PPS 7 Quality Residential Environments·Page 24·4.36
Car Parking Design and Location
Car parking amounts are negotiated based on development characteristics and location. Parking must be well-designed, convenient, and allow for informal surveillance without dominating the residential environment. Within buildings such as apartments, parking is only acceptable if it does not negatively impact the street scene at ground level.
The amount of car parking required in any development will be negotiated with developers according to the specific characteristics of the development and its location and having regard to the Department's published standards. All car parking should be well designed, convenient and located to allow for informal surveillance. It should not, however, dominate the residential environment to be created. In instances where car parking is proposed within the built fabric of a building, such as apartment development, this will only be acceptable where it will not result in a negative impact on the street scene at ground level.
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