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Manual for streets explains how to design, construct, adopt and maintain new and existing residential streets.
A guide to best practice in street design for highway authorities and housing developers.
Includes street cleaning, traffic lights and reporting problems
'Manual for streets 2' expands on the design advice in 'Manual for Streets 1' to include how to plan and improve busy urban and rural streets.
This document is aimed at anyone working to improve their high street, town centre or retail area.
A guide to organising a street party - telling your council, closing roads, getting insurance and licences
Your local council is responsible for sweeping streets and removing litter - report any problems to your local council
New guidance will help to design activity into our neighbourhoods and reduce congestion on the roads during school run times.
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