Beyond Poundbury

An adopted highway in Poundbury

Removing the roadblocks: Highways, hierarchy and shared surfaces

10 June 2010
A.K. Bell Library; 2-8 York Place, Perth, Scotland

Based this year in Scotland in the City of Perth, take the opportunity to discover how sustainable low carbon communities based on linked walkable neighbourhoods, mixed uses and compact urbanism, should be intimately linked to the design, construction and maintenance of roads and streets.

With the imminent twin publication of ‘Manual for Streets 2’ and ‘Designing Streets’, this timely event will tackle a range of relevant topics including:

• Transport and Neighbourhoods
• Manual for Streets 2 / Designing Streets
• Road Development Guide / SUD’s for Roads
• Sector 7 Agreement

How a new, more sustainable approach can be encouraged and delivered in the UK and particularly Scotland, is the purpose of this event and your input will be highly valued.

This event will build on last year’s event in Poundbury which looked at how new principles were forged through the design and building of this advanced example of sustainable urbanism. This event examined how the Duchy of Cornwall, their design team and West Dorset District Council together forged a new way forward for highway design in the UK in the early 1990s. Speaker David Taylor, partner at Alan Baxter, was instrumental in producing detailed designs based on European models of traditional urbanism—the basis of the Poundbury masterplan by Léon Krier. One of the keys to the success of the venture involved working from precedent that clearly worked in practise, rather than following regulations that had gone unquestioned for too long in the UK. How this information was gathered on location, assessed, and then turned into an acceptable code, will form part of this discussion.

Speakers include:

Hank Dittmar, CEO of The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment
Jim McKinnon, Chief Planner, Scottish Government
Andrew Cameron, WSP Group
John Thomson, Perth & Kinross Council / The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment
DfT representative, to speak on the Manual for Streets 2

Of interest to:

Those seeking to design and deliver sustainable infrastructure, across the whole of the built environment:

• Highways engineers
• Infrastructure designers
• Transport engineers and policy makers
• Urban designers from the public or private sector
• Architects and landscapes architects
• Managers and directors of urban regeneration
• Local government representatives
• Private developers

View details and presentations from the 2009 seminar