Guidance

Streets for a Healthy Life

A guide to best practice in street design for highway authorities and housing developers.

Applies to England

Documents

Streets for a Healthy Life

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This guide is a technical companion to ‘Building for a Healthy Life’, which is a design assessment tool and guide for new and growing neighbourhoods.

‘Streets for a Healthy Life’ provides examples of UK streets that meet the requirements for ‘healthy streets’ set out in ‘Building for a Healthy Life’.

Updates to this page

Published 15 July 2022
Last updated 4 August 2022 + show all updates
  1. Added accessible version of pdf

  2. First published.

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