Place Making

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Below are the questions within Place Making. The questions are grouped by issue.

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To ensure that the most sustainable sites are used for development and that the design process, layout structure and form provide a development that is appropriate to the local context and supports a sustainable community.

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Efficient use of land
2.1	To ensure the most effective and efficient use of land, applying a sequential approach.
Landscaping
2.2	To ensure that the landscaping scheme is appropriate to the local environment whilst respecting and responding to wider local landscape characteristics.
Form of Development, (permeability)
2.3	To achieve visual and physical links that makes it easy to find the entrance points to the development and to navigate around and through.
2.4	To create a place with a clear identity that is easy to understand and navigate.
2.5	To ensure that building frontages encourage pedestrian usage of streets contributing to vitality.
2.6	To ensure that the development responds to local character whilst reinforcing its own identity.
2.7	To encourage the use of Sustainable Urban Drainage (SUDS) to reduce flood risk, improve water quality and enhance biodiversity/amenity for the development and/or for the surrounding area.
2.8	To ensure access to high quality green space for all.
2.9	To promote outdoor recreation, health and community interaction within a planned network of green infrastructure that accomodates multifunctional public green spaces.
Mix of Use
2.10	To ensure that new buildings (including refurbishments of existing buildings on site) can be adapted to the demands of new uses.
2.11	To prevent social inequalities and foster a socially inclusive community .
2.12	To apply design principles to increase the security of the development and to clearly define public and private space, (See table 5.1 Urban Design Compendium, p88), as part of urban design principles.
2.13	To ensure that heritage or archaeologically important features are conserved or preserved if present.
Noise polution
2.14	To reduce the impact of noise upon the development.