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Real-world experience and insights on sharing parking spots within VvE's and complexes.
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Building associations & residents
Practical articles for anyone who wants to share a parking spot within their own building association: how to convince the board, why a WhatsApp group falls short, and what privacy rules apply.
EV charging
What's involved in adding a charging point to a building association's garage: from the decision to install one, to fairly sharing charging turns once it's there.
Municipalities & parking policy
For policymakers and property managers: why building extra parking spaces rarely relieves pressure for long, and what sharing existing spaces actually delivers, with real-world figures.
New developments & urban design
On parking standards for new developments, what buyers do and don't lock in with a private spot, and how cities like Utrecht are experimenting with car-free districts.
Businesses & offices
For businesses with an office or company garage that sits largely empty outside working hours: how to apply the same closed-group approach as a VvE between colleagues or neighbouring businesses.
Wednesday 14 October
Why Utrecht wants cars out of every corner of the city
Merwede is the best-known example, but not the only one: Utrecht is building several districts at once with barely any private parking of their own. What that policy involves, and what it means for the people moving in.
Read more →Wednesday 7 October
Merwede in Utrecht: how to design a neighbourhood without cars
With a parking standard of 0.3 spaces per home, Utrecht is building the largest car-free inner-city district in the Netherlands in Merwede. What that means in practice for the people who'll live there.
Read more →Thursday 1 October
An electric car in the VvE garage: who gets to charge where?
Not every space in the garage gets its own charging point. Often a handful serve many times that number of owners. What happens once a car just stays put after it's done charging.
Read more →Wednesday 30 September
Do I need to buy a parking space with my new-build home?
At a growing number of new-build developments, a parking space is no longer an automatic part of the purchase contract, but a separate choice with a price tag running into the tens of thousands of euros. What factors into that choice.
Read more →Wednesday 30 September
Charging points in the VvE garage: what needs to be arranged?
A charging point in the shared garage looks like mainly a matter of a vote, but the real bottleneck is usually in the meter cupboard. What a building association needs to figure out first.
Read more →Sunday 27 September
Is sharing a parking spot GDPR-compliant?
The moment a building association has names, bookings or contact details processed (through an app or a group chat), ordinary GDPR rules apply. What a board actually needs to know.
Read more →Thursday 24 September
Why a WhatsApp group doesn't work for sharing a parking spot
It's the first solution almost every building association tries, and the reason it quietly dies out after a few months.
Read more →Tuesday 22 September
How do I convince my VvE board to share the parking spot?
You don't have to wait for the board to start sharing yourself, but for a building-wide approach, it helps to know how to actually get it on the agenda.
Read more →Monday 21 September
Parking in the big city: what an empty garage bay is worth
In Amsterdam a resident permit can cost up to 570 euros per six months, with a waiting list running into years. What an empty bay in your own garage is worth against that.
Read more →Thursday 10 September
Parking standards in new developments: how shared use frees up square metres
Every space in a new development costs room and money you would rather put into homes. What to lock in before completion to keep spaces shareable.
Read more →Tuesday 18 August
Densification without parking chaos: what higher density does to parking standards
More homes on the same square metres changes the parking maths. Why the standard is a floor, not a forecast, and how shared use closes the gap.
Read more →Wednesday 29 July
Municipal parking pressure: why adding spaces rarely relieves it
An extra space costs tens of thousands of euros and land you spend only once. Why building more rarely relieves pressure, and where the real gains are.
Read more →Thursday 9 July
Parking problems in residential building associations: the six recurring causes
Almost every building association names the same problem: too few spaces. Count properly and it is usually a distribution problem. Six causes, and what helps.
Read more →Tuesday 23 June
Sharing parking spaces in your building association: from empty bay to shared space
Half a residential garage sits empty on weekdays while residents circle the block outside. How to connect the two, without reopening the deed of division.
Read more →Friday 10 April
Sharing between neighbouring businesses: how two companies use a garage more efficiently
An office that's full during the day and a gym that peaks in the evening need, in theory, exactly the same parking spots at completely different times. In practice, there's usually a fence between the two garages.
Read more →Wednesday 25 February
An office garage that sits empty in the evening: what can you do with it?
An office building uses its parking garage roughly eight hours on a workday. The rest of the time, that same capacity sits idle. The same principle VvE's use to share spots works just as well between colleagues or neighbouring businesses.
Read more →Tuesday 20 January
Measuring parking occupancy: how do you really know how full a neighbourhood is?
A parked car isn't proof of a shortage: sometimes it's the same car that hasn't moved in three weeks. How municipalities and property managers arrive at usable occupancy figures.
Read more →Friday 14 November
How many EV chargers does a VvE garage actually need?
Two for the whole garage, or a charger at every spot from day one? VvE's weighing up EV chargers for the first time run into the same question, and a meter cupboard that wasn't built for fifty cars at once.
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