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Housebuilders caught by DfT’s ‘pause’ on level surface streets

STREET DESIGN

Andrew Forster
20 August 2018
The DfT’s request that councils cease design work on further level surface schemes appears to apply to both town centres and residential streets
The DfT’s request that councils cease design work on further level surface schemes appears to apply to both town centres and residential streets

 

Hundreds of new housing developments across the country could be delayed for months because of the DfT’s request that councils “pause” design work on street schemes with level surfaces – i.e. no kerbs. 

Transport minister Nusrat Ghani wrote to councils in England at the start of this month “asking” that they “pause the introduction of new shared space schemes that incorporate a level surface, and which are at the design stage”. The Department...

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