Scottish Government launches 'Designing Streets' planning guide

09/03/2010

The Scottish Government has launched a new planning document which places greater emphasis on making streets pleasant places where people can walk and cycle safely, and moving away from designing streets around optimum flow of motor traffic.

Designing Streets is the first policy statement in Scotland for street design and marks a change in the emphasis of guidance on street design towards place-making and away from a system focused upon the dominance of motor vehicles. It has been created to support the Scottish Government’s place-making agenda and is intended to sit alongside the 2001 planning policy document Designing Places, which sets out government aspirations for design and the role of the planning system in delivering these.

You can download it from the Scottish Government website here.