Policy information sourced from the The Dartford Plan
Policy M9: Residential Amenity Space
Residential development must provide sufficient and high quality amenity space to meet the health, recreation and functional needs of occupants and to contribute to good design, wellbeing and wider environmental objectives. Sites should be laid out to provide for private amenity space requirements and contribute to multi-functional green infrastructure, where possible.
The design of all private and communal amenity types and spaces must be attractive, enable maximum functionality for the end users and be suitable to the location and character of the development. In this respect, the applicant must demonstrate how the following, as a minimum, have been taken into consideration and provided within the design:
- Good sunlight and fresh air;
- Leisure and recreation space;
- Children’s play needs;
- Storage space sufficient for the needs of likely occupiers;
- Relative privacy and tranquillity as appropriate to the setting;
- Opportunity for food growing where possible; and
- Accessible and secure entrances.
To achieve this aim, all new build residential development must provide a quantity of private amenity space that is:
- Clearly ample for each house in a development. This should be predominantly a single area, provided through an attached (preferably spacious rear) garden; and
- sufficient and highly usable in the form of a balcony, winter garden, terrace or garden for each flat in a development.
Policy information sourced from the The Dartford Plan