Highway Design Guide

The Highway Design Guide sets out our approach to development within York.

It states that the environment should be designed with a focus on people and their activities, not dominated by roads and transport.

Any new developments should have the following aims:

• new housing estates should relate to their context and integrate with their landscape and townscape setting
• the quality of new estates should be improved for the benefit of residents, neighbours and existing communities
• safe and attractive pedestrian, cycle and public transport links within new estates and to existing communities
• safe and attractive spaces, and road networks with low traffic speeds
• easy and safe access between footways, car parking areas and dwellings for everyone, including those with impaired mobility
• safe, secure new developments which incorporate sustainable principles

Highway Design Guide

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• individual chapters of the Highway Design Guide
• the complete Highway Design Guide

Appendices to the Highway Design Guide

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• individual appendices of the Highway Design Guide
• all the appendices of the Highway Design Guide

Support documents to the Highway Design Guide

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• individual support documents for the Highway Design Guide

Also see

• Streets, roads and pavements
• Planning and building
• Technical highway specification