DCAN 8: Housing in Existing Urban Areas
Detailed Design Principles
3.16 The strategic urban design principles provide the framework for a series of more detailed design principles. The main considerations relating to each of these principles are as follows:
- Creating a safe environment
- Clearly defining public and private space
- Ensuring adequate privacy and daylight
- Providing appropriate garden and amenity open space
- Creating an attractive landscape setting
- Responding to opportunities created by corner sites
- Providing for enhanced public transport, walking and cycling facilities
- Accommodating car parking and determining the appropriate level
- Different options for accommodating car parking Communal and grouped surface parking
- On-street parking
- Basement parking
- Dedicated parking
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