Sue Percy, Chief Executive, CIHT and Urban Design Panel chair, Peter Dickinson talked at length with the Minister at length about the two strategies, as well as initiatives to promote diversity, inclusion and skills within the sector.

 

Sue Percy advised that the Transport Minister thanked the Institution for its work on shared space and agreed that Government will respond in due course to the recommendations in the review.

 

“We are very pleased to have met with the Minister to discuss the creation of better streets and to have talked with her about our work on diversity and inclusion as well as developing skills in the sector,” Sue said.

 

CIHT’s ‘Creating Better Streets’ review was published in January. It recommends that Government, local authorities and the transport sector no longer use the phrase ‘shared space’ but instead start to use three more specific terms when developing future schemes designed to reduce the dominance of motor vehicles. They are: ‘pedestrian prioritised streets’, ‘informal streets’ and ‘enhanced streets’.

 

The Institution also argued in the review that Government considers legislation to allow local authorities to give pedestrians priority on certain streets, clarifies the legal position of users of ‘courtesy crossings’ and reviews guidance for appropriate kerb heights and tactile paving for the benefit of visually impaired people.