Regular feature: Issue 502 5 Sep 2008
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Car use, Government policy guidance (PPG, PPS etc.), Housing / New towns, Parking, Planning / Land use / LDFs, Sustainable transport, England
Fears of parking ‘free for all’ if DCLG scraps national standards
Government proposals to scrap national maximum parking standards in England and encourage office development outside town centres have split opinion within the planning and business communities. Andrew Forster sifts through the responses to the Department of Communities and Local Government’s consultation
Developers and many local authorities have welcomed plans to relax the ‘town centre first’ policy for office developments
Plans to scrap national maximum parking standards have divided opinionBy Andrew Forster
More than 300 organisations from across the public and private sectors have responded to the Government’s draft plans to relax planning rules in England in order to foster economic development. Two of the most hotly debated parts of the proposals concern transport: namely, the proposed abolition of national maximum parking standards and a relaxation of the ‘town centre first’ policy for new office development.
Though originating from the Department for Communities and Local...
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