Remember some friends buying a house with built in garage in a posh part of Aberdeen. Built in the 30s. Biggest current car it would take was a Morris 1100 (the FWD type) And even then the passenger had to get out first.
My parents had their garage built in the 50s. Big enough for any family car and wide enough to open its doors too. Pretty rare then.
Friend of mine was building a kit car, so built a big garage, with pit. I'm pretty sure its plan area was bigger then that of his house. You can just about see the edge of it behind the house.
Chris
These days, light sensors for each or group of lights?
In message snipped-for-privacy@davenoise.co.uk>, at 14:17:39 on Thu, 19 Mar
2020, "Dave Plowman (News)" snipped-for-privacy@davenoise.co.uk> remarked:
Yes, around the Millennium I bought a house about 10yrs old which had a very generous double garage. With just the one door, although many of the houses in the same development had two single doors.
All had room for an additional four cars on the drive (2+2 side by side)
In message snipped-for-privacy@candehope.me.uk>, at 14:49:12 on Thu, 19 Mar 2020, charles snipped-for-privacy@candehope.me.uk> remarked:
Yes, they generally have a completely separate supply (from the households) in effect a 13A extension cord from one lamp-post to the next, and next...
Article about a Maida Vale Street with chargers in the lampposts:
Camera photo and picture to the wiki?
Some of us like to see this s**te.
Paywall; but other publications reveal they've converted 24 lamp-posts to "overnight" chargers. That's around 750amps. For whatever reason, those lamp-posts are not connected to the local substation in the normal way.
If they blocked you ON your drive, you could have got the police to deal with them, but if they stopped you from getting onto your drive, then the plod wouldn't help.
But it might stop the water from dodgy downpipes making a damp patch on your front wall :-) (assuming the pavement was sloped towards the road).
Because your campervan is parked most of the time on your own drive ?. Or two cars owned but only space for one on the drive ?.
When the silver contents of the shilling is more than 5p today :-)
Yes the "spare" capacity in converting to LED lighting mentioned comes nowhere near the 5.5kW taken by each charger.
Apologies in that the article requires a Times Subscription to read fully. Glad you found another source. The relevant paras are: "All charging equipment is housed within the post and motorists plug in vehicles to a powerpoint. Charging wires are locked at each end, meaning that passers-by cannot disconnect vehicles. The 5.5kW chargers typically take eight to ten hours to charge a vehicle.
It is designed for slow charging rather than the far more powerful rapid chargepoints that can power up a battery in only half an hour but require a significant upgrade to the supply.
The project, carried out with Ubitricity, an energy company, and Westminster city council, forms part of a wider introduction across the borough. In all, 296 lampposts have been converted in the borough,
Cedrik Neike, of Siemens?s Smart Infrastructure, said: ?Half of London?s air pollution is caused by road transport.?
ah - Seimens - mainly responsible for the Crossrail delay and the grid failure last Summer.
At our previous house, built 1987, the garage would hold my family-sized Primera estate and my wife's Micra.
Adequate, but barely.
Andy
I remember viewing a 1930's house where the garage door was visibly narrower than the estate agent's Audi TT. Had probably been built for something about the size of an original mini, like an Austin 7.
Bullshit. Nobody runs their battery to depletion or anywhere near. Ergo charging takes much less time than that.
One solution to people parking in the street when they have drives/ garages is the solution many US towns/ cities use- restrict the time a car vehicle can be parked in the street even in residential areas away from town centres etc. Typically the rule might be 3 days limit or no parking between midnight and 6 am. Some areas even stop you keeping unused/wrecked cars on your drive etc. Keeping a camper between trips would be fine, keeping and old junker for spares or and old van for storage would be a problem.
It is the width that is generally a problem, but that is dictated by having much thicker doors to make them safer in side impacts.
SteveW
In message <409UC81N+ snipped-for-privacy@perry.uk, Roland Perry snipped-for-privacy@perry.co.uk> writes
Opposite problem here. The garage is behind the house, and the doors (pair, side hinged) have a reasonable width to them. However, there are gates across the drive, level with the front of the house, which have a gap of 6ft. How many modern cars would fit through that gap ?
Adrian
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