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

DES5: Delivering high quality homes

All new residential developments (including conversions) must provide high quality, adaptable accommodation, and provide good living conditions for future occupants. All new accommodation must:

  1. As a minimum meet the relevant nationally described internal space standard for each individual unit except where the Council accepts that an exception to this should be made in order to provide an innovative type of affordable housing that does not meet these standards.
  2. Be arranged to ensure primary habitable rooms have an acceptable outlook and where possible receive direct sunlight.
  3. Be designed to minimise the disturbance to occupants from other land uses nearby and/or sources of noise and pollution (see also DES9).
  4. Provide a convenient and efficient layout, including sufficient circulation space and avoiding awkwardly or impractically shaped rooms.
  5. Incorporate sufficient space for storage, clothes drying and the provision of waste and recycling bins in the home.
  6. Make adequate provision for outdoor amenity space, including balconies and roof terraces, and/or communal outdoor space.

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