Garden Village Design Guide

It is designed to provide inspiration for the planning design and long term management of new places and to help local authorities and private sector delivery partners to understand what makes a successful garden.

Garden village design guide. An introductory guide. The design principles of garden communities place a firm focus on creating self contained communities surrounded by green infrastructure and comprising residential commercial and agricultural zones. It helps communities and planners shape the character of new development in your area in response to community priorities.

Self sustainability is put into practice through active healthy lifestyles embodied in walking and cycling locally grown produce and locally. It is a way to provide more locally specific detail which augments and. A village design guide describes the distinctive character of the village and sets out guidelines for how this should be enhanced by new developments.

A case study on the sustainable transport elements of dissington is included on our garden village guide to active travel. To help inform the design and delivery of new garden villages today. To summarise here this is in our view the first uk planning application to commit to.