Bigger parking spaces

Fruitcake

New guidelines from the Institution of Structural Engineers have been released, recommending significantly expanding the sizes of standard parking spaces. While larger parking spaces could offer all drivers the space modern cars now require, the changes would lead to some loss in the number of parking spaces across UK cities.

Parking: the need for transformation

According to the new guidance, car park spaces should increase at least 5% in length and 8% in width. This means an average parking space will go from an average 2.4 by 4.8 metres to roughly 2.6 by 5.0 metres.

The standard for current parking spaces had been based on vehicle sizes from the 1970s, when the last publication of the Institution of Structural Engineers’ guidance was released.

This was taken from an email sent to me by one of my vehicle insurance companies. My aplogies for the pop-ups.

Changes to UK car parking space sizes | Adrian Flux

Umkomaas

I wonder how our friends in the private parking sector will react to this?  Fewer wheels touching/over white lines will hit income lines, especially for the likes of UKPC. 

Let's see if the BPA reproduce this in Parking News, and whether Kryptic Kelvin will come up with some whizz-bang reasons why the proposals just don't make any sense!

amanda1024

Parking spaces in my street must be at the minimum size - you have to be touching the curb to be within the space (and that’s when hiring ‘compact’ cars). But I worry if they made them wider they might decide they could only fit spaces on one side of the street…

Nellymoser

Here's another article on UK vehicles too 'large' to fit into our present car parking spaces leaving those drivers and service providers at risk of being hit with hefty penatly fines and PCNs.

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/cost-of-living/drivers-face-130-fines-car-28747687?

Nellymoser

Premium Parking is coming to the Trafford Centre - to suit the needs of 'premium shoppers'. The revamped car park next to Selfridges benefits from bigger car park spaces. The 3m x 2.5m wide bays will make it easier to park 'larger luxury and family sized vehicles'.

The Premium Parking will be operated by ANPR barriers. How payments will be made and how much it will cost to park there is still to be confirmed. No doubt the minimum spend in the 'premier shops' to a get PCN cancelled will remain a secret.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/trafford-centre-charge-parking-first-29860192.amp