Policy information sourced from the Westminster City Plan
12. Housing quality
A: All new homes and residential extensions will provide a well-designed, energy efficient and high-quality living environment, both internally and externally. New homes will be designed to a standard that ensures the safety, health and wellbeing of its occupants.
B: 90% of all new-build homes will meet Building Regulation requirements M4 (2) “accessible and adaptable dwellings” and 10% of all new-build homes (including changes of use) will meet Building Regulation requirement M4 (3) “wheelchair user dwellings”.
C: All new homes will meet or exceed the Nationally Described Space Standards (where the units are self-contained).
External amenity space
D: All new-build homes will provide at least five sq m of private external amenity space for each dwelling designed for one-two persons or more and, where practicable, a further one sq m for each additional person the dwelling is designed to accommodate. Where it is not considered practicable or appropriate to provide private external amenity space for all or some homes, the following, measures will be required:
- provision of communal external amenity space; or
- provision of additional and/or higher quality public open space.
E: Where it is sufficiently demonstrated that it is not practicable or appropriate to provide any type of external amenity space, additional internal living space equivalent to the external requirement set out in clause D will be required.
For more information please see the City Plan