Briefing: Manual for Streets Available to Purchase

This briefing provides a concise summary of the UK Department for Transport (DfT) publication Manual for Streets (MfS), which gives guidance to those involved in planning, designing, providing and approving new residential streets and modifications to existing ones.

The MfS aims to stop

Streets make up the greater part of the public realm. (1.1.2) Places and streets that have stood the test of time are those where traffic and other activities have been integrated successfully and where buildings, spaces and the needs of people — not just their vehicles — shape the area. (Foreword)

MfS focuses on lightly trafficked residential...