The 6Cs Design Guide

This is a revised edition, published November 2011.  Please follow the links below for lists of changes:

• Complete list of changes 2012
• Complete list of changes 2011
• Changes up to 2008 through to 2010

'The 6Cs Design Guide deals with highways and transportation infrastructure for new developments in areas for which Derby City Council, Derbyshire County Council, Leicester City Council, Leicestershire County Council and Nottinghamshire County Council are the highway authorities (Please see Figure IN1).

It replaces the previous authorities individual documents.  It is copyrighted and may not be used by other authorities for the purposes of development control. Rutland County Council District Council has its own, separate, adopted guidance documents. For developments in Rutland, you must contact that authority and refer to its documents and not to the 6Cs Design Guide'.

Please note: the companion documents, 'Specifications for highway works for new developments' and 'Standard conditions applying to highway works for new developments', are presently only available in Portable Document Format (PDF).

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Contents

• The 6Cs design guide (6CsDG) Foreword
• Part 1: Introduction: Provides important information about this document and about us, the Highway Authority, and our policies and objectives (including our Highways Development Control and Access to Road Network policies). Please read in full first if you have not used this document before.
• Part 2: Preparing development proposals: Guidance on preparing and considering proposals. Explains when we normally require transport assessments, travel plans and other supporting information.
• Part 3: Design guidance: Sets out our normal requirements, and is intended to help you design layouts that provide for the safe and free movement of all road users. Also covers parking for cars, service vehicles, cycles and motorbikes.
• Part 4: Materials and construction: Sets out our normal requirements and how we will deal with alternative proposals. It also includes details on our commuted sums policy, including how we calculate them, what we normally charge them for and schedules of rates.
• Part 5: Adopting new roads and the advance payments code: Guidance to help you get your roads adopted under Section 38 of the Highways Act. It also sets out our advance payments code procedure, which covers both roads that are to be adopted and those which are to remain private. Our fees and other payments are also set out.
• Part 6: Working on existing highways - Section 278 procedures: Guidance to help the efficient construction of works affecting the existing public highway. Our fees and other payments are also set out.
• Part 7: Appendices
  • Appendix A: Useful contact details, including our details and those for the planning authorities.
  • Appendix C: Assessing the transport impacts of development proposals (includes some information on travel plans too). Explains how you should normally prepare an assessment, including guidance on preparing a scoping report and criteria for assessing traffic impacts.
  • Appendix D: Additional information on safety audits, including when they should normally be carried out.
  • Appendix E: Additional information on private area requirements. Explains why we normally require certain design features.
  • Appendix F: Preservation of trees. Detailed guidance to determine which trees should be retained and how best to protect them during and after construction works.
  • Appendix G: Landscaping on new developments, including advice on appropriate species to plant.
  • Appendix H: Air quality management zones. Details of their location.
  • Appendix I: Our other procedures. Details on other matters that may need to be taken into account in preparing development proposals, for example traffic regulation orders.
  • Appendix J: Advance payments code (APC) - gives background information on the APC and how it is applied in Leicestershire.
  • Appendix K: Tell us what you think - please complete the form included in this appendix if you have any comments on Htd. Any suggested changes will be considered through our review process, which is also included.
  • Appendix L: Definition of streets
• Part 8: Glossary
• Part 9: Bibliography  

Companion documents to 'The 6Cs Design Guide''

• Specifications for highway works for new developments - PDF
• Standard conditions applying to highway works for new developments - PDF
• Standard drawings

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