Creating better places through vision-led transport planning

00:00:00 - Introduction. Refocusing design around people instead of vehicles. From site allocation to legal agreements. Katja Stille.
00:05:06 - Stepping off the Road to Nowhere. Challenging urban sprawl with a more environmentally friendly approach to masterplanning. David Milner.
00:28:30 - The shift to vision-led planning. The view from National Highways. Amy Beasley.
00:40:11 - Developing and using research and evidence derived tools in order to embed vision-led transport planning. Geoff Burrage
00:47:46 - What does vision-led planning actually look like? Nicola Lodge
01:00:22 - Vision-led transport planning for Homes England sites. Jon Sandford.
01:20:40 - Discussion exploring business cases and monitoring.
Katja Stille is a Director at Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design
David Milner is Director of Create Streets
Amy Beasley is Senior Economic Development and Spatial Planning Manager with National Highways.
Geoff Burrage is Associate Director with Integrated Transport Planning.
Nicola Lodge is an Associate with Integrated Transport Planning
Jon Sandford is Senior Manager Infrastructure, Master Development and Design with Homes England
The outcomes of transport assessments and traffic modelling can get in the way of good placemaking. Traditionally, the emphasis is placed on vehicle movement and not people, leading to large roundabouts, costly junction improvements, or a theoretical lack of road capacity that can prevent the introduction of pedestrian and cycle crossing points or active travel routes.
Every year we are spending huge sums on road infrastructure and effectively sealing off large areas of our country.
National Highways has adopted a Vision-led approach, which should rebalance the assessments toward a more sustainable outcome.
Vision & Validate, decide & provide, monitor & manage?
In this webinar the Urban Design Group and guests seek to provide answers.
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I live in a village that is on what was once a Strategic route. A motorway was built as a bypass, however, the tables have turned and the village is now on the bypass for the motorway! Satnavs now direct drivers to come through the village whenever there is a delay on the motorway. The Highways Authority reduced the parking on our main road when the Lockdowns started. This provided a brilliant demonstration of the damage this could do, as the retailers depend on passing traffic to provide 80% of their customers. The residents, in turn, depend on the retailers. Inevitably, new housing estates are planned. As a member of the Neighbourhood Plan group for the village, I'm interested to know if there is someone who could use a Vision-led approach to propose ways of handling this 'Wicked-problem'.