Manual for Streets

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The Manual for Streets provides guidance for practitioners involved in the planning, design, provision and approval of new residential streets, and modifications to existing ones. It aims to increase the quality of life through good design which creates more people-orientated streets.

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The UK Department for Transport (DfT) and the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), with support from the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), commissioned WSP Group, Transport Research Laboratory (TRL), Llewelyn Davies Yeang and Phil Jones Associates to develop a Manual for Streets to give guidance to a range of practitioners on effective street design[1].

The Manual for Streets was published on the 29th March 2007[2]. It supersedes Design Bulletin 32 (DB32) and the companion guide Places, Streets and Movement, which have now been withdrawn[3]. A copy of the manual as well a summary and supporting research can be downloaded from the Department for Transport website.

The Manual for Streets has updated geometric guidelines for low trafficked residential streets, examined the effect of the environment on road user behaviour, and drawn on practice in other countries. This research undertaken by Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) provides the evidence base upon which the revised geometric guidelines in the Manual for Streets are based, including link widths, forward visibility, visibility splays and junction spacing[4].

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  1. ^ Manual for Streets website [1]
  2. ^ Department for Communities and Local Government - Planning, building and the environment - Manual for Streets [2]
  3. ^ Transport Research Laboratory - The Manual for Streets: evidence and research[3]
  4. ^ Department for Transport - Policy, guidance and research - Sustainable travel - Manual for Streets[4]

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