Rural Roads at Risk - Saving the Character of Country Roads [download Rural Roads at Risk.pdf]
Friends of the Lake District 2005
Tel: 01539 720788
Findings of research into the changing nature of rural roads in Cumbria, with recommendations for remedial action to conserve and enhance the character of non-urban roads, particularly in areas of high landscape quality.
Streets for All: North West
English Heritage, 2005
Tel: 0870 333 1181
This manual (one of a series covering all the English Regions) offers guidance on the way in which our streets and public open spaces are managed based on principles that restore a sense of local identity which can easily be lost if standard solutions are applied across the country.
Streets for All: Practical Case Studies
Tel: 0870 333 1181
Ten case studies, each on a different aspect of making better streets and each featuring a town or city where this has been put into practice. Aimed at local authorities and highways engineers, each leaflet contains detailed advice on issues to be considered and procedures to go through and lists relevant documents and legislation. They help practitioners understand the key elements that make up successful streetscape management.
Guidance for the Management and Maintenance of Roads
North Pennines AONB Partnership, 2004
Tel: 01388 528801
Guidance to help those with a responsibility for roads and the roadside environment minimise possible environmental impact on the AONB. It includes measures, which show how road managers can have a positive effect on landscape and wildlife, to ensure that roads look like they belong in the landscape rather than imposing upon it.
Reclaiming Our Rural Highways
Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, 2005
Tel: 01305 756782
The report emphasises the importance of Dorset's rural roads and the many pressures on them caused by modern life and includes best practice examples nationally and locally, finishing with a series of recommendations. These include actions like pilot projects to examine how more sensitive road management could work and a code of practice for Dorset County Council.
Rural Roads Protocol
Dorset AONB and Dorset County Council
Tel: 01305 756782
The recommendations in 'Reclaiming Our Rural Highways' have been taken forward jointly by Dorset AONB and a team from Dorset County Council and incorporated in this 'Rural Roads protocol', The protocol's main principle is to use the local setting and distinctiveness of the rural environment to guide our road management decisions. The protocol reflects the latest national and regional thinking.
The Suffolk Countryside Manual
Suffolk County Council
Tel: 0845 606 6067
The Suffolk Countryside Manual is a good practice guide for highway works in the wider countryside as well as those parts of towns and villages, which retain a rural character.
Chilterns guidelines: environmental guidelines for the management of roads in the Chilterns Oxfordshire County Council, 1997
Tel: 01865 792422
The guidelines cover the management of features, which involve not just highway authorities, but utilities, district and parish councils, landowners and environmental organisations.
Traffic Calming Schemes in Norfolk and Suffolk
TRL, 2001
Tel: 01344 773131
In summer 1999, traffic calming schemes were implemented in the villages of Stiffkey, Blakeney and Wiveton on the A149 corridor within the North Norfolk AONB, and in the village of Occold, near Eye in Suffolk. The schemes were installed under the Countryside Traffic Measures Groups, a joint initiative of the Countryside Agency and the DTLR. The aim of the schemes, which comprised gateway features and measures within the villages, was to achieve lower speeds in a rural village environment whilst avoiding the use of visually intrusive measures often found elsewhere.
Road furniture in the countryside
Transport Scotland
Tel: 0141 272 7100
Guidance to reduce the visual impact of 'road furniture' - signs, lighting and barriers for example - for local authorities, public utility companies, tourist boards and the operating companies who maintain Scotland's road and motorway network.
The Cluttered Countryside
CPRE, 1996
Tel: 020 7981 2800
A booklet highlighting the developments and factors that have contributed to countryside clutter that despoils our landscapes. It includes criticism of insensitively designed tourism and agricultural developments, together with concern for the visual intrusion caused by utilities and telecoms equipment. However, a good deal of ire is reserved for inappropriate rural road design.
Manual for Streets
Department for Transport, 2007
WSP, together with Phil Jones Associates, Llewelyn Davies Yeang and TRL were commissioned by DfT to develop a Manual for Streets. The aim of the document is to provide guidance to a range of practitioners - including planners, highway engineers, property developers, urban designers, utilities and emergency services - on effective street design, and will replace Design Bulletin 32: Residential Roads and Footpath. It covers the design considerations for residential streets and lightly trafficked local roads.
Streetscape Good Practice Guide
Department for Transport 2008
This note is to help all those involved in the design of traffic management measures to prepare schemes that consider and care for the streetscape. It assists hands-on designers, project enablers and decision makers alike. Specifically, it aims to enhance streetscape appearance by encouraging design teams to minimise the various traffic signs, road markings and street furniture associated with traffic management schemes. Clifton village traffic calming is featured as a case study in this local transport note.
Street Design
Colin Davis
Articles from the Design Notes page of Surveyor magazine, covering topics such as local distinctiveness and sign regulations.
Rural Transport Futures [download Ruraltransportfutures_summary.pdf]
Transport for Quality of Life
Other European countries have much better rural transport than Britain. This project examined three rural case study areas in the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark, and identified best practice in relation to demand-responsive transport, public transport integration, sustainable tourism, mobility management and cycling. The project was funded by Transport 2000 Trust, the Countryside Agency and Citizens' Advice.
Cycle Infrastructure Design
Department for Transport
This design guide brings together and updates guidance previously available in a number of draft Local Transport Notes and other documents. Although its focus is the design of cycle infrastructure, parts of its advice are equally appropriate to improving conditions for pedestrians. By bringing together relevant advice in a single document, this guide will make it easier for local authorities to decide what special provision, if any, is required to encourage more people to cycle.
LTN 3/08 Mixed Priority Routes: Practitioners Guide
Department for Transport
This document reviews the experience from the ten schemes involved in the Department for Transport's Mixed Priority Route Demonstration Project and presents the lessons learned through the project to assist other authorities in developing similar successful schemes. It shows how roads included in the scheme can be made safer and more pleasant for pedestrians, cyclists and motorists alike.
High Street Renaissance
Department for Transport
A summary leaflet for the Mixed Priority Routes Project. A wide range of measures have been introduced across the ten different authorities and all of the projects have delivered, to a greater or lesser degree, casualty reductions in the area.
Manual for Historic Streets
English Historic Towns Forum
Tel: 0117 975 0459
This document brings together a collection of articles by experts in both the theory and practice of good streetscape management. National policies and guidelines, the purpose and economic benefits of the public realm and the risk debate are explored in Part 1. Part 2 looks at achieving high quality in the various elements, which make up the streets - from paving and street furniture to lighting and public art. The document concludes with Key Principles and an extensive reference list.
