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I live in a village that is on what was once a Strategic route. A motorway was built as a bypass, however, the tables have turned and the village is now on the bypass for the motorway! Satnavs now direct drivers to come through the village whenever there is a delay on the motorway. The Highways Authority reduced the parking on our main road when the Lockdowns started. This provided a brilliant demonstration of the damage this could do, as the retailers depend on passing traffic to provide 80% of their customers. The residents, in turn, depend on the retailers. Inevitably, new housing estates are planned. As a member of the Neighbourhood Plan group for the village, I'm interested to know if there is someone who could use a Vision-led approach to propose ways of handling this 'Wicked-problem'.

LTN’s are fundamentally unfair for a few reasons: Firstly, they’re arbitrary. We all live in neighbourhoods and many are busy, why should some busy neighbourhoods be graced with LTNs and others not? It’s impractical to LTN every busy neighbourhood therefore some will receive arbitrary favour and others not. That’s blatantly unfair. Secondly, LTNs merely funnel traffic elsewhere to other neighbourhoods as drivers seek different routes/rat-runs so LTNs are unfair on those impacted neighbourhoods. Thirdly, LTNs are unsustainable- our roads are a finite resource and as more LTNs are created, it reduces shrinks the space for everyone especially for those who live in areas with poor transport connections. It’s unsustainable. Fourthly, we all pay road tax but residents of LTNs get access to more roads than those who don’t…that’s unfair.

thank you so much, this is a hidden gem for me as an urban planning student. my thesis is about shared space and public realm, this is so helpful and i earn a lot of information just from this video! bless you

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Councils need to take the initiative. They have inflicted CPZs upon us so that off street parking is the only “free parking”. Annual permits cost £1500 and you can only use them to park in designated bays. Using pebbles, stones, slate or shingle allows drainage and looks nicer than paving. I have this and am looking into getting some shrubs for the sides.

Great seminar. It always amazes me how backward we are in this country. Even our closest partners are ahead. M4S needs updating and I would like to see it being altered to a distance of 2m from the edge of the highway and to the offside road unless the road is straight - I have so many arguments with LPA Planners on this and its unnecessary.

Half of the households in London do not have cars and private transportation is just a nuisance for them. More LTNs please!

Great content and thanks for posting. Would great to also include a link to the presentations if possible.

Queen Elizabeth Square was not known as The Dampies? No the Hutchie E houses were the Dampies. Although QES did have it's problems .

I think the Architectural qualities (Style, color, etc.), building height, and building materials are the determining factors. It could be dangerous to mix abstract expressionism, symbolism, etc. with architecture and urban design, which often leads to ugly places.

You should enable the like/dislike ratio bar, I almost decided to skip the video because of that

Now look at council plans for high traffic areas. Allowing more cars is not the solution.

This is brilliant!! Looking forward to this types of case studies and real life examples

Couldn't agree more with the final conclusions. Design should be landscape led with green orientated design. The pandemic has really rammed home the importance of healthy and active places that are pleasing and sociable, offering a break from the home environment where working and relaxing both happen now. The street and block led approach of the NMDC as mentioned, just really resonants an attempt to improve the functionality of the built environment of the 1980s with social/leisure and greening just an after thought.

These LTNs are really a nuisance and our roads are not designed well enough for this scheme to be implemented in London. Im a delivery driver and ive seen first hand how much pollution is accumulating on our high streets just because we are all forced to divert onto the high street and sit in idle traffic. Its not working at all. The amount of times ive seen ambulances stuck and also not knowing how to get onto certain roads is shocking. I see it nearly every single day. Someone could be dying and they arent able to get to them on time! Ive seen cars reversing down residential roads because the road is blocked and they cant do a u-turn to go the other way. That in itself is very dangerous! Our roads arent coping with this and i have been doing deliveries for a good while. Ive seen the changes on the high street. People are breathing in that idle pollution from cars sitting in traffic. Its terrible. The only thing i see is that this is agenda to purposely cause more pollution and congestion so that they have the narrative to go along with extending the congestion charge further. This is going to be a money grab yet again! We pay road tax for what? If we have to pay road tax then im of the opinion that cyclists should do too! Im not against cyclist because i ride on the weekends but this whole thing is a joke. What angers me most is that they did all this during a pandemic where people are frightened to sit on a bus and even go out walking to the shops. People feel safer in their own cars but no, the government wants them to leave their cars and walk the streets which has more possibilities to potentially catch covid! The timing is so off it is really unbelievable! Instead of spending all that cash with these ridiculous blockades, it could have been better spent elsewhere! There is no compassion for the people! Im ashamed by the fact that these people run our country, the incompetence of the decisions they've made has no concern for people trying to survive this pandemic. Shame on Sadiq!!!

no sense

Hiding the comments and removing the likes dislikes options speaks volumes

How about barriers to those people who are disabled that now can't get out because the people that used to pick them up can't make enough time to pick them up. Or how about the added dangers you now put motorcycle riders in due to them being forced to drive on the busiest roads all the time. How about the people who would love to cycle but can't due to injuries but used to drive or ride a motorcycle but now find themselves either stuck in traffic all the time or having to deal with traffic much worse than ever before even during lockdown. Let's all jump on a bike great if you are physically fit and able bodied, we can't even use electric scooters which would have gone a long way towards helping those unable to pedal or find it difficult pedalling. But so long as bicycles are ok right why should you people give a toss about anyone else right.

When you say motor vehicle you mean motor cars right? So where do motorcycles fit into all this, why are they considered so terrible? You keep saying motor vehicle why not be more accurate and explain the truth, motorcycles are much safer than cars but are always lumped into the same pot. Motorcycles kill very few each year compared to cars, in fact probably on par with bicycles, and yet motorcycles are lumped in with cars as being the road problem, no they are the solution to the car for some and would cut pollution parking and road accidents.

restricting our movement for social justice ? ... no words

Only Bicycle 🚲 Riders are enjoying these LTN ROAD CLOSURES.. Some of us are not able to ride bicycles for health reasons and walking is not always possible in the case of long distance journeys.

Too many roads are closed... MORE BICYCLES ARE BEING STOLEN 🤷🏾‍♀️ Impact of LTN is NOT GOOD for HACKNEY 🤐 We did Not have any CONSULTATION.

I'm all for road closures and ltns in my Central London area. Traffic is a blight

But the traffic on LTN boundary roads, which in inner London are often already at capacity, has resulted in large increases in traffic and often standing traffic. The losers of LTNs: are bus users with increased journey times; those that live on or near congested main roads who suffered from increased pollution; those in LTNs whos roads facilitate the access and consequential have more traffic; the public finances due to their cost; disabled car users, particularly those using them for work; those who need a vehicle for work such as engineers and surveyors; the elderly; people who might need an ambulance to get to them quickly or need a fire engine (model filters even if opened restrict or make it difficult for emergency vehicles My local authority in inner London implemented many LTNS some adjoining each other without modelling how the traffic would work and without consulting. Well thought out LTNs may work, rushed implementation will make them unpopular and difficult to role out more of them in the future.

Simply question are you a green party member or supporter

Interviewer seems to have sat on a "ninja-proof seat" ie with back against the wall for subconscious feeling of security (according to an article by Lily for Psychology Today). However, Lily herself has her back exposed.

excellent nous session

You don't have to be a Catholic or Christian to love a beautiful Cathedral/Church. It's' architectural heritage, not religious heritage. And Vienna is not a religious city what so ever.

Ah so you are one of the people responsible for these bonkers schemes. I'd love to know how you think disabled people will be impacted? Personally as a disabled woman I don't feel safe walking about in my area where the two highest rates of crime are antisocial behaviour and sexual violence which are also the two crimes that have increased during covid but yeah you want to make people like me less safe whilst making sure the middle class boys in lycra have even more space to piss people off.

Great to hear Nial Murphy speaking. Pity you kept calling him Neil 🤣🤣

Amazing talks thank you for sharing this. I agree with many of the points raised. I think co-operative housing, self builds are the way forward for this country because the market is consistently delivering poor quality substandard homes backed up by many excuses.

Thanks for sharing those nice ideas

Thanks so much for uploading this video! It really helped me understand the concept and write my paper. Thank you!

Putting al the museums all at the same grounds is a bad idea. The district will be overloaded during peak tourist hours and dead out of opening hours. Businesses like restaurants or bars will have a difficult time, only having a limited time window where customers are around. Other neighborhoods where a museum could be a useful addition are lacking one, since there can only be so many museums in a city of a given size.

This is very intersting but nobody seems to discuss the role of permaculture resillence, especially the aspect of food and landscape as a means of engaging people in the climate change debate.

great speech，I finally could see a presentation by an expert from sasaki talking about their work.

Great Webinar. Thank you all.

If you are seriously thinking of joining or starting a cohousing group then you should visit facebook.com/Considering-Cohousing-2357455264501206. and read about the many pitfalls before you get started. We had many years direct experience and have also done extensive research. Well worth checking out if you are thinking of joining or already a member.

Excellent video. As a local authority planner that has delivered a SHELAA and subsequent site allocations, I know first hand that the current model of identifying the best land from a potentially bad lot is not the most sustainable way to enhance our settlements. Unfortunately, as the gentleman alludes to the system is geared towards delivering housing first and discussing design later (if at all). This is demonstrated in the NPPF's focus on deliverable and developable housing sites, which is thus the major concern for Local Authorities and Planning Inspectors at examinations.

Thank you for the good presentation, but i think good design here need to be related more to Urban form than rural developments

very interesting lecture, thank you, Dr.

I completely agree that we anthropomorphize everything and it's annoying; however, it seems true in my experience, at least related to geographic locations, that there is a personality of a city and a place. I'm interested in checking out his books.

Not in my Front Yard

My street is now very ugly (Ironically with the "Gardens" in the name of the street). I think we have a duty to present a pleasant frontage to neighbours and those passing by. But I am a lone voice... and am moving out of my ugly street to somewhere people dont/cant pave over

Thank you for sharing this. Very useful.

nice project and presentation, well done!

it's awesome Dr. I learned a lot. thank you so much

Incredible event that was the best ever for me so far

Thank you. I found this video to be quite insightful.

I still don't understand how people are going to access these spaces?