Retro83- As nice as that sounds, I reckon what will actually happen is that people still want/need cars and will just litter the new town with the abandoned cars dumped in any available bit of space. Just like on the countless new estates already around the country which are chronically under provisioned for parking.
This^
We brought on a new build estate 4-5 years ago (Not what either of us were looking for at the time) because we had a huge deposit and mortgage in place and got a really stupid deal on a house as the market went into freefall and nothing was selling.
But it was a 4/5 bedroom house with one parking “Carport” under another flat behind us.
Oh and this Carport stands empty too as its built to the standard single garage size which would be fine if we were still driving A40s
Not so good if you can drive into it…… but not open the doors
Even less useful if you have 2 kids to get out as well.
Our next move will be to somewhere with a decent amount of off-street parking and enough space to build a proper Garage/workshop for Projects.
The whole estate is just rammed with cars, no one uses their nice allocated covered parking spaces, they all just park on the road, which is a twisty turny thing to maximise the plots for houses, but really does nothing to help the double decker bus threading its way through.