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On 09/02/2019 08:57, alan_m wrote:
On 09/02/2019 08:19, Brian Gaff wrote:
If your road is anything like mine its a nightmare for parked cars and
the
local fire teams tell me that if they have to attend a fire here many
cars
will get damaged. Half the problem is that the powers that be want to
stop
cars, but the car makers want to sell them but the local planning regs do
not make sufficient parking for the number of houses, flats etc they
build
so you can see the result all over the country.


I think local planning does make provisions for parking in new builds.


Never enough though.

For years they only allowed one space per household on many new estates
- to deliberately "encourage" people not to have cars. Of course that
was useless as most couldn't get to and from their workplaces; carry a
week's shopping for a family; get the kids to and from clubs and the
like without.

They may now be making sure that there is more parking now, but even
then it is often only two spaces and frequently one in front of the
other, so one car is blocked in by the other and to avoid that they park
one on the road still.

In reality, many households have a husband and wife, both working and
needing cars. These days, there are often one or more grown-up children
there as well, who cannot afford their own home yet, but also need cars
to be able to work and have a social life, while they build up a
sufficient deposit for their own home.

The problem is in streets built before car ownership was common place
especially where many houses were converted to flats for multiple
occupancy. I believe that my councils planning department will no longer
approve conversion of a house to flats in many areas unless the
developer makes provision for off road parking.


That is a good move!

SteveW