Policy information sourced from Dartmouth Park Neighbourhood Plan
TS1 Safety and accessibility for pedestrians and cyclists
Make Dartmouth Park safer and more accessible for pedestrians and cyclists, by:
- where the developer is responsible for entrances to and exits from a development, providing vehicle cross-overs across those entrances and exits, such that drivers give way to pedestrians and where appropriate cyclists;
- for Residential Streets, resisting developments that include new dropped kerbs or footway cross-overs;
- supporting design of the public realm (including open spaces and pedestrian areas) that:
- enhances permeability for pedestrians and cyclists; and
- encourages lower vehicle speeds through traffic calming measures (but not including speed bumps), active frontages and elements of ‘healthy streets’ design; and
- supporting developments that widen pavements and pedestrian areas and help to eliminate or reduce pedestrian congestion points, including those in the list below. Developers are encouraged to take account of street signs and other clutter in pavement designs to provide a minimum 2m of effective free width.
For more information please see the Neighbourhood Plan