Parking Standards Supplementary Planning Document update
We are updating the Parking Standards Supplementary Planning Document (SPD).
You can read the draft SPD on our consultation page using the feedback button below.
You can also view printed copies of the document at the following locations (during their opening hours):
Have your say
We want to hear what you think about our draft Parking SPD. Our public consultation starts at 10am on Tuesday 13 January 2026. The consultation ends at 5pm on Tuesday 10 February 2026.
Give your feedback on the draft Parking Standards SPD
Other ways to give us feedback
During the consultation you can also give us feedback by:
- email: implementation@bracknell-forest.gov.uk
- post: Planning policy, Bracknell Forest Council, Time Square, Market Street, Bracknell RG12 1JD
Why we are updating the document
The current Parking Standards Supplementary Planning Document 2016 has become outdated. It refers to the old Use Classes Order. This means it lacks parking standards for developments such as:
- large houses in multiple occupation (HMOs)
- Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspaces (SANGs)
It also takes an inflexible approach that does not support the council's strategy to focus new development in and around the town centre and encourage sustainable transport options.
The new Parking Standards SPD will replace the 2016 version. It will provide guidance to support the following policies in the adopted Bracknell Forest Local Plan (BFLP) March 2024:
- LP 25 Transport Principles
- LP 26 Transport Infrastructure Provision
- LP 28 Design Principles
- LP 60 Assessing Transport Impacts and Requirements
- LP 61 Travel Plans; and LP 62 Parking
The revised consultation draft Parking Standards SPD addresses these issues. It offers a flexible approach to parking when it can be robustly justified and supported through the provision of sustainable transport options. These include car clubs and financial contributions toward off-site travel planning measures.
Parking Standards Supplementary Planning Document 2016
This document provides guidance as a material consideration. This is to assess planning applications affecting residential and other development sites in the borough.
The Parking Standards SPD (2016) is a material consideration. It applies to all relevant planning applications validated after its adoption date.
It was adopted on 16 March 2016.
The Parking Standards Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) sets out:
- a strategy for dealing with existing parking issues
- the main changes to parking standards for new development from 2007 version of the Parking Standards SPD
- parking standards tables
- technical design annexes for:
- parking spaces
- disabled parking
- motorcycle or cycle parking
- electric vehicle charging
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Criteria for depth from dwelling frontage to highway boundary
The requirements in the fifth row of table 7 in the Parking Standards SPD has been replaced with new criteria for the depth from the dwelling frontage to highway boundary to cater for parking space. This is where it is associated with a dropped kerb application. These are now:
- 5.0m where adjacent footway or verge width is equal to or more than 1.5m
- 5.1m where adjacent footway or verge width is less than 1.5m but equal to or more than 1.3m
- 5.2m where adjacent footway or verge width is less than 1.3m
The authorisation was given in a report to the Executive Member for Planning and Transport in December 2018.