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Originally Posted by Xaccers
My point is that sufficient parking is not a regulatory requirement for a building to get planning permission.
My parent's whole housing estate does not have sufficient parking. By your logic those houses should not have been given planning permission.
While it would be great if sufficient parking was a prerequisite, it's not.
If patrons of a mosque are parking illegally, then ticket them, if they're not but their just inconveniencing other drivers slightly, then that's just something to live with.
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actually that's 100% wrong all new commercial premises have to demonstrate they have sufficient parking for any customers wether that is attached to the premises or by virtue of car parks close by that can handle any extra parking brought about by new customers to the area ,they also have to have surveys done (if the expected customer increase is large enough)for increased traffic flow which may or may not result in new road layouts .
the point you made about parking (red highlite) is the point of the thread imo .It is parking that most people worry about .For years the elswick road mosque was a parking problem ,they were granted permission to build a new mosque a couple of hundred yards down the road with attached parking this just compounded the problem as the mosque took about 250 more worshipers than the old one so eventually after complaints from the local residents ,fire brigade and bus companies the council had to put double yellow lines along that stretch of road ,which has moved the problem to the residents who get their drives blocked by overflow parking