Question 2.3

3 of 14 in Place Making

Objective

To achieve visual and physical links that makes it easy to find the entrance points to the development and to navigate around and through.

Importance: ImportanceImportance

Question

Are there physical and visual links between the development and the surrounding area and is the development signage legible and the site permeable to pedestrians?

  1. Are new routes into the site continuations of existing access points from the surrounding area?
  2. How direct are sight lines of existing neighbourhood streets continued through the site?
  3. Are main routes within the site connected directly to main routes in the wider area, without feeding through existing routes with less capacity or with a primary residential function?
  4. Have the needs of the pedestrian been fully considered to achieve a permeable and legible layout?

Targets and Justification

Best
A properly structured urban design hierarchy within the masterplan
Good
A design strategy addressing all four issues
Minimum
See relevant local planning authority standard

Applies to Developments

This question applies to Small, Medium and Large developments.