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New @NottsCC highways rules totally ignore #B4L12: “The County Council will not encourage the use of tree lined verges between carriageways and footways. This makes it difficult to alight from cars... verges should be located at the back of footways.” 1/x https://twitter.com/homesengland/status/1288758236506726401
This is a car driver’s paradise, with all other/ healthier forms of transport relegated: https://consult.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/transport/nottinghamshire-highway-design-guide-july-2020/supporting_documents/Draft%20HDG%209720%20Consulation%20version_compressed%201.pdf
Flies in the face of ‘gentle density’ by insisting on minimum 2 spaces for a 2 bed house. That’s 6.6m width needed. Average new build terrace/ semi is 5m wide 2/x
Flies in the face of ‘gentle density’ by insisting on minimum 2 spaces for a 2 bed house. That’s 6.6m width needed. Average new build terrace/ semi is 5m wide 2/x
Effectively @NottsCC are banning the building of smaller homes in Nottinghamshire. If we had to apply these new rules to our development so far, we wouldn’t have been allowed to build ANY of them, because of CARS for goodness sake. This is madness! 3/x
In the last year there’s been excellent work from @createstreets and others around creating neighbourhoods of ‘gentle density’ where the car isn’t king. #NPPF enshrines Building for Life 12 as the gold standard. But @NottsCC ignores all of this 4/x
Building for Life 12 explicitly says that ‘Streets principally designed around waste collection vehicles’ is bad design and must be avoided. But @NottsCC says residential streets should be sized to be ‘sufficient to accommodate a full sized dust cart 11.5 to 12m long’ 
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The old rules made sense - allowed for a range of parking solutions that balanced likely demand with local sensitivities. That’s all obliterated now in favour of an orgy of tarmac and hard surfaces, effectively banning trees and green space, and more. 6/x
The new rules would make marginal, brownfield sites utterly uneconomic to develop, because there have to be fewer new homes to allow for MORE BLOODY CARS. We must tell @NottsCC to go back to the drawing board - starting by talking to people like us at the coal face. Please RT!
