Manual for Streets

Manual for Streets (MfS) is a design guidance document that updated the link between planning policy and residential street design. The manual refocused the place function of residential streets away from purely the function of traffic movement, which had led to places dominated by motor vehicles, putting well-designed residential streets at the heart of sustainable communities.

[edit] Manual for Streets (MfS1)

Manual for Streets (MfS) was produced by a team led by consultants WSP, with Llewelyn Davies Yeang (LDY), Phil Jones Associates (PJA) and TRL Limited on behalf of the Department for Transport, and Communities and Local Government and was first published in 2007. It replaced Design Bulletin 32, which was first published in 1977, and its companion guide Places, Streets and Movement, which are now withdrawn in England and Wales. It also complemented Planning Policy Statement 3: Housing and Planning Policy Wales. The MfS did not apply to the trunk road network, which were set out in the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB).

[edit] Manual for Streets 2 (MfS2)

Manual for Streets 2 (MfS2) presented a wider application of the principles in initially set-out Manual for Streets (MfS1) and as represented a companion guide that was the product of collaborative working between the Department for Transport and industry and was published In 2010 by The Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT). Whilst MfS1 focussed on lightly-trafficked residential streets, MfS2 investigates in greater detail how and where the key principles can be applied to busier streets and non-trunk roads, thus helping to fill the perceived gap in design guidance between MfS1 and the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB).

Combined these documents help demonstrate the benefits of flow from good design and the assignment of higher priority to pedestrians and cyclists. This helps set out an approach to residential streets that recognises their role in creating places that work for all members of the community to make a positive contribution to the quality of life. Between them, MfS1 nad MfS2 give clearer guidance on how to achieve well-designed streets and spaces that serve a community and in a range of different ways, whilst still functioning as roadways.

[edit] Development

In 2020 The Department for Transport commissioned the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) to revise and bring together Manual for Streets (MfS1), and Manual for Streets 2 (MfS2) the finalisation and publication of the revised Manual was taken forward by the Department but no date for publication has yet been announced.

To download the first 2007 Manual for Streets publication (MfS1) click here

To download the second 2010 Manual for Streets publication Manual for Streets 2 (MfS2) click here

[edit] About the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT)

For further information about the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) visit their homepage here:

https://www.ciht.org.uk/

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