ST05a. HOME ZONES (& QUIET LANES)
(updated: June 19, 2006 )

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• N.B. also the RTPI library catalogue on the web - go to http://www.rtpi.org.uk/library/lib_search.html
  
  and these websites:-
• Childrens' Play Council Home Zones: http://www.ncb.org.uk/cpchz.htm
• Childrens' Play Council Home Zones (site for residents): http://www.homezones.org.uk
• David Engwicht (Queensland, Australia): http://www.lesstraffic.com/Traffic_Calming_2.doc
• Designing Streets for People site (Urban Design Alliance): http://www.icenet.org.uk/streets/
• Home Zone News: http://www.homezonenews.org.uk/
• Home Zones newsletter (produced by the Childrens' Play Council, with support from DfT, Sustrans & Transport 2000), available from Pennie Hedge, CPC, London, tel. (020) 7843 6016, email: cpc@ncb.org.uk
• Home Zones: http://www.homezones.org.uk
• National Register of Access Consultants: http://www.nrac.org.uk
• People site (Urban Design Alliance): http://www.icenet.org.uk/streets/
• Slower Speeds Initiative: http://www.slower-speeds.org.uk
• Sustrans: http://www.sustrans.org.uk/liveableneighbourhoods
• Transport 2000: http://www.transport2000.org.uk
• TRL Molasses database of road safety schemes: http://www.trl.co.uk/molasses
• N.B. other sources of information on Home Zones:-
• - Transport 2000 Streets for People network: http://www.speed-campaign-info.fsnet.co.uk/s4p.htm
• - Childrens Play Council: http://www.ncb.org.uk/cpchz01.htm
• - Slower Speeds Initiative: http://www.slower-speeds.org.uk

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* indicates most useful and/or up to date references

Barrell & Whitehouse, 2004, 'Home zones - An Evolving Approach to Community Streets', Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 157, pp257-265

Biddulph, Mike, 1999, 'Home Zones: Reducing the Impact of the Car in Residential Areas', the Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood Newsletter, Issue 9.
Biddulph, Mike, 2001, 'Building Community Involvement in Home Zones', Joseph Rowntree Trust, ?November
Biddulph, Mike, 2001, 'Home Zones: A Planning and Design Handbook', ISBN 1 86134 371 X, Joseph Rowntree Foundation / York Publishing Services, York, December, http://www.jrf.org.uk (and c.f. JRF Findings, December 2001) (OFL on 7.5.02)
Biddulph, Mike, 2002, 'Prioritising home zone treatments in Brighton and Hove', Cardiff University.

Brownbridge, Neil & Jackson, Lesley, 2004, 'Ask the family' (involving residents in the decision process in a proposed Home Zone in Middlesborough), Surveyor 191 (5764), 4.3.04, pp18-20

Clayden, Andy; Mckoy, Keith; Wild, Andy Wild, 2006, ‘Improving Residential Liveability in the UK: Home Zones and Alternative Approaches’, Journal of Urban Design 11 (1), February, p55, http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=U61H100843R58V25

Cooper, Phil, 2002, ''Haphazard' start for home-grown home zones', Urban Environment Today 156, 19.9.02, pp6-7

Cumberbatch, Suzanne, 2005, 'Sea change at resort' (Home Zone in Blackpool), Surveyor, 9.5.05, p21

CROW (Netherlands) publications available from CROW, Galvanistraat, Postbus 37, NL-6710, BA-Ede, Netherlands
tel. +1 318 620410, fax. +31 318 621112, email: crow@crow.nl
- website: http://www.crow.nl :
'Van Woonerf tot erf' (Dutch Home Zones), English-French-German, 1989.
'ASVV - Recommendations for traffic provisions in built-up areas', March 1998. ISBN 90 6628 265 7.

Department for Transport (DfT)
Great Minster House, London SW1P 4DR
- website: http://www.dft.gov.uk
'Quiet Lanes and Homes Zones Consultation', August 2004, http://www.info4local.gov.uk/searchreport.asp?id=21191&heading=e-mail+alert
'Home Zones: Challenging the future of our streets', November 2005, at: http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_susttravel/documents/page/dft_susttravel_610454.pdf

Department for Transport (DfT) Traffic Advisory Leaflets
available from TAU Publications, Charging and Local Transport Division, Zone 3/23,
Great Minster House, London SW1P 4DR,
tel. (020) 7944 2478, email: tal@dft.gsi.gov.uk
DfT (& former DOT/DETR/DTLR) Traffic Advisory Leaflets, available at http://www.roads.dft.gov.uk/roadnetwork/ditm/tal/
'8/02: Home Zones - Public Participation', December 2002, http://www.roads.dft.gov.uk/roadnetwork/ditm/tal/traffic/08-02/index.htm
‘3/04. Quiet Lanes’, 2004.

Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (DTLR) (from June 2001 to May 2002):
'Home Zone Challenge Guidance to Prospective Bidders', July 2001, http://www.local-transport.dtlr.gov.uk/hzone/index.htm
'Home Zones and Quiet Lanes: consultation on statutory guidance and regulations', August 2001, http://www.local-transport.dtlr.gov.uk/consult/home-zones
'Traffic Advisory Leaflet 10/01 Home Zones - Planning and Design', December 2001, http://www.roads.dtlr.gov.uk/roadnetwork/ditm/tal/traffic/10_01/index.htm

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) (June 1997 - June 2001)
- website: http://www.detr.gov.uk/
NB: DETR replaced from June 2001 to May 2002 by the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (DTLR)
'Places, Streets and Movement: A companion guide to Design Bulletin 32', TSO, 1998.
''Towards an Urban Renaissance: The Report of the Urban Task Force chaired by Lord Rogers of Riverside', Routledge, June 1999. ISBN 1 851121 65X (Executive Summary available from DETR Free Literature, Wetherby and at http://www.detr.gov.uk (OFL on 29.6.99)
*'Planning Policy Guidance Note 3: Housing' (revised version), TSO, March 2000, ISBN 0 11 75346 X, and at: http://www.planning.detr.gov.uk/ppg3/index.htm
'Planning Policy Guidance Note 13: Transport', March 2001, and at http://www.planning.detr.gov.uk/ppg/ppg13/index.htm

Dudley, Geoff, 2003, 'Quiet Lanes aim to enable rural road users to live in harmony' (delivery of the Quiet Lanes concept), Local Transport Today 369, 26.6.03, pp10-11.

Feature, 1999, 'Residents to take lead in nine pilot Home Zones - but will lack of legislation hold them back?', Local Transport Today, 12.8.99

Forster, Andrew, 2005, 'Residents back retro-fit Home Zones but future lies in new building housing estates', Local Transport Today 431, 21.11.05, p9

Fyson, Anthony, 1999, 'Home zones need legal changes to function properly', Planning 1331, 13.8.99.
Fyson, Anthony, 2001, 'Competition impairs home zone projects', Planning 1433, 24.8.01, p9

Graham, David, 2005, 'Community's in charge' (Bristol Home Zone), Surveyor, 16.6.05, p16-18

Hamilton-Baillie, Ben & Iles, Jeremy, 2000, 'Some thoughts on developing Home zones in the UK' (report on interim findings on home zones schemes in the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Germany', further information from James Ryle, Sustrans, Bristol, tel. (0117) 926 8893.
Hamilton-Baillie, Ben, 2002, 'Reconciling People, Places & Transport', Velo City '01 Conference, Edinburgh, Glasgow, September 2001, available on the Conference Proceedings CD, funded by the Scottish Executive and distributed by Spokes, Edinburgh, tel. +44 131 313 2114, email: spokes@spokes.org.uk ISBN 0 9507319 7 8 Y, £10.00 including postage & packing.
Hamilton-Baillie, Ben, 2002, 'Home Zones - Reconciling People, Places and Transport: Report of a a Study Tour of Denmark, Germany, Sweden and The Netherlands', Harvard Design School, Harvard University, USA
Hamilton-Baillie, Ben, 2002, 'No sign of the times' (cutting vehicle speeds without extensive traffic-calming measures: lessons from Continental European experience), Surveyor 4.7.02, p13

Health Community Research Programme:
'A guide to doing a prospective health impact assessment of a home zone', 2002,
http://www.health-community-research-programme.bigstep.com/generic35.html
'The Morice Town Home Zones: a prospective health impact assessment', 2002,
http://www.health-community-research-programme.bigstep.com/generic35.html

Home Zones Scotland Network, 2003, ‘The Scottish Home Zone Survey’, Home Zones Scotland Network.

Institute of Highway Incorporated Engineers (IHIE), 20 Queensbury Place, London, SW7 2DR, tel. (020) 7823 9093
- website: http://www.ihie.org.uk
*'Homeward bound: Home Zone Design Guidelines', June 2002, (Oversize HT153.I6)

Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), 1 Great George St., London SW1P 3AA, tel. (020) 7537 3631
- website: http://www.ice.org.uk
'Returning Roads to Local Residents', ICE for the Urban Design Alliance, July 2000 (OFL on 12.7.00)

Jones, Philip, 2000, 'Zoning safer streets' (Home Zones), Planning 1396, 24.11.00.
Jones, P. et al, 2002, 'Home Zone Design Guidelines', The Institute of Highway Incorporated Engineers.

*Joseph Rowntree Foundation (author: Mike Biddulph), 2001, 'Home Zones: A Planning and Design Handbook', York Publishing Services, York, December, http://www.jrf.org.uk

Kennedy, J.V; Wheeler, AH & Inwood, C.M, 2004, 'Norfolk Quiet Lanes Scheme', TRL Report 603, Transport Research Laboratory, Crowthorne, Berkshire.
Kennedy, J.V; Wheeler, AH & Inwood, C.M, 2004, 'Kent Quiet Lanes Scheme', TRL Report 603, Transport Research Laboratory, Crowthorne, Berkshire.

Layfield; Chinn & Nicholls, 2003, ‘Pilot Home zones schemes: evaluation of The Methleys, Leeds’, TRL Report 586, TRL, Crowthorne, Berkshire.

Layfield, R; Webster, D & Buttress, S, 2005, 'Pilot Home zone schemes: Evaluation of Magor Village, Mounmouthsire, TRL Report 633, Transport Research Laboratory, Crowthorne, Berkshire.

Oxfordshire County Council, 2002, 'Home Zones guide for housing developers', Oxfordshsire County Council, Local Transport Team, Environmental Services, Speedwell House, Speedwell Street, Oxford OX1 1NE.

Robinson, Katherine, 2006, 'Into the mainstream' (SUDS and Home Zones), Surveyor, 2.3.06, pp12-14

Royal Dutch Touring Club (Allgemene Nederlandse Wielrijders Club), 1980, 'Woonerf', ANWB, The Hague.

Smith, Graham Paul, 2002, 'Homezones and Traffic calming: implications for cyclists', Chapter 5 in McClintock, Hugh, (ed.), 2002, 'Planning for cycling: Principles, Practice and solutions for urban planners', Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge. ISBN 1 85573 581 4, September (HE5736.B4).

Streets for People Network (Transport 2000), 2002, 'Taming the traffic', Streets for People, London, tel. (020) 7613 0743, November.

Thomas, Rik, 2004, 'Home Zones: vital urban tool or a luxiry councils find hard to afford?', Local Transport Today 402, 7.10.04, pp12-13

Tilly, A; Webster, D & Buttress, S, 2005, 'Pilot Home Zone Schemes: Evaluation of Northmoor, Manchester, TRL Report, Transport Research Laboratory, Crowthorne, Berkshire.

Totton, Belinda, 2001, 'Welcome home' (home zone proposals in Magor, Monmouthshire, Wales), Surveyor, 8.11.01, pp16-17.

Transport 2000 Trust & Sustrans, 2004, ‘Home zone pilots: lessons to be learnt’, Transport 2000 Trust & Sustrans, London & Bristol.

TRL (Transport Research Laboratory), Crowthorne, Berkshire;
- website: http://www.trl.co.uk.
'The Methleys (Leeds) Home Zone before and after study', TRL Report TRL586, 2003.summary at http://www.trl.co.uk.
'Northmoor (Manchester) Home Zone Evaluation', 2005.
'Pilot Home Zones: Evaluation of Magor village', Monmouthshire, June 2005.
'Pilot Home Zone schemes: evaluation of Morice Town, Plymouth', TRL640, September 2005.
Pilot Home Zone schemes: evaluation of the five roads area, Ealing', TRL 646, November 2005.
Pilot Home Zone schemes: summary of the schemes', June 2006.

Webster, D; Tilly, A & Buttress, S, 2005, 'Pilot Home Zone schemes: Evaluation of Cavell Way, Sittingbourne', TRL Report 626, Transport Research Laboratory, Crowthorne, Berkshire.

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