London Plan sets out requirements for car-free housing and more cycle parking

Sadiq Khan’s vision for London includes new maximum standards for car parking and minimum standards for bike parking in a bid to encourage more people to cycle and walk

Housing developments will be car-free except for disabled people in parts of the capital with the best public transport connections, under new measures announced by London Mayor Sadiq Khan.

This is among the proposals to reduce parking capacity in the mayor’s draft London Plan, published this week. The draft states that residential car parking would not be linked to unit size, so that parking spaces would no longer go up as unit sizes increase.

Meanwhile, office developments in central...

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