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• Landscape led

  Policy

  Residential layouts must be landscape led and designed around open spaces. Existing landscape features, planting and key views into and out of the site must be retained and incorporated into the residential layout, street pattern and open spaces.

  • Dataset: Design code rule
  • Reference: trafford-design-code-RSRL-1

• Context and identity

  Policy

  Applicants must demonstrate, based upon an understanding of the local context, that the development has a positive and coherent identity and can be positively integrated into its surroundings,reflecting and reinforcing the character of the area.

  • Dataset: Design code rule
  • Reference: trafford-design-code-RSRL-2

• Sustainable urban drainage solutions

  Policy

  Residential projects must include Sustainable Drainage solutions. SuDS must be one of the first considerations in setting out a residential layout and incorporated at the earliest opportunity when designing layouts, street networks and provision of open space.

  • Dataset: Design code rule
  • Reference: trafford-design-code-RSRL-3

• Active travel and street hierarchy

  Policy

  Residential layouts must deliver a hierarchy of different streets that maximise active travel and provide an attractive public realm where communities can meet and children play.

  • Dataset: Design code rule
  • Reference: trafford-design-code-RSRL-4

• Urban greening factor(UGF)

  Policy

  Allresidential projects must have a UGF score of over 0.4. A UGF of 0.5 must be delivered on greenfield development sites.

  • Dataset: Design code rule
  • Reference: trafford-design-code-RSRL-5

• Development block layout

  Policy

  Applicants must demonstrate that the design of residential development blocks has resulted from an analysis and compliance with the sub-chapter‘Landscape led residential layouts’

  • Dataset: Design code rule
  • Reference: trafford-design-code-RSRL-6

• Vehicle parking

  Policy

  Applicant’s must provide a parking strategy that does not result in vehicles dominating the streetscene.

  • Dataset: Design code rule
  • Reference: trafford-design-code-RSRL-7

• Coherent rhythm and structure of streets

  Policy

  Residential developments must use housing typology, building design, height,roof types, facade composition, materials, orientation and placement to create an identifiable coherent structure to streets. The chosen method for creating structure must be influenced by design cues from the surrounding area.

  • Dataset: Design code rule
  • Reference: trafford-design-code-RSVS-1

• Variation

  Policy

  Applicants must demonstrate that the layout delivers an appropriate level of variation in terms of building type, orientation, scale, materials and the composition of elevations having regard to the local context.

  • Dataset: Design code rule
  • Reference: trafford-design-code-RSVS-2

• Define and enclose spaces with buildings

  Policy

  Buildings must be positioned and sized to define areas of open space and edges to create a human scale of enclosure.

  • Dataset: Design code rule
  • Reference: trafford-design-code-RSVS-3

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