Notes: These questions apply to both the development of new highways, such as those in residential estates, and the redevelopment of existing highways.
Question 1
What highway design guidelines or standards does the council use and where?
(Please mark the appropriate box)
Road / street type Council’s own highway guidelines Council’s own highway standards DMRB Manual for Streets Manual for Streets 2 Other
(please specify)
Arterial road
Distributor / connector road
Relief / ring road
Avenue / boulevard
High / main street
Mixed-use street
Residential street
Rural roads and lanes
Village street
Comment
Question 2
If the council has its own documented / published highway design guidelines and/or standards, please provide a link or an electronic copy thereof.
Comment
Question 3
How does the council classify its road / street network?
(Please mark the appropriate box)
Arterial, distributor / connector, access / local (or similar)
Avenue, main street, high street, mixed-use, residential, mews (or similar)
Other, please specify:
Comment
Question 4
For the following aspects of Manual for Streets and Manual for Streets 2, please select the most appropriate option:
(Please mark the appropriate box)
Required by Council Encouraged by Council Permitted by Council Discouraged by Council Prohibited by Council Not applicable
LAYOUT AND CONNECTIVITY
Permeable or connected street layouts
MfS: 4.2.3 / MfS2: 1.2; 2.5
Direct frontage access on 30mph roads with up to 10 000 vehicles per day (e.g. distributor / collector roads in built up areas)
MfS: 4.2.3; 7.9 / MfS2: 9.10
CARRIAGEWAYS
20mph design speeds or lower for residential streets
MfS: 7.2; 7.4.2
20mph design speeds for streets with significant pedestrian activity, such as high streets or main streets
MfS2: 8.2
30mph design speeds or lower for other streets in urban areas
MfS2: 8.2
MfS recommended horizontal alignment
MfS2: 8.3
MfS recommended stopping sight distances
MfS: 7.5 / MfS: 10.1 - 2
Restricted forward visibility to reduce vehicle speeds
MfS: 7.8 / MfS2: 10.3
MfS recommended junction visibility splays
MfS 7.7 / MfS2: 10.4 - 7
MfS recommended carriageway and lane widths
MfS: 5.2.4; 7.2 / MfS2: 8.6
JUNCTIONS AND CROSSINGS
Tight corner radii at side / minor road junctions (under 2m)
MfS: 6.3.12 – 13 / MfS2: 9.3.14;9.4.10 – 13; 9.8.6
Tight corner radii at other junctions (under 6m)
MfS2: 9.4.10
On streets with low traffic flows and speeds, large vehicles, such as bin lorries, can use the full carriageway width to turn (i.e. cross into the oncoming lane)
MfS: 6.8.1; 6.3.13 / MfS2: 9.4.11
Pedestrian crossings placed on or close to the desire line
MfS: 6.3.9; 6.3.12; 7.3.6 / MfS2: 9.3.2
Side road entry treatments (e.g. raised crossings across the mouth of minor road junctions, preferably on the pedestrian desire line)
MfS: 6.3.15; 6.3.16 / MfS 2: 9.3.14
Departures from conventional DMRB roundabout designs, such as compact, continental-style or mini-roundabouts
MfS: 7.3.12 – 16 / MfS2: 9.6 - 7
Use of crossroads at junctions
MfS: 7.3.8 / MfS2: 9.4.4 – 5
PEDESTRIAN NEEDS AND FOOTWAYS
A minimum footway width of 2m
MfS 6.3.22 - 23
At vehicle crossovers, footways with at least a 900 mm minimum width at normal footway crossfall (2.5% max.)
MfS: 6.3.28 – 30 / MfS 2: 9.4.14-15