Street Design Checklist

 

The following check list is based on the principles contained in ’Streets for All’. The check list should be developed in the light of experience, informed comment and particular issues found to be relevant to Oxford.

 

1 Ground Surfaces

 

1.1     Pavements

• Damage
• Appropriateness and uniformity

 1.2     Highway surfaces and verges

• Obtrusive coloured surfaces across bus lanes, inappropriate in conservation areas
• Yellow and red lines, e.g. reduction from 100 mm wide to 50 mm wide

 1.3     Ramps and tactile paving

• Integration with surrounding surfaces
• Appropriate colours

 2      Street Furniture

 

2.1     Clutter

• Identify superfluous and redundant items
• Identify unnecessary signs
• Identify where signs and signals can be co-located on columns, posts and buildings

 2.2     Street name signs

• Signs to be placed on walls at rear of pavement where possible
• Cast signs to be in good painted condition

 2.3     Traffic signs

• Over provision or repetition
• Reduction of size to lawful minimum
• Too much and unreadable information
• Coordinated colour matching
• Signage rationalisation

 2.4     Traffic signals, crossings and guard rails

• Unobtrusive positioning and size of traffic signal control boxes
• Elimination or reduction of guard rails to a minimum
• Minimise traffic heads and repeater signals
• Integration of traffic signs and signals

 2.5     Street lighting

• Fixed to buildings where possible
• Uniformity and appropriateness of design
• White light rather than orange where possible

 2.6     Bollards

• Reduction to minimum necessary
• Appropriateness of design
• This preliminary audit does not include examples of all the above.