Home Zones

(asked on 1st February 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of establishing more Home Zones.


Answered by
Andrew Jones Portrait
Andrew Jones
This question was answered on 6th February 2017

Home Zones are residential areas with streets designed for very low vehicle speeds which better suit the needs of pedestrians and cyclists. The aim is to change the way streets are used in order to improve quality of life by reducing the dominance of motor traffic. Local authorities are free to install them using powers under the Transport Act 2000 without reference to the Department.

The Home Zones Challenge Fund, set up in April 2001 to encourage the development of home zones in England, funded 59 schemes across 56 authorities. These are listed in the table below. The Department does not hold information on how many other Home Zones are in place, or where they are located, as local authorities do not have to inform the Department when they install them.

Authority

Scheme location

Luton

Haymarket Green

Norfolk

Cavell Road, Norwich

Peterborough

New England

Suffolk

Cambridge Road, Lowestoft

Darlington

Pateley Moor Crescent

Gateshead

Tyne Park

Middlesbrough

Gresham Area

North Tyneside

The Triangle

Northumberland

Cowpen Quay, Blyth

South Tyneside

Cleadon Park

Blackpool

Talbot and Brunswick

Bolton

Oldham’s Estate

Bury

Aston Estate

Cheshire

Egerton Street Area, Chester

Lancashire

Poulton Area, Morecambe

South West Area, Burnley

Liverpool

Grafton Street

Manchester

Northmoor Phase 2

Rochdale

Wardleworth

St Helens

Bidston Avenue

Tameside

Ashton West End

Trafford

Addiston Crescent

Warrington

Whitecross

Wigan

Browning Street

Wirral

Dundonald & Methuen Streets

East Sussex

Town Farm Estate, Hailsham

Hampshire

Castle Grove, Porchester

Kent

Northcourt Estate, Denton

Oxfordshire

Saxton Road, Abingdon

Reading

Kingsbridge Road

Southampton

Radcliffe Road

Surrey

Nutley Lane, Reigate

West Sussex

North West Bognor Regis

Bath & North East Somerset

Albert Avenue, Peasedown St John

Bristol

Southville

Cornwall

North Close Estate, Redruth

Devon

Wonford Estate, Exeter

Plymouth

Morice Town

Wiltshire

College Community Area, Trowbridge

Westleigh Area, Warminster

Birmingham

Pitts farm, Erdington

Staffordshire

Silkmore, Stafford Wilmot Drive, Newcastle under Lyme

Telford and Wrekin

West Woodside

Wolverhampton

Fordhouses

Worcestershire

Duke of Edinburgh Way, Malvern

Derby

Normanton

Nottingham

Kennington Road Area

Kingston upon Hull

Albany Street

Kirklees

Moorside Estate

Leeds

Littlemoor

North Lincolnshire

Crosby/Frodingham, Scunthorpe

Bromley

Rookery Gardens, St Mary Cray

Camden

Lupton Street

Greenwich

Deptford Green

Haringey

Linden Road

Kingston upon Thames

Cavendish Road

Newham

Cranberry Estate

Southwark

Sutherland Square

The Department has not made any recent assessment of Home Zones. The design of streets in their care is a matter for local authorities. In recent years there has been a significant step change in attitudes to street design, with the focus increasingly on creating streets that function as places and communities. Home Zones are one tool that can help achieve these aims. We promote this approach more generally through design guidance such as the Manual for Streets.

Although the Government provides maintenance funding to local authorities, the Department provides no specific funding for the maintenance of Home Zones. Local authorities have a duty under Section 41 of the Highways Act 1980 to maintain the highways network in their area. It is for each individual authority to assess which parts of its network are in need of repair and what standards should be applied, based on their local knowledge and circumstances.

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