 a month is much cheaper than pay and display!

The site has received quite a lot of media coverage, such as this in The Guardian, and I’m sure it will do nothing but grow.

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