Cheshire East new housing design guide

Developers and their designers are now required to follow a new design guide to maintain a high standard for future housing schemes and developments across Cheshire East.

The Cheshire East Residential Design Guide has been formally adopted and launched to benchmark housing quality across the borough.

The guide is intended to ensure that all new developments achieve a high quality of design, reflecting local distinctiveness and characteristics, including the type of materials, natural features, surroundings and other connections with the locality.

The guide is a key Supplementary Planning Document, supporting the current and emerging Local Plans, and all new developments will be required to meet acceptable design standards to create high-quality, well-designed places.

The recommendations within the guide are tailored to be applied to future developments across the whole of the borough, in urban as well as rural communities.

The final document incorporates refinements arising from an eight-week consultation in 2016, involving 12,000 people, including developers, parish and town councils, designers and amenity groups.

The guide not only addresses the appearance of new housing, but also sets out a framework for an entire development, including landscaping, paving materials, public realm and open space.

It also makes recommendations on waste and recycling provision, thermal insulation and performance, and other aspects of sustainability that contribute to a quality of life.

The guide is aimed at a range of users, including the council, communities, developers and their design teams.

The guide has been published in two sections, which can be loaded as PDF files using the links below the picture.

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