CAR PARKING STANDARDS PART 1 OF 2 SAFONAU PARCIO ...

Supplementary Planning Guidance - Appendix 1Parking StandardsA1 PreambleA1.1 These Parking Standards should be read in conjunction with individual RegionalTransport Plans, Local Transport Plans, Unitary Development Plans, LocalDevelopment Plans and Supplementary Planning Guidance. Parking requirementsare listed according to land use and location and they list requirements forcommercial vehicles, cars, motor cycles and cycles. The use of travel plans and thesustainability of new development are also addressed. The Parking Standards willbe material to decisions on individual planning applications and will be used as atechnical reference document.A2PurposeA2.1 These Parking Standards seek to ensure a transparent and consistent approach to theprovision of parking, submission of travel plans and sustainability considerations that willinform developers, designers and builders what is expected of them and from them at anearly stage of the development process.A3ApplicationA3.1 These Parking Standards will inform observations made by Highway Authorities onapplications received for Planning Permission.A4Strategic FrameworkA4.1 This document provides detailed parking requirements according to land use and type ofdevelopment. It has been prepared by CSS Wales on behalf of all 22 Welsh UnitaryAuthorities and the four regional transport consortia, Sewta, SWWITCH, Taith and TraCC.Its aim is:a) To assist developers, designers and builders in the preparation and submission ofplanning applications.b) To achieve a common approach to the provision of vehicle parking facilitiesassociated with new development and change of use.A4.2 The underlying rationale for the South Wales Parking Guidelines Revised Edition of 1993prepared by the Standing Conference on Regional Policy and the correspondingdocumentation relating to North Wales was to provide sufficient parking to avoid the needfor vehicles to park on-street and thereby cause congestion, danger and visual intrusion.A4.3 Since 1993, fundamental changes in national planning framework and transport policy havetaken place with the publication of PPG 13 (in England) in 1994, the Environment Act 1995,the Road Traffic Reduction Acts 1997 and 1998, A New Deal for Transport: Better forEveryone and Transporting Wales into the Future (1998), Planning Policy Wales in 2002,Planning Policy Wales Technical Advice Note 18 (TAN 18) in 2007 and Manual for Streetsin 2007. In particular, paragraph 8.4.2 of Planning Policy Wales 2002 states that ‘CarParking Provision is a major influence on the choice of means of transport and the patternof development. Local authorities should ensure that new developments provide lowerlevels of parking than have generally been achieved in the past. Minimum parkingstandards are no longer appropriate. Local authorities should develop an integratedstrategy on parking to support the overall transport and locational policies of the UDP.’ TAN18 supplements Planning Policy Wales and states that ‘Maximum car parking standardsshould be used at regional and local level as a form of demand management’ and, that fornew development, regard should be given to alternative transport modes, economicobjectives, public and shared parking arrangements.July 2009 5