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On Saturday, 9 February 2019 09:35:31 UTC, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
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. 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.

Not all.

Around here, social housing is provided in purposely "car free
development"

http://www.carfreehousing.org/whatis.html

This means some local roads away from the complexes are even more
stressed with parking conflicts between near/far residents and
commuters, and requirements to get a parking permit to park outside ya
own house are ever-increasing.

Next move - ye pay extra rates to park in ya own drive...

In already built up places with no room for the cars, there is simply no
solution, unless one goes to the expense of constructing under-road
parking tunnels. Any other proposed solution is not really one.

On holidday in Amsterdam, the canal outside our hotel had been drained and
a multi-storey car park was being built downwards. The canal would be
refilled with water after construction finished.

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