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parks to help ease parking woes is expensive and often slow to get through planning.\u00a0 If you own a car park, you will want to ensure that every space is turned over regularly.\u00a0 By doing so, the shops, restaurants or medical centres nearby have somewhere for people to park.\u00a0 This could mean that every 3 hours you expect your customers to vacate the car park to allow new ones to attend.<\/p>\n<p>With more pressure than ever on the existing car park spaces in the UK, it is important to consider your car park\u2019s needs and set rules that ensure the individual spaces are used in the best possible way.\u00a0 If a car park is in continual use, the times a space is used per day can be increased with better management.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Smart Parking uses 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