Policy information sourced from Dartmouth Park Neighbourhood Plan

DC3 Requirement for Good Design

Require that all developments demonstrate good quality design, responding to and integrating with local surroundings and landscape context. In Dartmouth Park good design means:

  1. achieving high quality design that respects the scale, mass, density and character of existing and surrounding buildings and preserves the open and green character of the area;
  2. relating developments to the urban landscape value of the street setting, including respecting the established orientation and grain of existing development, established building set-backs, and arrangements of front gardens, walls, railings or hedges;
  3. relating developments to established plot widths in the streets where development is proposed, particularly where they establish a rhythm to the architecture in a street;
  4. where multi-storey developments are permitted in accordance with the other policies in this Plan, avoiding juxtaposition of buildings of significantly different scale and massing and incorporating a gradual transition from the scale of the surrounding built context where appropriate;
  5. ensuring that any extensions or modifications to existing buildings are subordinate to the existing development and in keeping with its setting, including the relationship to any adjoining properties;
  6. using good quality materials that complement the existing palette of materials used within the immediate area;
  7. providing within the development boundary sufficient appropriately sited and well integrated amenity space, refuse and recycling storage, bicycle and mobility vehicle parking and storage, and delivery space (as appropriate to the size and type of development) to ensure a high quality and well managed streetscape; and
  8. in construction or alteration of shopping and other commercial frontages in the Neighbourhood Centres, ensuring that the development contributes positively to the accessibility, sense of place and individual character of the Centre. In particular, solid external security shutters and shops that do not provide access to everyone will be resisted.

For more information please see the Neighbourhood Plan