Section 3: Place Making and Design Principles [PDF] - South Norfolk ...

3.3.2 Integrate with surroundings
The Development Management DPD
will provide an evidence base and
policies for the relationships between
neighbouring properties.
Where there is a street or footpath along
a site boundary then new housing should
face outwards to create a frontage.
Where a site is bounded by rear
gardens, then new housing should
back onto the boundary so that private
gardens areas adjoin one another.
There may be some situations where this
is not possible to achieve, in which case
new housing must be designed with care
to maintain reasonable levels of security
and privacy for existing occupiers.
Where an open space is proposed next
to a site boundary that adjoins existing
rear gardens, it must be designed so
that:
• the open space is well supervised by
built development; and
• the rear of existing properties is
secure.
Integrating with countryside
Where new development is proposed
at the edge of a settlement then the
boundaries should soften the edge, by:
• their position, so that they sit into the
landscape, for instance by following
contours;
• their alignment, so that they are
informal and made up of smaller scale
elements; and
• planting, so that the edge is ‘green’.
Relevant evidence
Development proposals should show the
site together with its immediate context,
to locate the position of surrounding
routes and neighbouring development.
The Design & Access Statement should
demonstrate how the new development
will link into the local route network for
vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians. It
should also identify important desire
lines across the site.
Make sure that routes for pedestrian and
cyclists are direct and follow desire lines
Main Contents
Section 3 Start
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Uses and
activities
3.3 Accessibility
3.4 Site assets
3.5 Character
3.6 Development
form
3.7 Public realm
3.8 Design
quality
3.9 Performance
3.10 Worked
example
How is it evaluated?
• Is the local route network identified,
including footpaths and cycle routes
as well as streets?
• Are desire lines across the site
identified?
• Do access points and routes within
the site connect into the surrounding
network in a way that will create direct
and convenient links between the
two?
• Does the development relate
appropriately to the surrounding
pattern of development in terms of
public-private relationships, privacy
and security?
Pedestrian routes linking different parts
of the development together, providing
direct and convenient routes for people
3.6.2
Development
blocks
3.7.1 Supervision
of streets
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