This document provides advice and guidance to developers and the public on Swindon Borough Council's current highway requirements relating to both new developments and the redevelopment of existing sites, whilst also giving details of current specifications.

Please note the Council has adopted revised parking standards for residential development and these have been incorporated in to a new technical guidance note on parking standards. It should be noted that parking standards for non-residential development have not been revised and remain the same as those appended to the adopted Swindon Borough Local Plan 2011. To view the document please click on the following link:

Revised Parking Standards

Foreword

Swindon is experiencing major urban expansion and regeneration and as part of these processes, seeks development of the highest quality and most innovative form.

The Government has, this month, given a clear challenge to Local Authorities and developers to think more imaginatively about design and layout with its publication Better Places to Live ‑ a Companion Guide to PPG3.

This document complements By Design and Places, Streets and Movement by drawing together the principles of good urban design.

The Transport Requirements for Development is a clear response from this borough council to the Government's strong recommendation that local authorities have available information that it expects developers to follow.

This document is a clear message that Swindon is a Borough in which development that responds to the Government's challenge can be built with confidence.

Developers and their consultants are urged to make the fullest use of this local guidance and standards document. We look forward to working with the private sector to achieve holistic solutions and urban forms that will be held up nationally as examples of excellence.

	1.0 Overall Guidance and Standards
	2.0 Transport Planning 2.1 General 2.2 Local Transport Plan 2.3 Green Transport Plans 2.4 Accessibility 2.5 Pedestrians and Cyclists 2.6 Bus Priority Measures 2.7 Management of Parking Supply 2.8 Creating Designs that Reduce the Speed of Traffic
	3.0 Residential Roads Detail Guidance & Standards 3.1 Introduction and Road Hierarchy 3.2 Pavement Foundation Design 3.3 Vertical Alignment 3.4 Horizontal Alignment 3.5 Cross Section Details 3.6 Visibility and Sightlines 3.7 Junctions 3.8 Restraints 3.9 Road Widths 3.10 Turning Heads 3.11 Headroom 3.12 Specialist Design Elements Adoptable Elements 3.13 Primary Distributor Road 3.14 District Distributor Road 3.15 Local Distributor Roads 3.16 Major Access Rpads (MaAR) 3.17 Minor Access Roads (MiAR) 3.18 Shared Surface Roads (SSR) 3.19 Bus Priority Measures 3.20 Bus Stops 3.21 Pedestrian and Cycling Routes 3.22 Verges, Service Reservations and Paved Margins 3.23 Parking Bays Non Adoptable Elements 3.24 Shared Driveways 3.25 Driveways 3.26 Turning Spaces for Driveways Improvement Areas 3.27 Swindon Backways
	4.0 Industrial and Commercial Detail Guidance & Standards 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Major Industrial Access Roads (MIAR) 4.3 Industrial Access Roads (IAR) 4.4 Private Access Roads and Individual Development
	5.0 Specialist Design Elements 5.1 Drainage 5.2 Street Lighting 5.3 Statutory and Other Services 5.4 Security from Crime and Vandalism 5.5 Structures 5.6 Traffic Management and Traffic Signals 5.7 Landscaping 5.8 Parking Standards 5.9 Disabled Access
	6.0 Specification 6.1 National Standard Specifications 6.2 Local Standard Specification
	7.0 Standard Drawings
	8.0 Procedural Guidance 8.1 Consultations - Planning 8.2 Guidelines for Transportation Assessment 8.3 Advance Payments Code 8.4 Works on the Public Highway 8.5 Improvement of Public Highway 8.6 Creation of Public Highway 8.7 Street Naming and Numbering 8.8 Highway Agreements - Fee Scale 8.9 The Public Highway 8.10 Safety Audits 8.11 Public Rights of Way 8.12 Inspection 8.13 Commuted Payments
	9.0 Your Contacts
	10.0 Appendices

You can download our Road Adoption Application Form ( Highways Act 1980 Section 38) from here.