Sale of station car parks should be resisted. Khan has created misery as you can't park your car anymore as the station car parks have gone such as Blackhorse Road with well over 560 spaces always full. Waltham Forest Council that is anti car had deliberately run down its adjoining car park to Higham Park station to make it unsafe to park then said it had little use two years later and built flats. What has happended to the intergrated transport policy whereby station car parking was seen as essential in getting people onto public transport as part of a seamless journey. Yes I know Stanmore, Epping and Theydon Bois are very well used car parks and Khan is trying to build loads of flats at Stanmore and Cannons Park which Harrow Council are against.
Are people suggesting that stations say for example only Coventry, Crewe, Rugby, Peterborough and York should have all their car parks closed and blocks of flats built on them. This is what is happening in London. You still need to get to the station and its a non starter taking two or three buses to the station and that is why you still need station car parks. It also bring in constant revenue as selling an assest is a one off and loose all future income (which needs to be replaced from somewhere else). Station car parks often had some wildlife around and provided some much needed buffer space between development which has now gone.
@deltic in post #83 - yes it brings in one off cash but the qaulity of housing provided is all flats which suits any politician as they count the number of units. What London is desparately short of is high qaulity family houses (not flats). Most of the station car parks have done very little in social housing provision.
And as
@bramling says above what happens when the railway needs some land for sidings. Stratford's suggested new bay platforms for the proposed new Chingford and Lea Valley turnbacks could be under threat from the sphere planning proposal.
I'm not playing politics here but vast majority of politicians are not looking at the whole wider picture and impact.