Policy information sourced from the Haringey Development Management Plan
DM12: Housing Design and Quality
- All new housing and residential extensions must be of a high quality, taking account of the privacy and amenity of neighbouring uses (see Policy DM1) and are required to meet or exceed the minimum internal and external space standards of the London Plan and the Mayor’s Housing SPG.
- Ground floor family housing should provide access to private garden/amenity space, and family housing on upper floors should have access to a balcony and/or terrace, subject to acceptable amenity, privacy and design considerations, or to shared amenity space and children’s play space.
- In areas of especially poor residential environmental quality, development proposals should seek to include enhanced provision of green infrastructure, including the quantity and quality of landscaped areas, tree provision and, where the site allows, the provision of additional open space.
- Mixed tenure residential development proposals must be designed to be ‘tenure blind’ to ensure homes across tenures are indistinguishable from one another in terms of quality of design, space standards and building materials.
Residential Extensions
- Extensions or alterations to residential buildings, including roof extensions will be required to be of a high, site specific, and sensitive design quality, and respect and/ or complement the form, setting, period, architectural characteristics, detailing of the original buildings, including external features such as chimneys, and porches. High quality matching or complementary materials should be used appropriately and sensitively in relation to the context.
- New rooms created by an extension should comply with space and amenity requirements set out in the London Plan Mayor’s Housing SPG.
- Proposals for residential extensions should have regard to the Council’s relevant Supplementary Planning Documents, where appropriate, including the South Tottenham House Extensions SPD.
For more information please see the Haringey Development Management Plan