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Shared space: a proper Peer review

Even their Lordships are, quite literally, getting in on the debate

John Dales
19 February 2010
Part of the Ashford Ring Road project – it has got kerbs, but are they big enough?
Part of the Ashford Ring Road project – it has got kerbs, but are they big enough?
Part of Cheltenham High Street – flush kerbs, but years old, so no-one calls it a shared surface!
Part of Cheltenham High Street – flush kerbs, but years old, so no-one calls it a shared surface!
Another part of the same scheme – no kerbs but is it actually unsafe?
Another part of the same scheme – no kerbs but is it actually unsafe?

 

This Week, for the very first time in my life, I read an extract from Hansard (the official record of the debates that go on in the Houses of Commons and Lords). The reason I did so is because I’d been tipped off that the noble Lords, as they call themselves, had debated the matter of ‘Shared Space’ and, naturally enough, I sought enlightenment.

The Hansard transcript is entitled a ‘Short Debate on Shared Space/Surfaces’, and I’m here to tell you that (a) in...

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John Dales

John Dales

John Dales MSC BSC MCIHT CMILT Director, Urban Mov

John Dales is a streets design adviser to local authorities around the UK, a member of several design review panels, and one of the London mayor’s design advocates. He is a past chair of the Transport Planning Society, a former trustee of Living Streets, and a committee member of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety. He is director of transport planning and street design consultancy Urban Movement. 

 

j.dales@urbanmovement.co.uk
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