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2 Design and Heritage
2 Design and Heritage
Implementing Core Strategy Policy
This chapter helps implement the following Core Strategy Policies:
Policy 8 Enhancing Islington’s character, Policy 9 Protecting and Enhancing Islington's Built
and Historic Environment, Policy 10 Sustainable Design, Policy 12 Meeting the housing
Challenge, Policy 14 Retail and Services, Policy 15 Open space and green infrastructure,
Policy 16 Play space, and Policy 17 Sports and recreation provision
2.0.1 The Core Strategy sets out the overarching strategy for urban design and the historic
environment in Islington while the Islington Urban Design Guide (IUDG), (a Supplementary
Planning Document (SPD)), provides more detailed guidance. The Core Strategy
acknowledges Islington’s unique character and the need to conserve and enhance its
historic urban fabric whilst not stifling contemporary architecture or innovation. Traditional
street patterns and the perimeter block approach are encouraged as part of new
development, which should also respect the importance of human scale.
2.0.2 Islington aspires to the highest standards of architectural and urban design in London, to
be at the forefront of sustainability and to preserve and enhance the borough’s built heritage
and its settings. Innovation and tradition need to be complementary for successful physical
regeneration and achievement of high quality inclusive public spaces. The following policies
suggest ways Islington can achieve these aspirations.
Policy DM 1
Design Criteria
A. All forms of development are required to be of high quality, incorporate inclusive
design principles, and make a positive contribution to the character and local
distinctiveness of an area.
For a development proposal to be supported it is required to:
i. be sustainable, durable and adaptable;
ii. be safe and inclusive;
iii. improve the quality, clarity and sense of spaces around or between buildings;
iv. enhance legibility and have clear distinction between public and private spaces;
v. sustain and reinforce a variety and mix of uses;
vi. improve movement through and repair fragmented urban form;
vii. respect the historic context, local vernacular, and locally distinctive patterns of
development and landscape;
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