Research

Executive Summary

Research demonstrates no one is happy with car parking, even when they have more bays than they might need. Why? Because the design of our parking doesn't suit residents on a plot-by-plot basis. What can we do to make residents less frustrated?

Foreword

Car parking is like holiday entitlement. You can always find people who will tell you they don’t have enough, but few will admit they...

Introduction

Ever since the advent of mass car ownership, parking has been a fraught issue in the design of new housing estates. The question of where to allow cars to park, how many cars to allow, how to...

1.0 Parking and the Home

The history of housing design in the 20th century is also a history of our relationship with love for — and fear of — the car...

2.0 The Kent Data

Since August 2007 Kent County Council has been undertaking surveys of new housing schemes in the county. The data, which has been made available to us, includes...

3.0 Resident Views

In order to understand the background to the case-study site observations, a door-to-door survey of residents was undertaken along with two mini focus groups...

4.0 Case Studies

The data on 402 schemes in Kent described in the previous chapter suggests a high level of dissatisfaction with the level of parking on new estates in the county...

5.0 Conclusions & Recommendations

We have shown in this research that the problem on suburban housing estates is not that there are too few parking spaces, there are in fact a surplus...

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