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1. Parking is already at a premium in this area due the high density (and increasingly high desnsity) of residences. Adding a business as well as only 11 cars for 14 dwellings (where the occupants may have more than a vehicle per dwelling) will further put pressure on the area. Would suggest that the development requires a significant amount more car parking for both the business and residents.

2. I completely disagree with Mr Matthew Costain. 11 car spaces is more than adequate for 14 dwellings and a business. I think this is a step forward in developers' understanding of the local parking constraints. I believe this is a lot more than normally necessary for such an application, and I applaud the developers for their forward thinking.

3. In the spirit of honest disclosure, it would be appropriate for the developer (or their agents/employees) to advise they are as such in any comments here.

4. I live nearby and can attest that fewer people live in 2 car households lately and in my own row of terraces, some of us have no cars. I think we should be encouraging the use of public transport and carshare schemes as many people living in the inner city are choosing so in order to live near their work. I can't see many people needing a car as much in these areas, but that is just my opinion, albeit buoyed by some data.

   To the person identified as Phillip-Gladstone Street Resident's Group. Are you suggesting that a comment is from a developer here? People must submit email addresses and postal addresses here so that can be tracked by the council. If that is the case it can be exposed pretty easily and I wouldn't be making that suggestion too lightly.

   I would prefer you to have posted as yourself though, instead of a residents group. It infers you speak for several when that might not be the case and will make no difference to the submission anyway, since they are counted individually.

5. It is statistically very unlikely that a development of this size would need so few parking spots. As a victim of Council decisions which have allowed businesses to avoid the usual responsibilities to provide on-site parking on the grounds that we are near a railway station and people will come to work by train, we see our resident parking full of cars associated with the businesses. When large blocks of flats were built at the top of the street, the same argument was used - people won't want cars because they are so close to the station. For people who are supposed to not want cars these residents sure own a lot - far more than can be parked in the spaces provided within the development.

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