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There are Australian Standards on parking spaces that are very detailed. Sadly you have to pay for these. I have a neighbour who is an architect so his office had a copy I could borrow.
I would recommend reference to the standards by the OC or EC in any decision about whether it is reasonable to enclose the space or not. The formula changes when there is a barrier such as a wall adjacent to a space that would prevent an opening door from 'borrowing' a bit of the adjacent space.
The required width also changes along the length of a space. EG. the area where the bonnet of most cars would end up can be narrower than the area where doors generally have to open. Then the minimum width changes with the aisle width: if you have a wider space between rows of parked cars you can make the spaces narrower and still have adequate room to manoeuvre.
If the spaces would still comfortably exceed the Standards it might be appropriate to approve enclosing. Otherwise, probably not.