Official Launch of New Standards

Selected Images from the official launch of the new standards

Home Zones

• all with equal priority
• not Shared Surface Roads by another name
• Designed at concept stage
• Not be "bolted on" to an existing design
• Will normally have the following features:
  • Entrance/Exit Gateways
  • appropriate signage and lighting
  • traffic calming
  • a shared surface
  • indirect traffic routes – 400m to nearest conventional road
  • areas of planting
  • user friendly street furniture, i.e. seats or play equipment
• Must have support of the local community to work effectively
• Will require to be marketed as a concept when properties are sold
  

Extensions of Time

We want to remove the situations where houses are occupied for a considerable time and the schemes are not complete