I chose to live where I do because it is convenient for work, schools, shopping, and social life. And I’m pretty sure that applies to most of the people who live around me.
I choose to live where i do to get away from all those things
Very few chose to live here because they don’t own a car.
That is subtly different to what I'm saying, which is that you would be more likely to consider living somewhere with no parking if you didn't own a car. If you did own a car, then surely living in a home without any parking is going to be less attractive, thus naturally skewing the demographic towards non-drivers. Does that make sense?
The study I linked to bears this out. If you look at the housing survey document, fig. 2.10 on page 39 shows that households owning no cars are twice as likely to have no access to adequate parking.
Parking was not necessarily an issue for all households because 23% did not have a car. In general, the more cars a household had, the more likely they were to have a garage or other off street parking. About 6% of households had 3 or more cars and 91% of these had a garage or off street parking provision. Around 14% of households with one car and 7% with two cars had no or inadequate street parking
I think everyone must know people who live in town or city and don't even own a car - public transport services their daily needs, and they could hire a car if they need one. However, public transport should be cheap, reliable and comfortable for it to be an effective alternative, and I believe we lost our way many years ago.
...that doesn’t mean I don’t want the convenience of a car, and it’s infuriating that current planning seems hell-bent on taking that convenience away by making EV ownership very difficult. Maybe that’s the aim.
I agree, and I can understand your frustration, but the biggest barriers to home charging are primarily practical considerations. I guess that once fast commercial charging infrastructure is better established, it will become less of a headache, but it will increase the running costs for those who cannot charge at home. The ability to refuel your car while it sits on your drive is a relatively new concept, and unfortunately there's currently no convenient answer for those without those facilities.