Policy information sourced from the Barking & Dagenham Local Plan
SP2 Delivering a high-quality and resilient built environment
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The Council will promote high-quality design, providing safe, convenient, accessible and healthy inclusive developments and interesting public spaces for all through:
- adopting a design-led approach to optimising density and site potential by responding sensitively to local distinctiveness
- ensuring that developments relate to their local context, incorporating and interpreting local character and, where applicable, using this to inform detail, materials and landscape, which will reinvent the borough as a distinctive place in its own right
- ensuring developments create well-designed homes that are accessible and flexible enough to accommodate different ways of living
- supporting development that aims to create attractive, engaging spaces which are more likely to be well-used and resilient for the future
- supporting development that improves and facilitates active lifestyles, and improves the wellbeing of new and existing communities
- supporting development that harnesses the potential for improved quality and innovative Modern Methods of Construction (MMC), and adheres to Policy DMSI 1: sustainable design and construction
- adopting the Circular Economy principles in the design of developments, demonstrating actions taken to reduce resource use and embodied carbon throughout the building lifecycle and aiming to achieve net zero-waste in line with the principles and requirements of the London Plan 2021 Policy SI 7: reducing waste and supporting the circular economy
- preserving or enhancing the borough’s heritage such as Eastbury Manor House, Valence House Museum, the Abbey Ruins and Dagenham Village, as well as conservation areas, and both designated and non-designated heritage assets in accordance with the Policy DMD 4: Heritage assets and archaeological remains.
For more information please see the Barking & Dagenham Local Plan