Streets // Residential Distributor Streets
Our ‘residential distributor’ type streets use generous planting to mitigate the presence of cars passing through, while providing attractive places for pedestrians and cyclists. The combination of street trees, high quality planted verges and well defined front boundaries create a street rich in greenery, and a an attractive place to live.
Residential Distributor Streets Design Criteria
All residential distributor type streets should comply with the follow design criteria ;
The street layout below shows a worked example for a 50 metre length of a residential distributor street typology to demonstrate regulatory compliance, and prove how the street design criteria can be delivered.
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Residential Distributor Streets : Precedent Projects
Hobson Avenue, Cambridge Hobson Avenue is an exemplary reference for the level 2 streets because of its strong green character and role as a primary access road for the Great Kneighton neighbourhood. The street is exemplary for its street tree planting, green verges, integrated parking, and traffic calming near schools and public spaces. Additionally, the street uses shared space intersections to calm traffic within the neighbourhood. Points of misalignment with the public realm vision include the understorey planting, the lack of bike lanes, the use of asphalt for the pavement, and a lack of SuDS.
Ingress Park, Dartford, Kent Ingress Park Avenue is a local precedent for the level 2 streets because of its strong green character and role as a primary access road. The street is exemplary for its street tree planting, green verges, integrated parking, and landscaped traffic calming features to make crossing points safer for pedestrians. Additionally, the street uses traditional kerbs heights to define parking bays and limit illegal parking. Points of misalignment include the understorey planting, the lack of bike lanes, the use of asphalt for the pavement, and no inclusion of SuDS.
