APPENDIX 01: Parking Standards
VEHICLE PARKING STANDARDS
| Within Central Pedestrian Zone (Zone 1) | Within Central Commercial Zone (Zone 2) | Outside Central Commercial Zone (Zones 3 & 4) | |
Land Use | | Sqm per space | Sqm per space | Notes |
B1 Offices | Nil | 100 | 40 | Transport Assessments may be appropriate for some developments |
B1 Non-office/ B2 industry | Nil | 215 | 70 |
B8 Warehousing | N/a | N/a | 120 |
Al Retail/A2 Financial and Professional Services/ A3 Restaurants & Cafes, A4 Pubs, A5 Takeaways. | Nil | 60 | Up to: l00 sqm: 2 spcs 200 sqm: 3 spcs 300 sqm: 4 spcs Up to 1000 sqm: 1 space per 20 sqm A1 Food retail: Over 1000 sqm: 1 space per 14 sqm Al non-food retail/ A2/A3/A4/A5: 1 space per 20 sqm | Transport assessments may be appropriate for some developments. For smaller stores in defined Local, District or City Centre locations, no parking will be required on-site, where adequate off-site public parking is already available and no serious road safety or amenity problems would otherwise be created. |
C1 Hotels | Nil | 1 space per 3 bedrooms | 1 space per bedroom | Arrangements can be made with public/private car park operators in CCZ. Coach parking on merit. |
C2 Residential institutions and student accommodation | Nil | 1 space per 12 bedspaces | 1 space per 4 bedspaces | |
C3 dwellings | Nil | 1 space per dwelling | 1 bedroom: 1 space 2 bedrooms: 2 spaces 3+ bedrooms: 2 spaces | In the CCZ and adjoining areas (Zones 2 & 3), reduced levels of on-site parking will be permitted with factory conversions or for other change of uses, in line with the criteria in Policy AM 13. |
D1 Non- Residential institutions/ D2 Leisure uses | Nil | 70 | 1 space per 22 sqm (excludes cinemas, conference facilities, stadia, higher and further education) | For cinemas, conference facilities, stadia, higher and further education uses outside the CCZ, see maximum parking standards applied in PPG13 (Annex D) for further guidance. Transport assessments may be appropriate for some developments. |
CYCLE PARKING STANDARDS
Land Use | Standard (sqm per space) (Gross floorspace) | Notes |
B1 Offices B1 Non-office/B2 industry/ B8 warehousing | 400 500 | Cycling facilities needed to accommodate a minimum of 12% of all journeys to work. |
Al Retail/A2 Financial Services/ A3 Restaurants & Cafes, A4 Pubs, A5 Takeaways | 1 space per 400 sqm for staff plus 1 space per 1000 sqm for customers | Minimum standards based on modal split targets in travel plans, where required. |
Student accommodation | 1 space per 2 bedspaces plus 1 per 20 bedspaces for visitors | |
C3 Residential (high density development e.g. flats) | 1 space per 2 bedspaces plus 1 per 20 bedspaces for visitors | |
D1 Education | 1 space per 5 students (year 7 and above) plus 1 space per 10 staff** | Cycling facilities needed to accommodate a minimum of 15% of all journeys.* |
D2 Leisure | 1 space per 10 staff plus 1 space per 20 visitors | Minimum standards based on modal split targets in travel plans, where required. |
All other uses | To be determined on their individual merits | Based on modal split targets in travel plans, where required. |
* A Travel Plan should promote safe cycle routes and cycle storage facilities for new or expanded educational facilities. |
Standards for Parking Provision for Disabled People.
Employment generating developments not normally visited by the public and hotels/guest houses open to residents only:
Up to 25 parking spaces 1 wider reserved space
Up to 50 parking spaces 2 wider reserved spaces
Up to 75 parking spaces 3 wider reserved spaces
Up to 100 parking spaces 4 wider reserved spaces
Thereafter 1 per 100 or part thereof
Shops and buildings to which the public have access, and public car parks:
Up to 25 parking spaces 1 wider reserved space
Up to 50 parking spaces 3 wider reserved spaces
Thereafter 3 per 100 or part thereof
Residential - General Purpose Housing:
1 space for every dwelling built to mobility standards
Further advice on the siting and detailed design requirements on parking for disabled people are set out in the City Council’s booklet ‘Paving the Way’ 1994.
Powered Two Wheeler (PTW) Parking
Transport assessments and travels plans should indicate the expected level of demand for PTW parking. As a minimum developers will be required to provide for safe, well lit and secure (including ground anchors) parking equal to 5% of the number of parking spaces provided. If possible these facilities should be under cover.
APPENDIX 02: TRANSPORT SCHEMES AND HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT LINES
The individual schemes set out below are shown on the Proposals Map and Policy AM22 will ensure that land is safeguarded.
Transport Schemes – AM22 (a)
1. Eastern District Distributor Road (completion of the outer ring road). Land safeguarded as required by the adopted Replacement Structure Plan. Programmed in the emerging second LTP for completion after March 2011.
2. Abbey Lane/Loughborough Road. Land safeguarded as required by the adopted Replacement Structure Plan.
Quality Bus Corridors - AM22 (b)
The specific elements of quality bus corridors will be dependant on local circumstances, but the principal is based on improved infrastructure (e.g. bus shelters, level access bus stops), better information (e.g. expanding the current real time information system) and - where appropriate - bus priority measures including selective vehicle detection at traffic lights and/or bus lanes.
It is proposed that quality bus corridors will be implemented within existing highway boundaries or by utilising existing highway improvement lines. The improvement lines to be safeguarded as part of quality bus corridors are set out below.
1. A426 Lutterworth Road/Middleton Street,
2. A426 Aylestone Road/Boundary Road, this does not involve a bus lane,
3. A46 Belgrave Road,
4. A50 Northgate Street,
5. A47 Humberstone Road/Forest Road,
6. A47 Uppingham Road/Scraptoft Lane,
7. A6 London Road/Mayfield Road,
8. A47 Hinckley Road.
City Centre Bus Corridor - AM22 (c)
A new bus corridor is to be complete by March 2011 using Causeway Lane, a gyratory around Mansfield Street, Church Gate and Gravel Street linking to Belgrave Gate (High Street bypass, including new link from Charles Street to Mansfield Street: bus only along Mansfield Street and St Peters Lane) The following highway improvement line is safeguarded:
9. Mansfield Street.
Outer Ring Road/Melton Road Junction Improvements - AM22 (d)
By 2011 a programme of Outer Ring Road junction improvements will be completed.
The following highway improvement lines are safeguarded to allow for the Melton Road junction improvement:
10. Troon Way,
11. Watermead Way.
APPENDIX 03: CURRENT OPERATIONAL ALLOTMENTS IN THE CITY
Abbey Rise Allotments
Beaumanor Road Allotments
Beaumont Leys Lane Allotments
Blakenhall Road Allotments
Bonney Road Allotments
Broad Avenue Allotments
Cecil Gardens Allotments
Colchester Road Allotments
Donnington Street Allotments
Earl Howe Street Allotments
Ethel Road Allotments
Gilmorton Avenue Allotments
Gorse Hill Allotments
Groby Road Allotments
Gwendolen Road Allotments
Halstead Street Allotments
Harrison Road Allotments
Holden Street Allotments
Kedleston Road Allotments
Kimberley Road Allotments
Melbourne Street Allotments
Meredith Road Allotments
Netherhall Road Allotments
Oakland Avenue Allotments
Paget Street Allotments
Queen’s Road (Private Allotments to the west and rear of 196-252 Queens Road)
Rancliffe Crescent Allotments
Red Hill Allotments
Reservoir Allotments
Sandhurst Road Allotments
Stokes Drive Allotments
Stoughton Drive North Allotments
Sutherland Street Allotments
Sutton Road Allotments
Uppingham Road Allotments
Uxbridge Road Allotments
Wakerley Road Allotments
Walsh Road Allotments
Welford Road Allotments
Whittier Road Allotments
Wycombe Road Allotments
APPENDIX 04: EXAMPLES OF OBLIGATIONS WHICH WILL BE SOUGHT
Type of Measure/Benefit | Examples |
Enhancing the Built Environment/ Conservation | · Archaeology - retention/preservation/improved facilities at Scheduled Ancient Monument · Archaeology ‑ retention/recording of other feature · Restoration of listed building · Restoration of building of local importance · Environmental enhancement/pedestrian facility including off site landscaping · Public access within development |
Enhancing and Improving the Environment/Ecology | · Public access to open space · Land reclamation · Retain feature/enhance nature conservation value |
Meeting External Costs | · Physical measures to alleviate impact, e.g. traffic management, landscaping, noise insulation · Habitat creation & management |
Measures to Offset Loss of/Impact on Amenity/Resource on Site | · Replacement/retention of recreation/environmental facilities for those lost on site, e.g. playing field, nature conservation area, litter, waste recycling · Replacement/retention of social economic facilities, e.g. training scheme, community facilities |
Provision of Facilities /Services to Support Development | · Education facilities - new schools contributions to additional classrooms · Affordable housing & Lifetime Homes · Public (open) space, including improvements & maintenance · Play space, including maintenance · Sports facilities or improvements to existing · Community facilities to support development, libraries · Other community facilities, e.g. health centre, leisure · Public art · Childcare/creche/nursery · Training/employment facilities · Access for people with disabilities · Crime prevention measures · Facilities for children · Toilet facilities, parent and child facilities · Waste recycling facilities |
Implementing Policies/Proposals in the Plan or Supplementary Planning Guidance | · Enabling measures, e.g. infrastructure works · Complete linear open space, walkway/country park · Environmental enhancement |
Highway/Physical Infrastructure | · Highways e.g. improvements to road network and access to site, provision of access roads, public transport · Drainage/sewerage/flood defence · Operational parking off site · Improvements to public parking · Traffic signals · Public transport provision · Travel Plans · Monitoring of travel plans as a result of development · Public transport, e.g. land for park and ride, LRT facilities · Cycle & pedestrian facilities, footpaths etc · Freight provision including access to railheads, new sidings, layover sites, lorry parks |
APPENDIX 05: Local Plan Monitoring Indicators
KEY: Desirable Direction of change for indicator
Main Strategic Theme Aim | Indicator | Target (by 2016) |
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY |
1. Promote vitality and a sense of place and identity. | · Number of Conservation Areas. · Listed Buildings - new & lost. · Amount of floorspace of new retail development located in existing centres as a % of total new retail floorspace. · City Centre Housing. | · To increase or maintain. · To increase or maintain. · No major out of centre retail development (major new retail development built outside centres as a proportion of total new retail development.) · |
2. Minimise energy consumption by transport, and the need to travel. | · Number of car trips to the City Centre (morning peak). · Use of public transport to the City Centre (bus). · New development over 100 dwellings to have bus access not in excess of 250m from 75% of the development. · Increase in cycling as a transport mode. · Number of major planning applications for which travel plan agreed. | · Reduce. · · |
3. Secure the development of brownfield land and buildings. | · % of new housing built on previously developed land (including conversions). · Completions on windfall sites (%). · Average housing densities in new development. · % of new employment development on brownfield sites. | · At least 60% of new housing to be built on brownfield sites by 2016. · · At least 60% of new employment development to be built on brownfield sites by 2016. |
4. Maximise re-cycling/re-use of waste. | · % of waste arisings recycled. | · To recycle or compost at least 40% of household waste arising by 2010. |
5. Protect open space for amenity, recreational, ecological, and landscape value. | · Area of publicly accessible open space gained and lost. · Net area of GW lost. · Number of TPO’s. · Number of Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation adversely affected & enhanced through by development. | · · No net loss of existing GW. · No sites adversely affected by development. |
6. Minimise pollution of air | · Reduction in NO2 and PM10 particulates - especially in the Air Quality Management Area. | |
ECONOMIC PROSPERITY |
7. Consolidate, strengthen and diversify the local economy. | Supply of employment land as part of Structure Plan target. Employment land developed by use class (B1, B2 & B8). | |
8. Encourage development and regeneration within the Leicester Regeneration Company Area. | Development of site as proposed in the 5 key project areas. Area of land in PDA’s developed for priority and other acceptable land uses. | |
SOCIAL JUSTICE |
9. Improve access to facilities and services for all, especially disadvantaged groups. | · Proportion of new dwellings which meet Lifetime Homes standards. · Publicly accessible open space within 400m of residential areas. · Number of leisure and community facilities lost to other uses. | · To meet 15% target in Local Plan. · · |
10. Meet housing need. | · Area of land available for housing development. · Housing Completions (All). · Affordable housing provided in new developments. | · · · To meet 30% target in Local plan. |
CULTURAL DIVERSITY | | |
11. Meet different development needs. | · % of planning applications approved from ethnic minority applicants in comparison with all applicants. (Asian origin). | |
