Award-winning Housing Solves Parking Problems with Design

Award-winning Housing Solves Parking Problems with Design
Three new housing developments have been awarded the Building for life standard.

Backed by CABE, the government and the housing industry, the award is the national standard for design quality in new housing.

The wining developments show how innovation in design and traffic calming initiatives such as creating home zones, can work to minimize the impact of the car.

From the top-end Accordia development in Cambridge to the mixed-tenure Gun Wharf in Plymouth and the affordable Pepys Estate in Deptford, these developments set the benchmark for volume housing developments in England today.

CABE's recent Housing audit and resident surveys revealed that most new homes were let down by poor parking.

Only 46 per cent of respondents scored layout of car parking as "good" or "very good".

Wayne Hemingway, chair of Building for Life pointed out that despite attempts to regulate car use:

"We have to deal with the current issue of cars being owned and parked now and the impact this has on the quality of our streets and public realm.

Each of these winning schemes is designed with consideration of how to store cars, not just park them.

Cars are still part of most people's everyday life and we need more of this creativity and this level of thinking to ensure that new housing doesn't fall short of its potential."