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Weedon Hill - Design Code

Now that the district-wide local plan has been adopted, allocating major new developments at Aylesbury, we want to guarantee high quality urban design in these housing areas.

The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) encourages design codes that ensure we get the fundamentals right, such as street widths, distances between buildings, energy performance, etc, but are not so prescriptive that they smother creativity and give little scope for distinctive architectural expression.

The ODPM defines a design code as follows:
A design code is a set of specific rules or requirements to guide the physical development of a site or a place. Its aim is to provide clarity about what constitutes acceptable design quality for developers and local communities. This assists in accelerating the delivery of good quality new development.

The design code builds on the aspirations of a masterplan/development framework and provides a vision, a rationale and a set of requirements (the codes themselves). These can be urban design principles aimed at delivering better quality places and include requirements for streets, mass, blocking and so on, or may be focussed more on architectural or building performance.

The Weedon Hill design code aims to establish clear urban design guidance for the planning of the development to achieve a high quality, sustainable, safe, attractive and desirable environment is which to live work and play. Starting with the design principles in the development brief the developers have worked with both district and county councils to produce a set of design codes which provide minimum standards for elements such as streets, pedestrian and cycle routes, parking arrangements, public areas and detail of architectural features. These codes provide developers with a degree of certainty as to what quality of design will be acceptable to the local authority.

You can get a copy of the Design Code from the following address:

Faulks Perry Culley & Rech
Lockington Hall
Lockington
Derby, DE74 2RH
Call 01509 672772
Fax 01509 674565

Or you can download the documents here. Because they are quite large they are broken down into smaller documents.

Date Published: 28/03/08

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Weedon Hill MDA - Chapter 1	Design Code for the development at Weedon Hill	926KB 56Kbps Modem: 2 Minutes 14 Seconds Broadband : Less than 1 Minute
Weedon Hill MDA - Chapter 2 and 3	Design Code and Local Distinctiveness for the development at Weedon Hill	200KB 56Kbps Modem: Less than 1 Minute Broadband : Less than 1 Minute
Weedon Hill MDA - Chapter 4	Urban Structure for the development at Weedon Hill	523KB 56Kbps Modem: 1 Minute 16 Seconds Broadband : Less than 1 Minute
Weedon Hill MDA - Chapter 4 continued	Urban Structure continued for the development at Weedon Hill	212KB 56Kbps Modem: Less than 1 Minute Broadband : Less than 1 Minute
Weedon Hill MDA - Chapter 5	Grain-scale, heights and massing for the development at Weedon Hill	528KB 56Kbps Modem: 1 Minute 16 Seconds Broadband : Less than 1 Minute
Weedon Hill MDA - Chapter 6	Local Centre - Market Square for the development at Weedon Hill	413KB 56Kbps Modem: 1 Minute no Seconds Broadband : Less than 1 Minute
Weedon Hill - Appendix A	BREEAM and EcoHomes - Summary Identifying the Standards	41KB 56Kbps Modem: Less than 1 Minute Broadband : Less than 1 Minute
Weedon Hill MDA - Design Code 1	Design Code for the development at Weedon Hill	280KB 56Kbps Modem: Less than 1 Minute Broadband : Less than 1 Minute
Weedon Hill MDA - Design Code 2 and 3	Design Code for the development at Weedon Hill - Main Street and the Avenue Standard type	210KB 56Kbps Modem: Less than 1 Minute Broadband : Less than 1 Minute
Weedon Hill MDA Design Code 4 and 5	Design Code for the development at Weedon Hill, the Street and the Lane Standard Type	201KB 56Kbps Modem: Less than 1 Minute Broadband : Less than 1 Minute
Weedon Hill MDA - Design Code 6 and 7	Design Code for the development at Weedon Hill - the Greenway Standard Type	243KB 56Kbps Modem: Less than 1 Minute Broadband : Less than 1 Minute
Weedon Hill MDA - Design Code 8	Design Code for the development at Weedon Hill - on street parking standard type, illustration for main street	99KB 56Kbps Modem: Less than 1 Minute Broadband : Less than 1 Minute
Weedon Hill MDA - Design Code 9	Design Code for the development at Weedon Hill - through route courtyard parking	100KB 56Kbps Modem: Less than 1 Minute Broadband : Less than 1 Minute
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Weedon Hill MDA - Design Code 19	Design Code for the development at Weedon Hill	107KB 56Kbps Modem: Less than 1 Minute Broadband : Less than 1 Minute
Weedon Hill MDA - Design Code 20	Design Code for the development at Weedon Hill - Typical Development Layout - Indicative Entrance Zone	310KB 56Kbps Modem: Less than 1 Minute Broadband : Less than 1 Minute
Weedon Hill MDA, Design Code 21	Design Code for the development at Weedon Hill, Typical Development Layout, Market Square Zone	285KB 56Kbps Modem: Less than 1 Minute Broadband : Less than 1 Minute

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