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HIGHWAYS MATTERS
Car parking and traffic generation
3.47 The NPPF requires developments that generate significant movement are
located where the need to travel will be minimised and the use of sustainable transport
modes can be maximised; and development should protect and exploit opportunities for
the use of sustainable transport modes for the movement of goods or people.
3.48 Policies 6.1, 6.3, 6.10, 6.11 and 6.13 of The London Plan set out the intention to
encourage consideration of transport implications as a fundamental element of
sustainable transport, supporting development patterns that reduce the need to travel or
that locate development with high trip generation in proximity of public transport
services. The policies also provide guidance for the establishment of maximum car
parking standards.
3.49 Core Strategy Policy T1 supports The London Plan. Policies DM J2 and DM J3
of the DM LP set out vehicle parking standards, which brings them in line with London
plan standards and circumstances when they need not be met
3.50 The development would result in the loss of some existing garages within the
estate (4 lost out of a total of 10) as well as a number of surface level parking spaces (8
retained out of 19). Information has been submitted to indicate that only 6 garages and
7 car parking spaces are currently leased to residents. The applicants consider that the
retention (and refurbishment) of the 6 garages together with the 8 spaces would meet
the demand for the estate. There are no specific policies to resist the loss of garages or
parking spaces. The scheme would provide 4 new car parking spaces for the occupiers
of the market units. These spaces would be accessed from the existing access point in
Ceylon Road (would be widened as part of the development). Submitted information
indicates that vehicles can satisfactorily access and leave the site from this access
point.
3.51 The proposal would result in the creation of ten new residential units. DM LP
policy DM J2 would require (as a maximum) between ten and eleven spaces. The
applicant is proposing four car parking spaces to serve the development. Officers are of
the opinion that this is an acceptable solution on condition that the applicants agree that
the occupiers of all of the new units are not eligible to obtain on-street car parking
permits (Conditions 27-29). A car parking management plan would also be required by
condition (no.32). The development would only have four car parking spaces, and as
such the development would be unlikely to generate a significant number of vehicle
movements. Furthermore, there will be an overall reduction in the number of parking
spaces within this part of the estate, limiting vehicle movements. Accordingly, given the
location of the site (PTAL3), which offers good public transport accessibility and easy
access to shops and services, this is considered to be an appropriate approach in this
case, and, it is not considered that the proposed development would be likely to have
an unacceptable impact on the existing amenities of local residents as a result of
increased on-street car parking stress. In addition the applicant would pay the cost of
the works to widen the existing entrance from Ceylon Road. On this basis, the
proposed development is judged to be acceptable in the context of UDP Policy T1 of the
Core Strategy, DM LP Policies DM J1, DM J2, DM J3.
Cycle parking
3.52 London Plan Policy 6.9 provides guidance for the establishment of cycle parking
standards. Policies DM A9, DM J5 and Table 5 of the DM LP 2013 seek to ensure that