STREETSCAPE - Design Guidance

• New development, including cumulative changes, should consider their impact upon views within the village and avoid causing harm through poorly designed new development or through the removal of distinctive features.

• Respect established views and vistas and protect them.

• Respect existing building lines and do not encroach beyond them.

• Resist the installation of new road markings or further directional signage.

• Consider taming traffic naturally through consideration of the removal of white lining or other means to naturally slow traffic.1

• Maintain the existing quality and restrained template of street furniture, seats, bins and signs.

• Maintain highway verges and grass triangle at Garth Ends Road as important contributors to the village’s rural character.

• Avoid double yellow lines where possible. Where unavoidable, use primrose yellow and extra thin lines as allowable in historic areas.

• Consider reducing the speed limit through the centre of the village to 20mph.

• Manage healthy landscapes through sound management of woodland and the maintenance of trees, landscapes and gardens.

• Avoid paving over gardens.

• Plant 3 to 1 for any tree needing to be removed.

1. See the Route National roads in France where distorted patterns, planting and changes in colour naturally tame traffic along high capacity routes in various places.