Policy information sourced from the Kingston Town Centre Area Action Plan Chapter 6
K9: DESIGN QUALITY IN THE TOWN CENTRE
The Council will require the highest standard of design in all new development and proposals should:
- Respect and enhance the town centre’s distinctive character and historic environment
- Respond to local context, scale and character, in terms of historic street patterns, siting, density, massing, height, appearance, plot widths, building lines and materials
- Safeguard the panorama and key views (Plan 6)
- Make best use of redevelopment opportunities
- Be accessible and inclusive
- Provide active and attractive frontages to adjoining streets and spaces
- Create high quality landscaped spaces and connections to surrounding streets
- Incorporate best environmental practice in design and layout, use sustainable construction techniques and renewable technology, appropriate to the type and scale of development
- Reduce opportunities for crime and achieve Metropolitan Police ‘Secured by Design’ (or subsequent) accreditation
The Council will promote the redevelopment and improvement of areas of lesser quality, including vacant and underused sites and the provision of distinctive exemplary quality contemporary architecture in key locations on the following Proposal Sites to provide new landmarks to reinforce identity and improve legibility:
1. Eden Quarter area (P2 and P3)
2. Kingston Station (P10)
3. Town House Site, Kingston University (P16)
For more information please see the Kingston Town Centre Area Action Plan Chapter 6