Home Zones: Challenging the future of our streets
Home Zones are residential streets designed as places for people, not just vehicles. Restoring the balance between traffic and communities can help make streets safer, more sociable, and better places to live in. Where successfully implemented, Home Zones have led to stronger, more vibrant and diverse communities, fewer empty properties and even reduced crime. One notable example is in Morice Town in Plymouth. Here residents say that their Home Zone has generated a new feeling of community and is improving the quality of life, making local journeys safer and contributing to the well being of the local population.
The Department's Home Zones Challenge programme has demonstrated what benefits can be delivered and highlighted issues to be considered when developing Home Zones.
In Home Zones: Challenging the future of our streets we have drawn together these lessons. It aims to disseminate good practice in Home Zone design and scheme development complementing design guidance already published. It is not intended to be a design manual that provides a blueprint for Home Zones. Every scheme will, and should, be different.
Home Zones: Challenging the future of our streets (3 Mb)
This document aims to disseminate good practice in Home Zone design and scheme development, drawing on experience from the Home Zones Challenge. It complements design guidance already published.
- Published:
- 17 November 2005
