We found that large new housing areas in England were very rarely built with a new station to cater for future residents.
Category: Parking
What places designed around the car look like
Urban form follows the transport modes that are available.
Apartments can offer everything on your doorstep
Apartments offer so much compared to lower density estates.
Convenient town centre housing in every town
We are exploring how swathes of land given over to parking could be put to better use.
‘Jigsaw puzzle’ developments are creating car-dependent estates
New housing estates have some of the most important pieces missing.
What do we mean by good design?
Some examples of what we mean by good design.
New homes conveniently situated on the bypass
Join us on a visit to a new housing estate on the edge of Warminster.
Transit-oriented development built without the transit
The curious case of the transit-led scheme that is missing the transit.
New “cowpat” housing developments are adding to traffic congestion and locking communities into car-dependency
New research has found that greenfield housing estates are adding hundreds of thousands of new car journeys to our roads, increasing congestion, carbon emissions and air pollution.
Transport for New Homes: a story told in postcards
John and Jill have been house-hunting in some recently-built developments. They sent these postcards back to show what they found.
Since John and Jill don’t drive, they have been using trains and buses to get to the new housing areas, sometimes with adventures on the way. In the end they do find places to suit their needs and the variety of places they visit is an education in itself…
These postcards are of course fictitious and are generally composites of several new housing developments. However they serve to highlight some of the issues that Transport for New Homes sees as important to planning, namely walkability, living without a car, and good access to public transport and cycling networks.
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