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Guidance on the Design of Shared Space Streets (October 2011)

New guidance to help local authorities design high-quality shared space schemes has been published today by Transport Minister Norman Baker.

Risk and innovative design

Practical advice from UK Roads Board (July 2009)

From TRL

Pedestrian Environment Review System: PERS3 assesses and rates street environments.

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

From 2011 CABE is amalgomated with the Design Council.

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.

See also 'Delivering better places in Scotland' - a good practice guide.

Shared space schemes

Felixstowe Hamilton Road (January 2011)

Southampton

For a Vox pop report on the £1.5M refurbishment of London Road, check out www.dailyecho.co.uk

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.

Clutter

Government calls for commitment to reducing street clutter (including signs) - August 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)
This document for local authorities is an updated version of the Carplus Fast Track Guide, containing further recommendations on best practise, additional reports, and the latest data.

Events

17th Annual Quality Streetscape Conference - details coming soon.

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 replaces 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.