614) In recent years, there has been significant growth of online taxi companies and car clubs, which provide an alternative to private car usage and public transport. Therefore, facilities for these modes of transport should also be fully considered within developments.

New developments shall provide an appropriate level of parking in line with the council's parking standards. Developments proposals will be expected to:

accommodate parking for a range of vehicle users, including occupiers and staff, visitors, disabled badge holders, powered two wheelers, cycles, scooters, dropping off and picking up, buses and coaches, goods and service vehicles, and car club vehicles;

accord with local and national design standards for parking and ensure that parking provision is well-integrated, safe, over-looked but unobtrusive, and contributes positively to the streetscene;

ensure that parking provision is flexible and can be adapted over time to reflect demand;

ensure that, variable message signs that display information of car parking availability are provided for public car parks, for developments that have customer/visitor car parks or for developments where customers/visitors will make use of public car parks;

physically or by means of legally enforceable waiting restrictions prevent the parking of vehicles on footways and cycle tracks;

require, provision to be made for occupiers or staff to have access to car club vehicles or pool cars/cycles. Where possible, car club vehicles and pool cars must be zero emission vehicles.

demonstrate, where on-street parking is proposed or is likely to occur as a result of a development, that it would not adversely affect highway safety, access, the capacity of the local highway network or local residential amenity; and

demonstrate that there would be no unmitigable detrimental impacts arising from the loss of parking facilities that result from development