Multiple Occupation: Foreign Workers
Communities and Local Government
Written answers and statements, 22 February 2008
Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what steps the Government have taken in relation to car usage and parking provision in multi-occupancy housing areas with large migrant worker populations.
Caroline Flint (Minister of State (Housing), Department for Communities and Local Government; Don Valley, Labour)
Local authorities have powers to implement permanent or temporary traffic management or parking controls, and are best placed to do so.
The Government's Planning Policy Statement 3 "Housing", issued in November 2006, states that local planning authorities should, with stakeholders and communities, develop residential parking policies for their areas, taking account of expected levels of car ownership, the importance of promoting good design and the need to use land efficiently.