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Official JustPark.com response to new government guidance on driveway rentals

JustPark.com welcomes the new Planning Practice Guidance issued in March 2014, which not only allows but encourages driveway rental as a property owner’s fundamental right.

This view has been publicly supported by the Communities Secretary, Eric Pickles MP, who says:

“Renting out your driveway through sites like JustPark.com is a great example of grassroots entrepreneurship. Town halls shouldn’t be stopping hard-working people from making a bit of extra cash from their homes. We have cut petty state regulations to make renting out your driveway even easier. This is helping to provide more low-cost parking spaces for commuters, tourists and shoppers.”

We are delighted that central and local government has given their full backing to a service that allows families, churches, pubs and small businesses to generate some income in a challenging economic environment while providing a much-loved service to drivers and to local businesses.

For many decades, people would stand outside their homes near stadiums and busy train stations holding signs offering their parking spaces for rent. At its root, JustPark.com is an old-fashioned service that is about people helping each other out. It provides a simple and mutually beneficial service at a time when we need to be encouraging entrepreneurialism and community-spirited behaviour. Every person who parks at someone else's house is performing a small but significant act and is helping to build bridges across cities and communities.

Our streets are clogged with circling vehicles. According to IBM, over 20% of car pollution in major cities is caused by people looking for parking. However using JustPark.com, drivers are able to navigate directly to spaces that have been booked in advance, eliminating the traffic and congestion caused by circling. Also, we have been rolling out charging points for electric vehicles on our property owners' driveways. Over 500 charge points have been installed to date with more being installed every week through an innovative OLEV (Office for Low Emission Vehicles) grant.

The positive developments in this area show that legislators are coming to realise that - along with substantial investment in public transport infrastructure - the smartest and greenest solution to the problem of parking is to leverage smartphones and the Internet to efficiently use the space that we already have.

Anthony Eskinazi, Founder
22nd April 2014

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