<b><b>Will the government's drive towards reducing car use impact on the garage door market? Tim Palmer finds out</b></b><br><b>The changing attitude towards cars and car ownership is impacting on the housebuilding market, with government guidance looking to reduce car parking spaces and see more apartment and town house construction. </b><br><b>This in turn could affect the garage door market. But not necessarily adversely, according to Garador commercial director Graeme Crosbie. </b><br><b>&amp;"Possible restrictions on parking space provision for new housing in particularly congested urban and suburban localities could mean a move towards making garages indispensable storage facilities for cars rather than undersized addenda to houses which end up being used for storage, home offices or playrooms,&amp;" he says. </b><br><b>&amp;"Accordingly, garage doors should be larger to accommodate today's vehicles - particularly MPVs and 4X4s - increasing the standard width of a new build garage door opening from 7ft to 8ft with at least 7ft height.&amp;" </b><br><b><b>Wider, please </b></b><br> Movement towards chunky door mirrors on cars up to 6ft 9in wide leaves little room for error when negotiating 7ft wide openings. &amp;"We've been telling housebuilders for years to build wider garage openings and have been anticipating movement towards at least 7ft 6in - but it …