| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Full 6 day CPZ for Brook Rd South | |
| Posted by: | Adam Beamish | |
| Date/Time: | 25/03/14 15:59:00 |
| I often read comments, both on this forum and with planning application representations, regarding insufficient off street parking provision within new developments, and based on my own personal experience it's not something I agree with. At Holland Gardens there's effectively 1 parking space per flat, and in 12 years of living there I have never once see the car park which serves my building full, regardless of the time of day or night, and some of the flats are occupied by people without cars so the spaces are permanently vacant. Visitor parking provision at the entrance (3 spaces) is pathetic, but this only leads to occasional, short-term silly parking within the development itself, and if I ever have anyone staying for any length of time with a car they can usually park that car within one of the unused spaces within the underground car park. Ultimately it all comes down to personal choice, and to me common sense dictates that if you are looking to move in somewhere and you must have a car, then you are not going to choose somewhere which doesn't have off-street parking. As Alex says, if the area within/near to a development is part of a CPZ, and residents of the development can't apply for/obtain an on-street permit (as is par for the course now whenever a new development is approved), then regardless of the hours of operation of that CPZ it makes people think twice about whether or not to move in, because effectively many aspects of their day to day life will be controlled by the parking restrictions. |