Guidance

Active travel scheme design assurance

How Active Travel England works with local authorities and partners to provide design assurance for active travel schemes.

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Active travel scheme design assurance for local authorities

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Guidance to help local authorities and delivery partners to understand Active Travel England’s design assurance service.

Active Travel England (ATE) offers design assurance for any government-funded active travel or cross-modal scheme.

The aim is to ensure that schemes follow best practice guidance and are high quality, safe and accessible.

The design assurance service take two forms - design surgeries and design reviews. A scheme may go through one or both.

This guidance explains more about the two routes, including information about:

  • objectives
  • eligibility
  • how to apply

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If you have read this guidance and understand what support you want, you can request ATE design assurance support.

Updates to this page

Published 1 August 2024

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