Barking and Dagenham - BC2: Accessible and Adaptable Housing

Policy information sourced from Barking and Dagenham Borough Wide Development Policies DPD

POLICY BC2: ACCESSIBLE AND ADAPTABLE HOUSING

In addition to requiring developers to meet the London Plan targets on Lifetime Homes and wheelchair accessible homes, the Council encourages major and strategic housing schemes to incorporate a proportion of ‘super-flexible housing’.

Examples of components of super-flexible housing include (but are not limited to):

Open plan or flexible floor plates.
Foundations to attached garages to accommodate potential first floor extensions.
Garage space which can easily be converted into living space.
Open truss roof structures designed to facilitate future dormer/upwards extensions dwellings to be built with basements which can be easily converted to living space.
Construction with integral wall lintels to allow, for example, two 3 bed units to be co-joined together to create one 6 bed unit.
Provision for interchange between employment and residential space (e.g. live-work units).

For more information please see the Borough Wide Development Policies DPD