By the mid-1960s, the City of London Corporation had incorporated the scheme into its development plan. Although no coherent network was ever defined,The Pedway: Elevating London, by Chris Bevan Lee (at 28 minutes) designers of new developments were required to incorporate first-floor access to the Pedway network as a condition of being granted planning consent. As most of the network had not been built, this meant that many developments incorporated unused "dead space" at first-floor level and partial walkways that led to dead ends. In consequence, the scheme was unpopular with many architects.L. Humphries (1974), "Architecture of the Gollins Melvin Ward Partnership"
