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Bentleys Meadow

The Home Zone layout keeps vehicle speeds low

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Location: Seal, Sevenoaks TN15 0DB

Built: unknown

Developer: West Kent Housing Association

Type: rural

Density: 0 homes per hectare

Parking ratio: 135%

A substantial part of a former council housing site was redeveloped, with one part using a conventional street layout and the other a Home Zone. The latter attracted mixed responses from those who responded to surveys in 2007 and 2010. Views on parking, for example, were polarised, rather than neutral.

Despite residents' uncertainty about the Home Zone approach, Bentleys Meadow is a good, if small, example of the concept. The juxtaposition between conventional and Home Zone almost won the redevelopment a place on the cover of Manual for Streets.

Parking provision takes the form of spaces behind, beside and in front of the dwellings, with limited opportunities to park awkwardly without obstructing through traffic.

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Space submitted by Bob White

14 February 2014