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[email protected] · September 16th 16, 09:03 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Tim Watts) wrote:

On 16/09/16 07:09, Roland Perry wrote:
In message
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tember.org, at 15:44:37 on Thu, 15 Sep 2016, Recliner
remarked:

I also assume they won't get any basement car parking.

Unless they own a train.

I wonder how that will go down? I assume the sort of person who pays
millions for a flat prefers car parking to direct access to the
District line.

There's not much parking in many new developments these days. For
example the most expensive new flats in Cambridge specifically had less
than one space (which cost extra) per apartment.

In a lot of places it seems to be a condition of planning to allocate
1 space per property.

I do not know why we don't do what the Chinese do - new block of
flats (even if 3 storeys) gets underground car parking.

Not only, but in one block I visited, each allocated space was
actually a garage with roller shutter door. Very sensible.

The point Roland was making was that many urban developments have fewer than
one parking space per flat, in many cases far fewer than 1. It's many years
since the maximum parking for developments in central Cambridge was set at 1
space per dwelling.

I can't think of a more sustainable location for people to live without a
car than 55 Broadway. Cycle parking could be an issue though, especially as
the basement space isn't available.

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Colin Rosenstiel