Stratford-on-Avon District Design Guide
Key Principles
- Protecting character through design policy
Details
In the late 1990s, prior to full revision of their Local Plan, Stratford-on-Avon District Council members felt the need to address issues of local distinctiveness and sustainability. To that end they supported a resolution that, for planning purposes, all development should be local, equitable and sustainable.
This resolution was the foundation for the Stratford-on-Avon District Design Guide (2001). The guide works on the premise that the existing built environment should be seen as a design resource.
Characteristic patterns at different levels of scale from the landscape down through settlements, streets, highways and open space, plot series, plots, buildings, materials and details provide a framework within which new development can accommodate both continuity and change.
Since its foundation, the guide has been successful in helping to deliver a wide range of schemes across the District which respond to the characteristics of the area, yet are contemporary and innovative. This includes a number of schemes which have been short-listed for the Council’s Design Award.
Other Information
- Location: Stratford-on-Avon
- Project Team: Stratford- on- Avon District Council, Warwickshire County Council
- Contact: www.stratford.gov.uk/
