Size of car parking space

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benji2006

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What is the standard size for a car parking space in an apartment/housing development that has shared parking?


I have checked the local (Galway) development plan, and I could only find a definition for when the parking space is in the front garden :

"Where on site car-parking space is to be provided in the front garden the following standards shall apply:
• The front garden depth shall be minimum of 8m.
• For on site car parking accommodation for existing dwellings a lesser depth may be acceptable.
• The car parking space shall be 2.5m x 5m minimum.
• The vehicular entrance shall not normally exceed 3m in width, and where feasible the maximum extent of boundary wall/hedging shall be retained.
• Where gates are provided they shall not open outwards.
• Front gardens shall not be completely dedicated to car parking."

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The "Car Parking Association" (no sniggers please) have a good website which gives details on parking [broken link removed] but it's only for multistorey/underground - which you may or may not have in your building.

When it's too late to save all those living in mixed density developments the Dept of the Enviroment will issue a SI or include minimum sizes in the building regs. It's a hot topic as any forced regulation may have meant that projects would not have gotten off the ground, so it's down to the LAs to make their own guidance documents.
 
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