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Parking Standards for New Developments Draft (Nov 2022)
Parking Standards for New Developments Draft (Nov 2022)
Representation ID: 16032
Received: 07/12/2022
Respondent: Malcolm Manser
Dear Sirs.
I understand you are looking for thoughts and ideas for newbuild project parking.
From my side street parking in Leighton Buzzard is a disaster with most areas of the town a slave to the motorcar.
With current planning approvals the new estates in the area are going the same way for the very reason the many new houses have off road parking for 2 or 3 cars but one behind the other not side by side. Who is going move one or two if your car is closest to the garage. Answer nobody. Instead cars will be parked in the road causing further congestion and holdups.
While on the subject it is unbelievable how cars are allowed to park on main routes throughout the town reducing traffic flow to a single alternate lane.
The answer is to restrict parking where road width is limited and provide off road residents only parking areas.
Furthermore where road width allows for a single line of parked cars introduce a system used by the French for many years whereby cars park on one side of the road on even days of the month and the other side of the road on odd days of the month to stop vehicles parking on both sides of the road causing an obstruction to smooth traffic flow.
I hope these ideas are useful and helpful.
Best regards
Dear Sirs.
I understand you are looking for thoughts and ideas for newbuild project parking.
From my side street parking in Leighton Buzzard is a disaster with most areas of the town a slave to the motorcar.
With current planning approvals the new estates in the area are going the same way for the very reason the many new houses have off road parking for 2 or 3 cars but one behind the other not side by side. Who is going move one or two if your car is closest to the garage. Answer nobody. Instead cars will be parked in the road causing further congestion and holdups.
While on the subject it is unbelievable how cars are allowed to park on main routes throughout the town reducing traffic flow to a single alternate lane.
The answer is to restrict parking where road width is limited and provide off road residents only parking areas.
Furthermore where road width allows for a single line of parked cars introduce a system used by the French for many years whereby cars park on one side of the road on even days of the month and the other side of the road on odd days of the month to stop vehicles parking on both sides of the road causing an obstruction to smooth traffic flow.
I hope these ideas are useful and helpful.
Best regards
