Policy information sourced from Euston Area Plan
Strategic Principle EAP 2: Design
A: Development and change will create an integrated, well connected and vibrant place of the highest urban design quality, which builds on existing character and provides an attractive and legible environment for local people, workers and visitors.
B: Any proposals should fully address the following key urban design principles:
- Improving connectivity by enhancing existing and providing new east-west and north-south links, reinstating the historic Euston area street pattern and improving wayfinding;
- Transforming the public realm through improvements to streets and the buildings that front them;
- Providing active frontages along key streets to enliven streetscapes and make them attractive and safe routes;
- Creating a network of new and improved open spaces and squares;
- Ensuring that development is of the highest architectural quality and designed to be accessible to all;
- Responds to the viewing corridors, scale and character of existing buildings, and context;
- Protecting and enhancing heritage assets and their settings that are sensitive to change; and
- Ensuring world class station design and a comprehensive approach to above station development.
C: While the strategic viewing corridors will limit development heights in the Euston area there may be some opportunities for taller buildings subject to design, heritage and policy considerations.
For more information please see the Euston Area Plan