SizeMark Proposal Aims For Real Life Car Parking Spaces

Everyone knows that cars are, generally, going up in size rather than down. This is for a number of reasons but not least due to safety. Larger size cars can be more difficult to park, especially when car parking spaces have remained the same for a long time and in some car parks in fact seem to be smaller than previous!

YourParkingSpace.co.uk, the UK’s fastest growing car parking marketplace, is calling for the introduction of SizeMark; a new parking industry standard designed to ensure that car parking spaces are large enough to accommodate modern motor vehicles.

“When it comes to parking spaces, it’s certainly a case of bigger is better,” says Harrison Woods, former BBC Dragons Den contestant and managing director of YourParkingSpace.co.uk. “We see it every day – after location, the number one concern of motorists is the size of the parking space. The number of drivers who are now actively requesting driveways over car parks, purely because of their size, is remarkable.”

Growing vehicle size is a significant issue for car park owners and drivers alike. Today’s Mini Cooper is 24 percent wider than the 1959 original; the Honda Civic is 18 percent wider than the first model launched back in 1973; the Volkswagen Golf is nearly 12 percent wider than its original 1974 version; while the current Ford Fiesta is 10 percent wider than the original 1976 version. Furthermore, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, in 2013 more than 400,000 new cars were registered in the UK from the luxury, MPV or dual purpose segments, which typically include much wider vehicles.

Mr Woods believes that the solution could be new guidelines regarding the minimum recommended size of a parking space, proposing a SizeMark standard as an ideal solution. “It’s time that the industry introduced a recommended minimum parking space size so that drivers know what to expect. Our proposal is to introduce the SizeMark standard, where all car parks that meet this minimum size are awarded an instantly recognisable SizeMark badge to help drivers minimise damage to their cherished cars.”