Knowledge Network

Parking

1. Parking Standards

PPG13 updated and parking limits abolished (January 2011). Read a comparison between the old and new PPG13 from Halcrow.
View Scotland's policy(Section 171) setting maximum limits (February 2010)
View Essex's Standards
View Adept Wales' Wales Parking Standards
PPS3 - Parking: Research paper using census data to predict car demand
Read Dorset's Residential Parking Study which applies PPS3 research.
Birmingham City has set zones and sticks to PPG13 for the suburbs (May 2010)
View BPA's wishlist: the Master Plan for Parking
Surrey CC sets minimum standards
Comment on Poole's parking standards (to 7 February 2011)

Note: On 27 March 2012, PPG 13 was replaced by the National Planning Policy Framework. - Download here

2. Residential parking

A guidance note from IHE and CIHT (April 2012)

The guide is a joint collaboration with CIHT and has been overseen by the IHE Parking Group chaired by Chris Saunders FIHE of Reading BC. Bob White of Kent CC was principal author.
Download a copy here.

Residential parking in new developments

Kent and Essex have returned to specifying a minimum number of spaces. Others are applying the Residential Parking Research for PPS3. in January 2011 DCLG abolished parking limits.

The IHE Parking debate on 28 January 2010 bought together key players on parking standards, Bob White, Kent CC and Keith Lawson, Essex CC with Stephen Hardy, Dorset CC in the chair.

The main messages were:

Good design is essential to optimise parking provision tailored to particular sites
Highways and Planning must work together to deliver realistic design
Restricted parking is not a modal shift tool: residents find (unsuitable) ways round
LAs' parking policies should be evidence-led: collect your data
Avoid design by the book; be creative
Garage size should be part of parking policies.

What are your guidelines?

'Predict and provide'?

or, travel plans and minimum provision?

View the 28 January IHE parking debate presentations here.

Download the powerpoint presentations here.

3. Non residential developments

PPS4 published 29 December 2009 requires LAs to set maximum parking sandards (See Policy EC.8)

PPG13 amended in January 2011 to delete policy on parking charges.