Design Checklist
- The design of the parking and vehicle access is integrated into the overall design of the terraced housing development
- Cars do not visually dominate the street, accessway or front door entrance to the house
- Parking within accessways and streets incorporates landscape planting between and around bays
- The location and arrangement of vehicle access design has strengthened the preferred housing pattern of public fronts and private backs
Many households have multiple cars, and conflict can arise between the desire to provide each individual with a parking space and creating a safe, attractive and active public realm. Therefore the range of outcomes described above need to be addressed 'in the round' to achieve high quality residential developments.
Parking and access can have a huge impact on the way a development looks and works, and the design for parking on a terraced housing development depends on a good relationship between home and external environments.