Car ownership is increasing, thereby putting pressure on existing car parking spaces
8 JAN 2025
Car ownership is still increasing in the UK. Car parking infrastructure is not increasing at the same pace. Due to the lack of land on our small island, every space is important and needs to be used fairly and with good intent. Building multi-storey car parks to help ease parking woes is expensive and often slow to get through planning. If you own a car park, you will want to ensure that every space is turned over regularly. By doing so, the shops, restaurants or medical centres nearby have somewhere for people to park. This could mean that every 3 hours you expect your customers to vacate the car park to allow new ones to attend.
With more pressure than ever on the existing car park spaces in the UK, it is important to consider your car park’s needs and set rules that ensure the individual spaces are used in the best possible way. If a car park is in continual use, the times a space is used per day can be increased with better management. For example, if the bay usage turnover used to be 2 per day, to increase this to 4 per day, you may need to adapt the rules to make it a shorter stay, i.e. 2 hours free to 1 hour free, or introduce paid parking, or both. Smart Parking uses technological know-how to help manage these issues and keep your car park running efficiently.
