Policy information sourced from the Kensington and Chelsea Local Plan
CR4 Streetscape
The Council will require improvements to the visual, functional and inclusive quality of our streets, ensuring they are designed and maintained to a very high standard, that street clutter is removed and that street furniture, advertisements and signs are carefully controlled to avoid clutter to support the Council’s aim of driving up the quality of the borough’s streetscape.
To deliver this the Council will:
- require all work to, or affecting, the public highway, to be carried out in accordance with the Council’s Streetscape Guidance;
- require all redundant or non-essential street furniture to be removed;
- retain, and seek the maintenance and repair of, historic street furniture such as post boxes and historic telephone kiosks, where this does not adversely impact on the safe functioning of the street;
- require that where there is an exceptional need for new street furniture that it is of high quality design and construction, and placed with great care, so as to relate well to the character and function of the street;
- resist adverts that by reason of size, siting, design, materials or method of illumination, including on street furniture, harm amenity or public or road safety;
- resist freestanding structures such as telephone kiosks where the function for the display of adverts over-dominates the primary purpose for the structure, whether sited on streets, forecourts or roadsides;
- resist pavement crossovers and forecourt parking;
- require all major development to provide new public art that is of high quality and either incorporated into the external design of the new building or carefully located within the public realm. Where such provision is not appropriate, the Council may seek planning contributions for the provision of public art. New public art proposals should be developed in consultation with the Public Art Panel.
For more information please see the Kensington and Chelsea Local Plan