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Manual for Streets (MfS) (DfT/DCLG 2007)

Provides guidance on the design of residential and minor roads. The aim is to promote a fundamental shift in the way people share and enjoy the street.


The changes to the street environment include many of the principles exemplified in Home Zones including reduced sightlines, reduced or removed carriageway delineation, signing and marking, using parking as a form of passive traffic calming.

Click here for a copy of Manual for Streets. (Government Guidance)

Manual for Streets ... the Dft's summary

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Better Streets, Better Places: Delivering Sustainable Residential Developments (ODPM 2003)

Reports on the impediments to achieving well designed high density housing layouts. It recommends guidance on designing and managing streets to make them vibrant places for people rather than simply as transport networks. Click here to read more. (Government Research Report)

 

Highway Risk and Liability

A supplement from the UK Roads Board's Well Managed Highways with advice on shared space schemes (2006).

Click here to read more. (Other)

 

Civilised Streets (2008)

A CABE 'think piece' on risk.

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Safer Places: The Planning System and Crime Prevention (ODPM, Home Office)

Click here to read more.

 

PPS3 Parking Guidance (2007)Residential Car Parking Research

DCLG has published, as a research paper, guidance on how to estimate parking demand on new developments.  Essential information for authorities drafting local parking guidance. (Government Research Paper)

 

Places, Streets and Movement (DETR, 1998)

(REPLACED BY MANUAL FOR STREETS 2007)

A guide to planners and engineers on the design of residential areas.

 

Better Places to Live: By Design (2001)

This guide seeks to improve the quality of residential development, as encouraged by PPG3 (now PPS3). It spells out the principles of good design as they apply to residential environments and challenges local authorities and developers to think more imaginatively about design and layout. Click here to read more. (Government Guidance)

 

By Design: Urban Design in the planning system: towards better practice (DTLR/CABE 2001)

This guide sets out sound, practical guidance on how to achieve earlier, greater and better-informed attention to urban design within the planning and development system. Click here to read more. (Government Guidance)

Design Bulletin 32: Residential Roads and Footpaths (HMSO 1992)

(REPLACED BY MANUAL FOR STREETS, MARCH 2007)

DB32 was the basis of many local county design guides but has been superceded by the Manual for Streets.

 

Together We Can (Home Office 2005)

Sets out the Government’s Commitment to empower citizens to work with public bodies to set and achieve common goals. Encourages local authorities to engage local communities in the development of Home Zones for their residential streets (para 3.6). Click here to read more.

 

The Future of Transport

A network for 2030 – looks at the factors that will shape travel and transport networks over the next 30 years – p77 (section 6.7) on Home Zones. Click here to read more.