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Unallocated parking in front court for each pair of semi-detached properties.
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Unallocated parking in the front court is softened by landscaping, and set away from the front of the dwellings ensuring that it doesn't block lateral pedestrian movement along the front of the terrace
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The front courts at Waterside have been designed to be a threshold between the carriageway and the dwelling, fulfilling a function beyond being merely a parking solution.
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In other parts of the development parking control measures have been implemented, such as double-yellow lines and brash bay labelling.
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The landscaping treatment to rear-courts is of high quality, softening what can otherwise be a problematic parking solution. The shared surface approach to the rear court - along the frontage of a row of dwellings - stops the access to it becoming too abrupt a deviation from the carriageway.
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The approach to rear-court parking is well considered, with a well-designed layout of dwellings arranged along a shared-surface access lane creating a feeling of space and open-ness.
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Discrete, single on-plot parking bays are included, although it is unclear as to whether they are supposed to be used in this way. Note the lack of dropped kerb.
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Bays are marked with granite pieces in gravel surface - high quality materials make the surfaces that a person interacts with pleasurable to use. Relatively cheap materials are used in a well-composed manner to divide bound-gravel from mettled surface., which is an effective route to impact.
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Good quality landscaping is used to soften the edge of parking courts.
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Although not secure cycle storage, cycle parking is integrated with the landscaping strategy.
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Bollards are used to prevent cars being parked on landscaped areas that serve to widen the feel of the carriageway and provide a buffer zone between the dwellings and the road.
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Space submitted by Sam Brown
8 October 2013