STREETSCAPE GUIDANCE

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INTRODUCTION
PART A
A vision for London’s streets
PART B
From strategy to delivery
PART C
New measures for new challenges
PART D
Balancing priorities
PART F
Appendix
PART E
Physical design and materials
SECTION 6
Introduction
SECTION 7
High quality footways
SECTION 8
Carriageways
SECTION 9
Crossings
SECTION 10
Kerbside activity
SECTION 11
Footway amenities
SECTION 12
Safety and functionality
SECTION 13
Street environment
SECTION 14
Transport interchanges
Streetscape Guidance
[Part E – Physical design and materials] High quality footways 82
Land use changes and public realm design
New active frontages and building uses should
be supported by reconsidering the design of the
public realm where practicable. This may include
providing space for outdoor seating, additional
soft landscaping and other measures to support
social activities and new land uses.
Any revisions to the street design should
coordinate with new building accesses and
changes in pedestrian behaviour.
Street furniture should be relocated and merged
where appropriate and respond to the new
character of the development where appropriate.
Figure 83: More London’s active frontages are
supported with seating, planting and water
features
Street improvements
Where building heights are increased, there will
likely be greater pedestrian flows to and from the
development. This may provide justification for
increased footway widths, cycle parking and new
crossing facilities.
New buildings may provide additional
opportunities to enhance the public realm
through integrated facilities such as mounted
lighting as part of the architecture, relocated
street furniture, and enhanced wayfinding.
New buildings will likely require additional cycle
parking to support the development. Designers
should check building plans and internal parking
facilities to establish whether additional cycle
parking is required at street level. For further
information about requirements on the TLRN,
please contact our Borough Planning team by
email at boroughplanning@tfl.gov.uk
Additional information
Department for Transport:
Manual for Streets, 2007
Greater London Authority Economics:
Retail in London, 2006
Transport for London:
Transport assessment best practice: Guidance
document, 2010
Existing forecourts
The building setback distance and front boundary
treatments significantly affect the character of
the streetscape. We encourage developers to
carefully consider the adjacent footway material
so that the transition is visually cohesive with the
street.
Where a forecourt area is provided, developers
are encouraged to use Streetscape Guidance’s
recommended materials, to provide a more
cohesive high-quality finish that transitions
seamlessly with the street.
When working on the TLRN, should developers
wish to extend the forecourt material to the
kerb edge, SDRG approval is required. Materials
should be suitably robust, slip resistant and
maintainable. We will generally assume the
maintenance liability for surfaces which extend
across the footway for approved exceptions
to the streetscape palette, but only up to the
private property boundary.