Events

Reclaiming our Rural Highways Presentations

Alexandra Luck, A Luck Associates
Poles Apart - The Highway and its Environs. What are the options whilst managing risk?

Ben Hamilton Ballie, Hamilton Ballie Associates
Places, People & Traffic - fresh approaches to safety, prosperity & civility in rural communities

Richard Fitter, Entran Ltd
Lanes - Are they rural shared spaces? A practitioner's view of highway design guidance and planning policy in rural areas

Keith Firth, Colin Buchanan
The effect of shared space at busy road junctions in the UK
View the videos relating to Keith's presentation.

Ralph Smyth, Campaign to Protect Rural England
How can we manage motor traffic levels in rural areas?

Jo Cleary, Friends of the Lake District
Quality audits for rural highway improvement and maintenance schemes - lessons learnt from Cumbria

Alan Young, WSP
Manual for Streets 2: an update

Useful links

Highway Risk & Liability Claims

Parking

  • Glasgow (A paper by Tony Hughes - 2006)

General Guidance

Principles of road signing in rural areas
Check out CPRE's 'principles for road signage in rural areas'.
Click here for more information

Rural Roads at Risk
See downloads on right hand side for a research report with a significant section on signing in the Lake District.

Including Landscape in Road Design (CA217)
A discussion note based on three casestudies of mitigation.

Assessing the effect of road schemes on historic landscapes
Part of DMRB Volume II. Please click here find out more

Civic Voice Street Pride Campaign (2010)
Road Furniture in the Countryside
Transport Scotland guidance on reducing the usual impact of signs etc.

Reclaiming our Rural Highways
Available on CD from www.dorsetaonb.org.uk/.

Rural Streets and Lanes (July 2009)
Kent AONB draft guidance.