Less restrictive parking policy recommended for outer London offices
The Mayor’s Outer London commission has recommended to London Mayor Boris Johnson that he should consider a less restrictive car-parking policy in outer London in a bid to encourage commercial development.
The report pointed out that outer London offices were having to compete with adjacent urban centres in the Home Counties like Crawley, Chelmsford and Reading rather than the city’s central area.
The commission also recommended a review of existing town-centre policies which appear to favour out-of-centre locations for new development.
The commission’s findings will feed into the current review of the London Plan, the city’s spatial strategy.
