Design Statements for Development Proposals

"Design and access statements are becoming the most important interface between local authorities and planning applicants. The quality of the statements and local authorities' skill in using them will help to determine the quality of design. This makes it vital to raise standards of practice." "This guide encourages good practice and innovation rather than prescribing a standardised tick-box approach. Design and access statements must be specific to the site and must not merely collate together bland, generic commentary or regurgitate existing published guidance. Design and access statements explained shows how councils themselves should tailor their own local guidance on the use of statements to the particular place and their own policies; and planning applicants should root their proposals - and their explanations of them - in a full understanding of the local context." "Design and access statements explained is intended for people who are submitting design and access statements, receiving or negotiating on them, and being consulted on or providing local guidance on them. This Includes developers and their agents, planners, urban designers, councillors, access groups and members of local communities. The guide explains what design and access statements are for. how to go about preparing them and how to use them."--BOOK JACKET.