It has long been the experience of local planning and highway authorities that parking is the biggest single issue of concern in recently-constructed residential developments.

Parking problems manifest themselves in pavement parking, obstruction of driveways and accesses, hindrance to larger delivery vehicles and refuse freighters, damage to soft landscaping and footways, and cluttered, unsightly streets. They cause tension between neighbours that has been known to escalate into violence.

This new guidance note seizes the opportunity offered by the Coalition Government’s announcements on residential parking, by bringing together best practice and sound evidence to assist designers and auditors in getting it right.
 
Residential Parking Guidance Note  
 

It has been written as a toolkit to help Parish Councils and local groups understand the core principles for reducing speed, improving safety and retaining local distinctiveness. We hope that Traffic in Villages will help develop new working relationships between communities and highway authorities by equipping communities with the tools to look closely at their issues and begin to consider new solutions.
 

It is illustrated with case studies and practical advice and includes a checklist to help local surveys.
 

The Toolkit extends the key principles of Manual for Streets and Manual for Streets 2 to support rural communities coping with the impact of traffic in villages and small towns.
 

More details are available here
 

This book influenced a generation of urban designers and traffic engineers in creating safer and more civilised streets. The main author, Tim Pharoah, has now donated a full electronic version for the CIHT website.
 

Produced by Devon County Council, including many photographs and colour graphics, the 180 page book won the Mobil prize for road safety, and continues to be a valuable source of reference.
 

This groundbreaking work advocated street layouts that reduce driver speeds while creating a more attractive environment and was a forerunner to Manual for Streets.
 

Besides guidance on residential streets, the Devon book advocated innovative approaches to the design of urban main streets, a theme that will be taken forward in the CIHT forthcoming companion volume to Manual for Streets.

 

 

Introduction  

Section One  

Section Two  

Section Three (1) - Categories  
Section Three (2) - Vertical Shifts in the Carriageway  
Section Three (3) - Lateral Shifts in the Carriageway  
Section Three (4) - Carriageway Restrictions  
Section Three (5) - Roundabouts  
Section Three (6) - Small Corner Radii  
Section Three (7) - Priority Management  
Section Three (8) - Road Markings  
Section Three (9) - Electronic Enforcement  
Section Three (10) - Optical Width  
Section Three (11) - Narrow Carriageways  
Section Three (12) - Occasional Strips  
Section Three (13) - Surface Changes  
Section Three (14) - Entrances and Gateways  
Section Three (15) - Central Islands  
Section Three (16) - Shared Surfaces  
Section Three (17) - Footway Extensions  
Section Three (18) - Planting and Greenery  
Section Three (19) - Street Furniture and Lighting  
Section Three (20) - Regulations  

Section Four (1) - Scheme Examples  
Section Four (2) - Aachen Forst, Germany  
Section Four (3) - Moabit Area-wide Project, Buxtehude, Germany  
Section Four (4) - Area Wide Project, Buxtehude, Germany  
Section Four (5) - Nippes District, Cologne, Germany  
Section Four (6) - Wittekind Strasse, Cologne, Germany  
Section Four (7) - Burnthouse Lane, Exeter  
Section Four (8) - Newtown, Exeter  
Section Four (9) - Mount Pleasant Road, Haringey, London  
Section Four (10) - Worthington Street, Leicester  
Section Four (11) - Victoria Road, Plymouth  
Section Four (12) - Tinsley, Sheffield  
Section Four (13) - Yealm Park, Yealmpton  
Section Four (14) - High Street, Exeter  
Section Four (15) - Bedford Street, Exeter  
Section Four (16) - Frankfurt City Centre, Germany  
Section Four (17) - High Street, Sheffield  
Section Four (18) - Fleet Street, Torquay  
Section Four (19) - Kalker Strasse, Cologne, Germany  
Section Four (20) - Leenderweg, Eindhoven, Netherlands  
Section Four (21) - St Johns Hill, Wandsworth  
Section Four (22) - Boutport Street, Barnstaple  
Section Four (23) - High Street, Barnstaple  
Section Four (24) - Tuly Street, Barnstaple  
Section Four (25) - Shenley Road, Borehamwood  
Section Four (26) - Fore Street, Brixham  
Section Four (27) - High Street, Buntingford  
Section Four (28) - Town Centre, Dartmouth  
Section Four (29) - Frankfurter Strasse, Hennef, Germany  
Section Four (30) - Hauptstrasse, Langenfeld, Germany  
Section Four (31) - Town Centre, Sidmouth  
Section Four (32) - The Plains, Totnes  
Section Four (33) - Dulmen Buldern Village, Germany  
Section Four (34) - Much Village Centre, Germany  
Section Four (35) - References and Index