Policy information sourced from the Chelmsford Local Plan 2013-2036 PDF.
DM26: Design Specifications for Dwellings.
A) All new dwellings (including flats) shall comply with all of the following:
- Achieve suitable privacy and living environment for residential occupiers; and
- Achieve sufficient private amenity space; and
- Provision of open space; and
- Achieve appropriate internal space through adherence to the Nationally Described Space Standards; and
- Provide appropriate and well designed recycling and waste storage.
The above must be in accordance with the standards as set out in Appendix B, unless it can be demonstrated that the particular site circumstances allow for a lower provision.
B) All houses in multiple occupation shall:
- Achieve sufficient communal garden space; and
- Provide cycle storage for one cycle per-bedroom, within the plot of the building in which the property is located; and
- Provide appropriate and well designed recycling and waste storage within the plot of the building in which the property is located, or a communal store where the development relates to more than one property; and
- Provide off-street parking at a ratio of one space per-bedroom unless the site is located within the City Centre.
The above must be in accordance with the relevant development standards within the Local Plan.
For more information, please visit Chelmsford’s Local Plan here.