Built Form

Development must be designed to integrate with its existing surroundings on the basis of the  principles set out in Section 3.2opens new window and below.

All residential and mixed-use development must maximise opportunities to front onto existing streets to establish a strong and active street presence.

All residential and mixed-use development must respond to and assimilate with the prevailing pattern of surrounding built form, unless there is a strong design reason for deviating from it.

All development must maximise opportunities to knit together existing and proposed built form, for example at settlement edges. Any green buffering must be limited to a site's countryside edge(s) where required.