Policy information sourced from the Reigate & Banstead Local Plan - Development Management Plan

DES2: Residential garden land development

Development of residential garden land, including infilling schemes and development on back garden land, will be required to comply with the following criteria:

  1. Proposals must:
    1. be designed to respect the scale, form and external materials of existing buildings in the locality to reinforce local distinctiveness
    2. be of a height, bulk, mass, and siting to ensure the development is in keeping with the existing street scene
    3. for infilling, incorporate plot widths, front garden depths, building orientation and spacing between buildings in keeping with the prevailing layout in the locality
    4. provide well-designed access roads, with space for suitable landscaping and maintain separation to neighbouring properties
    5. retain mature trees and hedges, and other significant existing landscape features, and include grass verges and street planting that supports wildlife and maintains green corridors
    6. demonstrate they have been carefully designed to ensure a good standard of amenity for all existing and future occupants; and
    7. not create an undue disruption to the character and appearance of an existing street frontage, particularly where the form and rhythm of development within the existing street frontage is uniform.
  2. Proposals that would cumulatively result in multiple, closely spaced access points through the existing street frontage will be resisted.

For more information please see the Reigate & Banstead Development Management Plan