Consultation
– Draft Parking Standards for New Developments Supplementary Planning Document
- 071122 SC
Good afternoon,
We are writing to inform you that an eight-week consultation on the
Parking Standards for New Developments Supplementary Planning Document will
begin at 10am on Tuesday 8th November 2022, with the deadline
for comments being 10am on Thursday 5th January 2023.
Background
A well planned and managed approach to parking can help make our local
communities better places to live, work and visit whilst helping deliver our
commitment to tackling climate change. One of the ways in which we can make a
positive difference is through effective parking provision for all vehicle
types in new developments. We want to encourage more walking and cycling for
shorter journeys, and for longer journeys encourage more sustainable options
such as using public transport. Ensuring that routes are attractive and useable
for pedestrians and cyclists is key to achieving this. Providing
sufficient parking for all types of vehicles so that parked vehicles do not
dominate the street scene or prevent access for pedestrians and cyclists is
therefore very important.
Parking Standards for New Developments is a new Supplementary Planning
Document (SPD) which builds upon the parking related policies adopted in the
Local Plan. The document covers cycle parking, car parking, disabled parking,
powered two-wheeler parking and operational parking requirements. It sets out
the number of parking spaces required for new developments in both residential
and commercial settings. The document brings together several existing
standards into one document. Detail is provided on the types of parking that
the Council wants developers to provide and the types of parking that have
proven to be less successful and will therefore not be accepted.
Details of the Consultation
An electronic copy of the draft document and details of how to respond
to the consultation will be available to view on the Consultations page of our
website, once the consultation begins on the 8th November
at 10am.
Alternatively, a printed copy of the draft document
can be viewed at every library in Central Bedfordshire, during their usual
opening hours. Written responses can be sent to:
Strategic Transport, C/O Strategic Growth
Central Bedfordshire Council
Priory House, Monks Walk
Chicksands, Shefford
Bedfordshire, SG17 5TQ
Kind regards,
Strategic Transport Team
Central Bedfordshire Council, Priory House, Monks Walk,
Chicksands , Shefford, Bedfordshire, SG17 5TQ
Direct Dial 0300 300 8860 - Internal 78860 – Email – Strategic.Transport@centralBedfordshire.gov.uk
Please engage and
wade in and support us where you feel you may:
Dear Colleagues,
ERTA main interest is regarding protection of lands
and an incremental progression to fostering a new Railway Station alias
Ampthill Parkway Station. This would help mop up traffic and parking issues
emanating from developments across a wider geographic area upwards of 70, 000
population plus the feed off the M1 via A507 to Flitwick. The configuration of
roads at Flitwick with a triple stack car park does not lend to easy road spill
proliferation and congestion, hazards and delays are likely amidst the chaos of
turning out and commuting growth to. Wixams will deal with populations
imminent and north of including parts of North Bedfordshire via bypasses, so
all at and south of Wixams including the extensive Marston Vale, in bids to get
rail to London will commute south - landing at Flitwick. Ampthill could share
the load and more evenly distribute the growth in the Central Beds area as well
as regenerate and inform sustainable footfall, spend and cycling/walking
options in and around Ampthill as a place in its own right. Not all have or
want to be tied to cars and parking with no spare land is an acute issue only
to be exacerbated in coming years. Elsewhere, reviewing parking at local
stations on Marston Vale, East Bedfordshire is also worth bearing in mind and
avoiding parking on verges west of Arlesey Station should be avoided.
Developing is sprawling fast and so we need a commitment to protect lands and
work with us to nurture the ground-level conditions for an Ampthill Parkway
Station. In leisure terms, the scope is Wrest Park to the East and Woburn to
the West and all in between. Better cycle provision for central Flitwick
to/from central Ampthill should be looked at. Our ERTA Ampthill-Flitwick
Transport Forum is open to all to discuss these things - see our website for
details: https://ertarail.co.uk/events/ We do need
a greater appreciation of these things in general, not just specific
development related. Unless we protect lands west of the Midland Main Line and
adopt policies to negotiate relocation packages to the east of Midland Main
Line north of Froghall Road, east of Fordfield Road and West of A507 - keeping
accesses 'open', we throw away any Flitwick relief, growth absorption and
compound issues, not ameliorate them. Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Richard Pill
ERTA Chairman
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