New Highways Design Guide launched to help communities flourish
Telford & Wrekin Council has launched a new Highways Design Guide which is now live and accessible to all online.
The guide’s purpose is to ensure that the design of new roads meet the needs of residents, visitors and road users in the future.
It is very much a live and evolving document that is open to revision and further development as new working methods, technologies and wider highways and planning guidance change.
Telford has seen some of the largest housing estate and commercial development in the country in recent years and many lessons have been learnt in terms of what has been successful when delivering new development.
The Highways Design Guide aims to build on these lessons and help to ensure that new development designs and delivery terms are right first time.
This will negate the additional time and cost of redesigns and help to avouid construction work being aborted.
Councillor David Wright, Telford & Wrekin Council’s cabinet member for Highways, Transport and Infrastructure, said: “The highways network serving new residential and commercial developments in Telford should strive for excellence in design quality.
“It should also be beneficial to all and improve the quality of life for all those that use our transport network, whether they live here, work here or are visiting our borough.
“With this aim in mind, the Highways Design Guide has been produced to provide advice and guidance on the design elements that combine to create successful residential and commercial developments in Telford and Wrekin.
“It is not intended to give definitive or prescriptive design advice and should be consulted in conjunction with other relevant guidance.
“It is intended to place greater emphasis on the development of low maintenance, innovative proposals by using new ways of thinking and different methods of approaching both design and construction.
“Well designed developments add economic, environmental, social and cultural value and help communities flourish.
“Ultimately this guide will help everyone involved in new developments to achieve good design and support an effective and efficient planning application process.”
All relevant parties involved in the design and construction of new residential and commercial developments including developers, architects and engineers can use it.
The Highways Design Guide has been put together by Telford & Wrekin Council’s development consultancy.
To view the new Telford & Wrekin Council Highways Design Guide click the link: http://bit.ly/apTHWDesignGuide
For further information and guidance please don’t hesitate to contact our Highways Development Team on 01952 384555 or via email: highways@apt-group.co.uk
CAPTION: Rob Goodall, of constructor Lovell, the council's Highways Development Manager Nick McGurk and Councillor David Wright, Telford & Wrekin Council's cabinet member for Housing, Transport and Infrastructure.
