Unfortunately living anywhere close to London or in it denies you the opportunity of a driveway or garage if you want to live anywhere near civilisation. Unless of course you can afford £2k a month to throw at some rent or mortgage
Yes it parks on the road, and it will over winter. It is a quiet dead ended side road though which I doubt a gritter will come anywhere near - although I will check with the council come any snow.
I guess though my point was, reading about people putting cars away soon, have you looked out the window? the sun is out, no sign of snow for some time, ok it will rain but it does that all year round, gritters only come out for like a couple of weeks out the year. Had my brand new Scirocco over winter in Putney near a main road and didnt get anything on it - it was fine, and that was black as well and would have shown up and issues.