Policy information sourced from Highgate Neighbourhood Plan
TR4: Reducing the Negative Impact of Parking in Highgate
Development will be expected to be car-free in areas that are designated as a Controlled Parking Zone. In the few streets that are not in a CPZ, development will be expected to be car-free if there is good access to public transport (defined at PTAL level 4 or above – a measure of distance from public transport services).
Development should not have severe negative impact on the highways or the environment. It will be resisted if it would:
- Harm highway safety or hinder pedestrian movement;
- Provide inadequate sightlines for vehicles leaving the site;
- Significantly add to on-street parking demand or otherwise reduce existing on-street parking conditions, where there is inadequate capacity;
- Create a shortfall of provision in terms of relevant parking standards for bicycles, people with disabilities and service vehicles;
- Create a shortfall of public car parking, operational business parking or residents’ parking;
- Create, or add to, an area of car parking that would have an adverse impact on local character or a building’s setting or is visually detrimental to the conservation areas.
- Any new off-street parking parking should have regard for its impact on the character of the local area, and could be required to preserve or re-provide any means of enclosure, trees or other features of a forecourt or garden; and
- Provide adequate soft landscaping, permeable surfaces, boundary treatment and other treatments to offset adverse visual impacts and increases in surface water run-off.
Private residential development of a plot that intends to maintain existing off-street parking can be exempt from the car-free parking restrictions. Any development that covers an area of existing off-street parking will need to explain the impact of the proposals on parking. As explained in III above, it must not add to on-street parking.
For more information please see the Neighbourhood Plan