Bedford Borough Council has its own highway design guides, however these are currently being updated and should be read alongside national guidance contained in 'Manual for Streets' and the 'Design Manual for Roads and Bridges' and other guidance below.
In addition to the design guidance, new developments must adhere to the Council's parking standards. The links to all the relevant design guides are shown below:
For more detailed advice when preparing applications for specific developments please use the pre-application advice service.
Highway design guides
- 1 National guidance for architects and highways consultants
- National guidance for architects and highways consultants
- Parking Standards for Sustainable Communities: Design and Good Practice SPD
- Traffic Calming - Streets for People SPG design guide for low speed residential streets (This is being updated) (PDF)
- Highways Development Control Design Guide SPG (This is being updated) (PDF)
- National guidance (PDF)
- Waste & Recycling in New Developments Technical Guidance (inc. highway design)
- National guidance
- National guidance
- National guidance (PDF)
- National Guidance
- National Guidance (PDF)
- National guidance (PDF)
- National guidance (PDF)
- National guidance (PDF)
- National guidance