The potential for carfree housing in Bristol

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The potential for carfree housing in Bristol
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About Carfree UK
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Pressures in the housing market
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Effects of high density
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Parking Provision

• Are we assuming that parking is required in all
  new residential developments...
• because the planning authority will demand it?
• because existing residents will object?
• because potential residents will demand it?
• because it adds value to a development?
• because car ownership is universal / a basic
  human right...?
• Understand the benefits

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Attitudes to car use and parking
Households without cars (25-50)
Car-owning households (50-75)
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Existing carfree households (up to 50 in city
centres)

• Assumptions
• v. reality
• Suffer from tragedy of the commons
• Aspire to better mobility

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Existing car owning households

• The paradox of car ownership
• Potential Market

Accessibleshops/services
Safe streetsto play/relax
Widertravel options
Quiet, peacefulneighbourhood
What is the importance of these wants?
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Broadening the carfree market

• Zero parking
• business as usual?
• Do they fulfil the wants?

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Providing for low car dependency
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Best Practice The Continental Experiences Develop
ers of larger carfree schemes, such as Berlin,
Freiburg, Amsterdam, recognise three important
factors critical to the success of carfree
residential developments

• Mobility management
• High quality built environment
• Scale

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Best Practice The Continental Experiences
Hamburg, Saarlandstraße
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Best Practice The Continental Experiences
Berlin, An der Panke
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Best Practice The Continental Experiences

• Demand
• Modal shift from the car
• Satisfaction

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Market Surveys

• 49 interested in carfree
• 51 would require additional benefits
• Zero-parking v carfree
• Establish market conditions spatially

No Parking National Housing Federation
study, 2005
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Carfree could never happen here...

• Planning laws
• Car ownership/use
• Residents will just buy cars once they move in
  
• Neighbouring residents will have to put up with
  parking overspill
• What about deliveries? Need to drive to door
• Its undemocratic / human rights violation /
  Stalinist

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Carfree will happen here...

• Global Factors
• Research the demand
• Find the right site
• Reap the rewards

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Thank you for your time
Questions...
29 Heather Park South Brent Devon TQ10 9PU e
info_at_carfree.org.uk w www.carfree.org.uk t 0117
907 8469