17. Thinking it through: Roads, parking & pedestrian environment Car parking in the street scene Car parking in the street scene Cr 8
18. Thinking it through: Roads, parking and pedestrian environment Overlooked public space Overlooked public space Cr 10
19. Thinking it through: Roads, parking and pedestrian environment Appropriate street design Appropriate street design Cr 7
Editor's Notes
Building for Life takes principles from the existing policies for good design and breaks them down into a catalogue of 20 Criteria, also referred to as the Building for Life Standard. The Criteria fall into four Headings: Character, Roads, Parking, and Pedestrianisation Design and Construction Environment and Community You may also be aware of the Design and Access Statement that you need to submit with planning applications since May of last year. CABE has produced some guidance on how to write these, which is available on our website. This guidance sets out seven headings. You may now be thinking: “ 20 criteria – 7 headings” isn’t this all rather confusing? But the good news is that the 20 criteria cover the same ground as the 7 headings, so you can use BfL to structure your Design and Access statements, but you can also use the Design and Access statement to get an idea of how a design is going to perform against BfL. I will now run through the criteria briefly,
The image on the right is completely over engineered – not suited to a residential street and inconvenient for pedestrians to navigate. The right shows a more subdued traffic circle that uses other visual cues to slow down traffic. Shared surfaces mean that pedestrians can move according to their desire lines. [image on right from Taunton]