Policy information sourced from the Epsom & Ewell Development Management Policies Document

DM 12 Housing Standards

All new housing developments, including conversions, are required to comply with external and internal space standards*.

The Council will only grant planning permission for new dwellings that provide adequate internal space and appropriate external private and/or communal amenity space to meet the needs generated by the development. Development must comply with the space standards set out in the Council’s Design Quality SPD.

Amenity space for all new dwellings should be:

  1. private, usable, functional, safe and bio-diverse;
  2. easily accessible from living areas;
  3. orientated to take account of the need for sunlight and shading;
  4. of a sufficient size to meet the needs of the likely number of occupiers; and
  5. provide for the needs of families with young children where the accommodation is likely to be occupied by such.

* New housing development must comply with 1) Nationally Described Space Standard technical requirements; 2) Document G: Requirement G2 Water Efficiency; 3) Document: Requirement H6 Solid Waste Storage; 4) Document M: Part M Access to and Use of Buildings; and 5) Document Q: Security. The Council’s Design Quality SPD will also contain external/ amenity space standards.

For more information please see the Epsom & Ewell Management Policies Document