A Manual for streets proposal to limit the size of waste-collection vehicles to avoid ever-wider residential streets has been welcomed. The draft manual, published for consultation last week, recommends that new residential streets are not ‘overdesigned’ because vehicles have been getting bigger, but planned instead for vehicles – currently or expected to be – in use. Edward Chorlton, Devon County Council’s environment director, welcomed the advice. ‘We should design vehicles for our streets, not the other way round,’ he said. Some waste authorities have been using larger vehicles up to 11.6m long to reduce operating costs. He also applauded the manual’s attempt ‘to tackle the thorny issue of wheelie bins’ by urging a highway authority say on proposals for managing waste in new housing.