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Risk and innovative design

Practical advice from UK Roads Board (July 2009)

From TRL

Pedestrian Environment Review System: PERS3 launched (August 2009)

From CABE

  • View Councillors guide to good design (July 2010) shows how good design can help elected members.
  • This way for better Residential Streets (includes casestudies).
  • Creating successful Master Plans.
  • Agreeing a procurement strategy.

www.sustainablecities.org.uk

Scotland's Designing Streets

Scotland's answer to MfS was published in April 2010. This is Policy.
Designing Streets incorporates PAN 76 and is a companion to Designing Places.

Shared space schemes

Stage 1 report to DfT

An evidence based design guidance says shared space is ok if applied appropriately (November 2009)

Southampton

For a Vox pop report on the £1.5M refurbishment of London Road, check out www.dailyecho.co.uk
Visit www.southampton.gov uk, for a more sober report.

Delineators

UCL research on the effectiveness of delineators has found that the traditional warning corduroy tactile is the best performing of the delineator profiles being tested on its PAMELA simulator.

Read the TfL report (April 2010).

Guide Dogs

Compromises on Exhibition Road.

PACTS: "Kerb your enthusiasm"

A research report June 2010.

RTPI Urban Design

IHE members are welcome to join the RTPI Urban Design network for weekly news, events and network opportunities.
To sign up, go to www.rtpi.org.uk/urban_design_network

Car Clubs

A starter pack for local authorities (April 2010) - Draft for consultation.

Events

Comprehensive Area Assessment

It is a new tougher test for assessing the performance of local government. CAA builds on the Government's Total Place approach to check all public spending going into an area. It also looks at how well all service providers are working together to deliver improvements across an area from crime reduction, housing and tackling recession, to regeneration, sustainability and health.

CAA replace the previous system of Comprehensive Performance Assessment.

The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment

DVDs for sale include a route hierarchy and DM hierarchy plus RSA, Travel Plan policies.

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