Kensington and Chelsea - CR2 Three-dimensional Street Form

Policy information sourced from the Kensington and Chelsea Local Plan

CR2 Three-dimensional Street Form

The Council will require that where new streets are proposed, or where development would make significant change to the form of existing streets, the resultant street form and character must draw from the traditional qualities and form of the existing high quality streets.

To deliver this the Council will:

require appropriate street widths to be established with regard to the legibility of the street function and hierarchy;
require the ratio of building height to street width to give a coherent and comfortable scale to the street;
require building lines and building scales to be consistent and related to context;
require a frequency and rhythm of building entrances and windows that support active street frontages and optimises community safety;
require a clear distinction to be maintained between public, private and communal space through the retention and provision of characteristic boundary treatments.

NOTE: Refer to Policy CL1(b) with regard to context.

For more information please see the Kensington and Chelsea Local Plan