Policy information sourced from the Merton Core Planning Strategy.

CS20 Parking, Servicing and Delivery

We will seek to implement effective traffic management by:

  • Working with Transport for London and other partners to progress a range of transport improvements in key town centres, in particular, to enhance the environment and bring about significant improvements for all road users;
  • Prioritising for people with restricted mobility and protecting vulnerable road users;
  • Supporting development that includes car club bays and electric vehicle charging points;
  • Requiring developers to demonstrate that their development will not adversely affect pedestrian and cycle movements, safety, the convenience of local residents or the quality of bus movement and/or facilities; on-street parking and traffic management;
  • Providing car parking in accordance with the council’s current parking standards;
  • Considering new or expanding existing Controlled Parking Zones (CPZ) where it is deemed to reduce trip generation, promote road safety and protect existing residential amenity;
  • Supporting permit-free developments in areas within CPZ’s benefiting from good access to public transport (PTAL 4 - 6), with good access to facilities and services and/or in a town centre location. Permit free agreements may apply to proposals with or without off-street parking;
  • Incorporating Merton’s road hierarchy and Merton’s Vehicle Crossover Information Pack when locating and designing access arrangements to developments;
  • Requiring developers to incorporate adequate facilities for servicing to ensure loading and unloading activities do not have an adverse impact on the public highway or create areas which are unsafe at night or hours of low usage in accordance with standards set by the Freight Transport Association;
  • Requiring developments to incorporate safe access to and from the public highway as well as on-site parking and manoeuvring for emergency vehicles, refuse storage and collection, and for service and delivery vehicles;
  • Implementing measures to discourage/reduce pavement parking in industrial areas of the borough, particularly at Willow Lane, South Wimbledon/Morden Road and Weir Road / Durnsford Road;
  • Including measures for visitor drop-off and pick-up areas, taxis, bus/coach parking, off street parking, set-down and pick-up facilities and Community Transport (e.g. Dial-a-ride) in development where appropriate;
  • Seeking planning obligations to mitigate the impact of development proposals and provide improvements to the highway network/public realm;
  • Promoting measures to reduce the impact of goods vehicles on residential areas and town centres.

For more information, please see the Core Planning Strategy.