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Category: Walking

  • Housing targets direct new homes to public transport deserts

    Housing targets direct new homes to public transport deserts

    21 November 2024

    Car dependency is caused by a system that puts houses in unsustainable location.

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    Posted in: Buses, News, Planning, Public transport, Rail, Research, Walking
  • Unseen power of engineers and transport planners

    Unseen power of engineers and transport planners

    4 November 2024

    Guest post from Mark Philpotts, the founder of City Infinity,

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    Posted in: Cycling, Design, News, Planning, Walking, Wheeling
  • What do we mean by good design?

    What do we mean by good design?

    28 October 2024

    Some examples of what we mean by good design.

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    Posted in: Cycling, Design, News, Parking, Planning, Public transport, Walking
  • The Swedish solution – sustainable transport and new apartments

    The Swedish solution – sustainable transport and new apartments

    21 October 2024

    Two development areas on the outskirts of Uppsala are good examples of the completely different Swedish approach.

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    Posted in: Buses, Cycling, Design, News, Planning, Public transport, Rail, Trams, Walking
  • New homes conveniently situated on the bypass

    New homes conveniently situated on the bypass

    7 October 2024

    Join us on a visit to a new housing estate on the edge of Warminster.

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    Posted in: Buses, Cycling, News, Parking, Planning, Public transport, Rail, Walking
  • Converting retail barns to housing

    Converting retail barns to housing

    23 September 2024

    Conversion of large obsolete car dependent out-of-town retail barns to new uses looks good on paper.

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    Posted in: Buses, Cycling, Design, News, Planning, Public transport, Rail, Walking
  • New homes, wildflowers and a railway station: a visit to Kidbrooke Village

    New homes, wildflowers and a railway station: a visit to Kidbrooke Village

    6 June 2024

    Kidbrooke Village is a large new development of some 4,700 homes in the borough of Greenwich, South East London. The development replaced the 1960s/ 1970s Ferrier Estate which was knocked down to build something completely different. The development is a partnership between local government, housing developers, and community stakeholders and consists of an interesting and unusual

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    Posted in: Design, News, Planning, Public transport, Walking
  • Wichelstowe: a visit to Swindon’s new urban extension

    Wichelstowe: a visit to Swindon’s new urban extension

    29 May 2024

    In May 2024 Transport for New Homes visited a new part of Swindon called Wichelstowe, a large urban extension which has been slowly built up over the last 18 years since it was given planning permission in 2006. Swindon centre itself appears to be in bad need of regeneration with the Brunel Shopping centre having

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    Posted in: Cycling, Design, News, Planning, Public transport, Walking
  • A very different model of development

    A very different model of development

    30 November 2023

    Freiham is specifically designed as a green and pleasant place for walking and cycling and for using public transport.

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    Posted in: Buses, Climate change, Cycling, Design, News, Planning, Public transport, Rail, Walking, Wheeling
  • Upside-down geography

    Upside-down geography

    9 December 2022

    Locations for new housing are not considered in terms of sustainable transport, access to services, employment or environmental impact.

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    Posted in: Buses, News, Planning, Public transport, Rail, Walking
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