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This is the place where you can find additional information and discuss topics. Topic Papers offer practical advice on evolving issues.

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Manual for Streets ... in 60 seconds

A quick guide (2007).

New Build Home Zones

Advice on designation and order making procedures (September 2006).

Travel Pack issued to all prospective buyers of homes at Temple Quay, Bristol (2006).

Motorcycles and Traffic Calming

An extract from the IHIE Guidelines for Motorcycling 2005 (PDF 305KB), drawing attention to how bikes interact with typical physical calming features. The full Guidelines can be purchased from the Institute.

Begegnungszonen

Zones with restriction of speed

Paving

Ideas on how to use concrete paving in Home Zones.

Engaging the Community

A report from Bristol on a retrofit scheme (PDF 160KB).

SUDS in Home Zones

Click here to view this PDF (240KB).

Creating Accessible Home Zones

Click here to view this PDF (240KB).

Street Lighting

Detailed guidance including lighting classification examples for a new development from Norfolk County Council. Click here to view this PDF (89KB).

The Home Zone Movement in the UK: History, Progress and Prospects

A paper incorporating a survey of 40 schemes. Published in August 2005 by Tim Gill, ex-NCB. Click here to view this PDF (232KB).

Ireland

A paper by Sarah Rock promoting local area traffic management to enhance urban design awareness in Ireland. Click here to read more.

Managing Waste

Advice from the resource sustainable communities code on waste infrastructure and management eg storage, recycling, sourcing materials. Click here to to read more.

Home Zones in the UK:

history, policy and impact on children and youth (2006)

This paper considers the evolution of the home zone concept in the UK over the last ten years or so. It also presents opinion and research into the design and implementation of home zone schemes in England, Scotland and Wales, including new research on the impact of home zones on the lives of children and young people. Further, it reviews the extent to which British schemes have, or have not, followed the legal and design principles of their Continental counterparts.