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Guide Dogs Streets Ahead campaign PDF Print E-mail

The charity Guide Dogs has launched a campaign named Streets Ahead. This campaign aims to improve streetscapes and, in particular, to make them more accessible for visually impaired people.  Details of the campaign can be found below: 

'Have you ever?
 
  • tripped on a broken kerb?
  • been hit in the face by an overhanging bush?
  • injured yourself walking into A-Boards on your local high street?
  • felt unsafe due to the close proximity of traffic driving by?
  • struggled to find a safe place to cross the road?

 We aim to provide blind and partially sighted people with the tools to help them engage with their local authorities and developers and ensure that inclusive design principles are at the heart of new projects.

We aim to work with engineers, architects, town planners and other urban design professionals so that the needs of blind and partially sighted people are well understood and that they are properly consulted at the earliest possible opportunity and not as an afterthought.

We want more councils to follow the lead of ones like Manchester City Council in their decision not to have shared surface streets in residential areas and consider the needs of all people using streets at the beginning of the design process.
 
We aim to inform local shopkeepers and councillors about the unnecessary nuisance of A Boards and other poorly positioned street furniture.
 
We aim to change the behaviour of inconsiderate motorists, whose thoughtless parking is damaging pavements. This costs councils millions of pounds in repairs, can cause injury to blind and partially sighted people, and impede their passage and that of other disabled people along our footways.
 
We aim to show householders that by maintaining their hedgerows, taking the time to trim overhanging branches and thinking about where they put their wheelie bins, they can help to make using our footways easier and safer for blind and partially sighted people - and at the same time make their own environment more attractive.'
 
To find out more about the Streets Ahead campaign, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or visit the Guide Dogs website