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5.0 General Design Guidelines
The Village Core
Urban Design
Principle
Materials
Issue Urban Design Guidelines
The buildings within the village core have a consistent palett e of materials - stone, brick,
render and slate.
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Materials to be used within the village core should age well and weather well.
The materials specifi ed in the table below are the ‘base materials’ to be used in a building.
While glass is obviously permitt ed, buildings where the enti re façade is glazed should not generally be permitt ed. For
the design of façades the relati onship between solid (wall) to void (openings) is important, and this is expressed as a
percentage where the minimum recommended ‘solid’ is to comprise 40% of the façade. The maximum recommended
void or glazed area is expressed as 60% of the façade.
Walls Roofs Windows
Stone Metal Sheeti ng with raised seams
(Zinc, Copper etc.)
Timber
Brick (in various bonds) Slate (in various fi nishes) Extruded Metal (excluding uPVC)
Metal
(Copper, Aluminium)
Concrete
Render
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