A1P (1) MAJOR HIGHWAY SCHEMES - A5225 ... - Wigan Council

process. PPG13 (annex D) advises that, for land uses not covered by its standards (such
as housing), the most stringent regional or local standards should apply. The specific
disparity between the standard for 2+ bedroom flats and 3-bedroom dwellings is
accounted for by the consideration that, within a development containing a number of
flats where communal parking areas are provided, it is possible to apply an average figure
such as 1.5 spaces per dwelling, but for individual dwellings the car spaces must be based
on whole numbers.
10.176 The LPA clarifies that, for dwelling houses, it does not count a garage
within a residential curtilage as a car space because many people use these for storage.
This approach provides occupiers with a degree of choice as to how they use the space
around their dwelling, allowing an increase up to 2 on-site car spaces if this is needed in
the particular case. This approach would still, having regard to the range of dwelling
types, allow the overall average of 1.5 car spaces per dwelling to be not exceeded. In the
interests of clarity, however, this important aspect of the application of standards should
be referred to in the UDP.
The appropriate parking standards for stadia
10.177 An objector considers that the parking standards for stadia, as presented in
Appendix 9, are unreasonably low. The reasoned justification to policy A1S informs,
however, that it is possible for a developer to provide parking in excess of the maximum
standards if this is justified by a Transport Assessment. The UDP, therefore, provides the
flexibility to respond to exceptional circumstances in respect of parking provision.
Grammatical aspects
10.178 The second element of the policy presents various factors to which regard
is to be had when deciding whether it is acceptable to depart from stated parking
standards. An objector proposes changes to the wording of criterion (iii) which would
replace ‘without’ with ‘whose use would not cause’ and the word ‘and’ with ‘or’. These
would not materially improve its comprehension. Within the second paragraph of the
reasoned justification the word ‘sets’ should be modified to ‘set’ in order to secure
consistency with the plural term ‘criteria’.
Recommendation
I recommend:
(REC 10.24) that the RDD be modified to secure that the explanatory text to
Appendix 9 clarifies that the LPA does not regard garages within a residential
curtilage as an off-street parking space for the purposes of applying the maximum
car parking standards.
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