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date	02/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Shared Spaces: Visual Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to ensure that town designs that remove navigation tools used by blind and partially-sighted people to navigate, including kerbs and controlled crossings are not rolled out during the Government's halt on dangerous shared-space schemes.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	284849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>The focus of the pause is on level-surface schemes in areas with relatively large amounts of pedestrian and vehicular movement, such as high streets and town centres (outside of pedestrian zones). Local authorities are responsible for the design of their streets. It is for them to ensure any pedestrian environment scheme, including a shared space, is inclusive and meets the requirements of the Equality Act 2010.</p><p> </p><p>If local authorities had already let contracts to build a scheme, or it was already under construction, because any changes to the design may be costly or impractical, to avoid additional financial burdens, the pause only applies to schemes that were at the design stage, where changes could be more easily made at the time that the pause was announced.</p><p> </p><p>Ministers meet regularly with groups representing disabled people, including those representing blind and partially sighted people, to discuss a wide range of inclusive and accessible transport issues. Officials in my Department also work closely with a wide range of stakeholders on many issues including shared space schemes, the opportunities they offer and the challenges they pose.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani grouped question UIN 284856 284920 question first answered 05/09/2019 11:28:14 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

1143363

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Shared Spaces: Visual Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with organisations representing blind and partially-sighted people on the safety of shared space schemes for those people.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	284856
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>The focus of the pause is on level-surface schemes in areas with relatively large amounts of pedestrian and vehicular movement, such as high streets and town centres (outside of pedestrian zones). Local authorities are responsible for the design of their streets. It is for them to ensure any pedestrian environment scheme, including a shared space, is inclusive and meets the requirements of the Equality Act 2010.</p><p> </p><p>If local authorities had already let contracts to build a scheme, or it was already under construction, because any changes to the design may be costly or impractical, to avoid additional financial burdens, the pause only applies to schemes that were at the design stage, where changes could be more easily made at the time that the pause was announced.</p><p> </p><p>Ministers meet regularly with groups representing disabled people, including those representing blind and partially sighted people, to discuss a wide range of inclusive and accessible transport issues. Officials in my Department also work closely with a wide range of stakeholders on many issues including shared space schemes, the opportunities they offer and the challenges they pose.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani grouped question UIN 284849 284920 question first answered 05/09/2019 11:28:14 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

1143949

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Shared Spaces: Visual Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to ensure that the halt to shared space schemes remains in force until new designs are considered to be safe by blind and partially-sighted people.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	284920
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>The focus of the pause is on level-surface schemes in areas with relatively large amounts of pedestrian and vehicular movement, such as high streets and town centres (outside of pedestrian zones). Local authorities are responsible for the design of their streets. It is for them to ensure any pedestrian environment scheme, including a shared space, is inclusive and meets the requirements of the Equality Act 2010.</p><p> </p><p>If local authorities had already let contracts to build a scheme, or it was already under construction, because any changes to the design may be costly or impractical, to avoid additional financial burdens, the pause only applies to schemes that were at the design stage, where changes could be more easily made at the time that the pause was announced.</p><p> </p><p>Ministers meet regularly with groups representing disabled people, including those representing blind and partially sighted people, to discuss a wide range of inclusive and accessible transport issues. Officials in my Department also work closely with a wide range of stakeholders on many issues including shared space schemes, the opportunities they offer and the challenges they pose.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani grouped question UIN 284849 284856 question first answered 05/09/2019 11:28:14 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley