Knowledge Network

Parking

1. Residential parking in new developments

Kent and Essex have returned to specifying a minimum number of spaces. Others are applying the Residential Parking Research for PPS3.

The IHE Parking debate on 28 January 2010 bought together key players on parking standards, Bob White, Kent CC and Keith Lawson, Essex CC with Stephen Hardy, Dorset CC in the chair.

The main messages were:

  • Good design is essential to optimise parking provision tailored to particular sites
  • Highways and Planning must work together to deliver realistic design
  • Restricted parking is not a modal shift tool: residents find (unsuitable) ways round
  • LAs' parking policies should be evidence-led: collect your data
  • Avoid design by the book; be creative
  • Garage size should be part of parking policies.

What are your guidelines?

'Predict and provide'?

or, travel plans and minimum provision?

View the 28 January IHE parking debate presentations here.

Download the powerpoint presentations here.

2. Parking Standards

View Essex's Standards (September 2009).
View CSS Wales' Wales Parking Standards (September 2009)
PPS3 - Parking: Research paper using census data to predict car demand
View Scotland's policy(Section 171) (February 2010)
Birmingham City has set zones and sticks to PPG13 for the suburbs (May 2010)

Dorset Residential parking study

Launch event in Poundbury on 28 April 2010 will explore the "calculator" methodology developed to translate data nto action.

3. Non residential developments

PPS4 published 29 December 2009 requires LAs to set maximum parking sandards (See Policy EC.8)

Parking: Minimising signs and lines

Implementing restricted zones in

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