Planning Policy ContextSDS 2“To be successful, any new development needs to be based on a good understanding of local context… The positive features of the area should be identified and reinforced in any new proposal.”The <strong>Sandgate</strong> Design Statement has been prepared by thecommunity of the parish of <strong>Sandgate</strong> to supplement thepolicies of the Shepway District Core Strategy (2013), theadopted guidance of the Kent Design Guide (2006), and incompliance with the National Planning Policy Framework(2012). In this it has been supported by the Local PlanningAuthority, Shepway District <strong>Council</strong>, through its activemembership on the Steering Group. The <strong>Sandgate</strong> DesignStatement conforms with national, regional and localplanning policies which promote the importance of highquality design.In the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) thegovernment makes clear that it attaches great importanceto ‘local character’ in design of new development,“Developments should respond to local character and history,and reflect the identity of local surroundings and materials,while not preventing or discouraging appropriate innovation.” 2Kent Design Guide, 2006The NPPF t<strong>here</strong>fore includes within its Core PlanningPrinciples the requirements that planning empowers localpeople to shape their surroundings and seek to securehigh quality design, taking account of the different roles andcharacter of distinctive areas. The Shepway District CoreStrategy (Policy SS3) requires that all new developmentsdeliver “an insistence on high quality and sustainable design”,while Saved Policy BE1 3 requires that a high standard oflayout, design and choice of materials will be expected for allnew development. Materials should be sympathetic to thosepredominating locally in type, colour and texture.Development should accord with existing development inthe locality, w<strong>here</strong> the site and surrounding developmentare physically and visually interrelated in respect ofbuilding form, mass, height, and elevational details. Forlarge, complex or sensitive sites, a design statement willbe required to include consideration of local landscapecharacter and distinctiveness.Compliancewith theDevelopmentPlanDevelopment shouldbe consistent with theNational Planning PolicyFramework (2012), thepolicies of the ShepwayDistrict Core Strategy(2013), the Saved Policiesof the Shepway DistrictLocal Plan (2006), theprinciples and objectivesof Kent Design (2006) andof this Design Statementand should acknowledge,preserve and enhance thebuilt and natural heritageof the parish of <strong>Sandgate</strong>.2National Planning Policy Framework, DCLG 20123This Policy has been saved because it sets out basic design principles in keeping with the requirements of PPS1. In addition the Kent Design Guide SPDwhich was adopted against this policy needs the maximum possible lifespan.6 SANDGATE DESIGN STATEMENT 2013
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