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The parking is interesting. The roads on these developments are not triple width (often not even double width) to ensure maximum number of units on any given site. Number of parking spaces per property = 1 (so minimum number of vehicles = maximum number of units for the square footage). Problem is that because property is so expensive kids don't move out (average age is now 30 for kids leaving home in Norfolk for example). They are of working age and have cars............where do they park ? - anywhere they can. Round here they block other people's driveways, park on the pavement, block the roads - they have no choice. often the nearest space can be half a mile away............
Here's the rub. A few months ago there was a house fire on one of the developments round here. The road was blocked with cars parked either side of the road - the gap (1 car width) was not wide enough for the fire engines to get through. They refused to damage the parked cars by trying to get through and told me that if they damage their engine, the engine has to be taken off the road and the driver is either suspended or taken off driving duties until there has been an enquiry into the RTA. They ended up doing the sensible thing. Ran up to the house and made sure no-one was inside, and then left it to burn. God only knows what would have happened if there had been people inside.................. obviously the same applies to ambulances which can't get through the gap either..........
And yet no-one cares and this must have been obvious to the planners when the plans were submitted. There is an easy fix - state a minimum road width and stick to it. No road width minimum = no planning approval, and while we're at it a minimum of 3 spaces per property for car parking............
Wander
Burnham Market now known a 'Chelsea on Sea' or 'Home of the Rangerover' if you live around here......... over 60% of the houses there are owned by people from outside Norfolk. (and double parking of 4WD is rife in the village from 5 on a Friday until 8 on a Monday). You'd be sad to see it.........
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