Planning Permission and parking spaces

[fourtwentyfour]

Is a private parking space required for each dwelling in a new build terrace before permission can be granted? England.

[patrickmacqueen]

Certainly not in London, where if anything the rules are designed to limit parking spaces rather than require them. I would check the Local Plan for where you live, which will probably address the issue.

[anniesdad]

Around here yes, off road parking spaces are required, a certain ratio is specified per bedroom. BUT they don’t specify what you have to be parking. A nice work around is to provide parking spaces for bicycles!!! Provide a bike shelter, Much less space required and it ticks loads of boxes for being green.

[didds]

This can only be an increasing issue. Outside of larger towns with decent public transport systems a car is virtually a necessity to get to work/college and back if nothing else. We cannot be alone with being a family of five adults (3 adult children) living in a familial home all of which require cars we all work and/or study in different places at different times. Eldest son has to go to South wales twice a week, younger son needs to be at work ten miles away for 0600 and to return circa 1500, daughter has two jobs in different directions, mornings and evenings, wife has to use her own vehicle for her job (NHS community) - I work from home but a vehicle is "handy" for doing the day time chores and errands that the busy working family cant attend to during the hours that businesses locally are open.

didds

[bruncher]

The variations in permissions and restrictions is wide. I bought a flat in a new block which had one space provided per flat. It was a condition in the lease that no resident would be allowed to apply for street parking in the Controlled Parking Zone within which the building was situated. In London it is increasingly the case that there is no parking at all.