Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Residential developments with inadequate parking | |
Posted by: | Adam Beamish | |
Date/Time: | 03/02/11 00:02:00 |
Jane, this isn't 'new policy', PPG13 dates back to 2001. And your suggestion that no-one can buy a flat unless able to prove they don't have a car isn't one that could ever be imposed upon the granting of a planning permission - for starters how would it be enforced ? (e.g. Council Officer having to go round the development on a regular basis to ascertain who lives there and then having to check with the DVLA to see if they own a vehicle etc). Usually the nearest you get to this is that, if a development is in or near to a CPZ, as part of the permission the developer will agree that no-one in the flats can obtain a parking permit (Council Parking Depts kept a record of all such developments) so that if an occupier of the developer owns a car and can't park it within the development then they may as well not have the car. Although even this has a flaw, for example and as with a recent objection I lodged against such a development which proposed such an agreement, this is pretty useless if the operational hours of the CPZ are only something like 9am - 5pm Mon - Fri, as many occupiers would be at work themselves at that time and thus wouldn't need a permit anyway !). As an aside, I generally find developers want to provide more car parking, because buyers are often reluctant to buy new properties with little/no off-street parking provision, so I can't agree with your swipe at developers - I do rather tire of this stereotypical view of the poor local residents against the nasty rich developers. |