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Design Principle L 3: Development must not fill theentire width of a plot and should leave sufficient roomon all sides of the building for planting and to allowviews through.Buildings should not visually merge with one anotherand a sense of separation between buildings should beretained. There must be planting between buildings tocreate the layered effect of development and plantingthat is typical of Woldingham.4.6 Development should be laid out in such a way thatit leaves sufficient room for appropriate buffer zones to trees(in accordance with BS 5837:2005) so that existing and newtrees and shrubs have the opportunity to mature and growto their full size. See also Section 7 on further informationregarding the integration of landscape.Figure 4.4: Photos of houses that have agenerous distance between boundary andbuilding, allowing space for planting.Figure 4.5: Negativeexample: the houseis too close to theboundary.Figure 4.7: Positive example: Houses are separatedfrom one another and there is enough spacebetween them for an appropriate planting screenand sense of spaciousness.√GapGap blockedView to backgroundView blockedFigure 4.8: Negative example: Houses mergewith one another and the hedge alone does notprovide an appropriate landscape screen oradequate gap.XFigure 4.6: sketch illustrating the loss of boundary plantingand loss of views.©TiBBalDS MaRCH 2011Woldingham Design Guidance11