Review of non-academic literature and resources relating to community severance

The UCL Street Mobility and Network Accessibility team has conducted reviews of academic literature on aspects of community severance. These reviews, distilled into previous working papers in this series, have led the team to conclude that academic approaches to the assessment and remediation of community severance are rarely applied in practice. Nevertheless, effort is clearly made by practitioners – such as local authorities, and community and pressure groups – to quantify and tackle the impacts of community severance. The UCL team intends to translate its research findings into advice and a toolkit of resources to better equip practitioners in prevention, or identification and solution of, community severance-related problems. This review of non-academic literature and resources concerning community severance provides an insight into current practice, enabling development of pertinent research evidence-based advice and tools for practitioners.