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Car Parking
Parking suffers from being treated as a footnote of housing. But research regularly shows that parking is the aspect of layout design that provokes most comment from residents. Where cars are parked is also key to whether a development has active streets, crucial to making a place feel alive and safe for those living there.
Car Parking: What works where toolkit
English Partnerships’ remit includes the delivery of high quality housing and as part of our support for creating sustainable places we created a toolkit for parking, with Design for Homes.
The Car Parking toolkit analyses how appropriate and well designed parking can reconcile policy and consumer aspirations.
The main aims of this publication are:
- Identify the widest range of parking options available
- Review the options in relation to density of housing in a range of locations – central, urban and suburban
- Present 24 British case studies to illustrate design and layout principles
- Evaluate the parking options against the following values:
- The quality of the neighbourhood, or creating a ‘good address’
- Convenience of access and use between parking space and home, for residents and visitors alike
- Safe routes for people going to and from the parking space
- Security of parking areas
- Efficiency of land and construction costs.
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To download the Car Parking: What works where toolkit visit the Publications page.
To order a CD ROM or a hard copy please complete the Publications order form. The toolkit is available on the Policy Guidance CD ROM. |
