We provide support and advice at every stage of a parking project from the initial development of a parking policy or full parking strategy, preliminary design, stakeholder consultation, assessment of the commercial viability of the parking scheme right through to making traffic orders and the project management of the construction and delivery of the project.
Project Centre use the latest design techniques and cutting edge technology including swept path analysis and micro simulation to ensure our parking designs are of the highest standard.
We provide expert and independent advice on developing parking strategies tailored to meet our client’s needs taking into account the location and specific influencing factors such as competition and changes to customer profile. Project Centre can advise on optimising parking performance whether it is an existing operation or a new parking facility requiring a detailed business case.
The team is at the forefront of innovation – they drafted the first traffic orders for electric car charging points and provided templates that are now used by many local authorities for the introduction of car club parking spaces.
Our traffic order team has the experience to review and check orders and advise on changes to ensure compliance. We have also assisted boroughs in complying with their duties under the Traffic Management Act 2004, making sure that all the necessary changes for effective enforcement were achieved, our expertise includes:
We have built up considerable expertise in some of the most complex areas of on-street parking management such as event day parking schemes, managing parking pressure near hospitals, near major transport interchanges and on private estates.
Our parking team has managed consultations for parking and access arrangements around football stadiums and introduced and reviewed match day parking controls to minimise disruption for residents. We have gained DfT approval for match day parking signage and written robust traffic orders that protect residential streets from the severe parking disruption caused by major events.
We are working with a number of local authorities in London and across the UK, and with our links with NSL can provide an end to end service including the design, implementation, management and enforcement of a workplace parking levy scheme.
Linked is the technical paper presented to TPM in 2018 on the London Borough of Hounslow feasibility study.
Housing estate parking controls – We have introduced new estate parking management systems across estates in Kensington and Chelsea; covering statutory, policy, commercial and operational issues alongside managing a range of projects to generate income into the HRA. Our consultants have an astute awareness of how changes in policy and legislation can affect businesses on a financial and operational level in addition to an aptitude to scope out and deliverer commercial opportunities.