Design and Access Statements
(DAS)
Central Government is looking for improvements to the quality of
planning applications submitted and more importantly the quality of
decisions made and the resultant development.
In its guidance, Planning Policy Statement 1 states:
"Good design ensures attractive, usable, durable and
adaptable places and is a key element in achieving sustainable
development. Good design is indivisible from good planning.
Planning authorities should plan positively for the achievement of
high quality and inclusive design for all development, including
individual buildings, public and private spaces and wider area
development schemes. Good design should contribute positively to
making places better for people. Design which is inappropriate in
its context, or which fails to take the opportunities available for
improving the character and quality of an area and the way it
functions, should not be accepted."
A DAS is a report accompanying and supporting a planning
application to illustrate the process that has led to the
development proposal, and to explain and justify the proposal in a
structured way.
Important changes to the requirements for a DAS took place on
6th April 2010.
This
GUIDANCE NOTE explains the changes.
A DAS is not required for the approval of reserved matters,
applications relating to advertisement control, works to preserved
trees or storage of hazardous substances.
IF A DAS IS REQUIRED AND NOT SUBMITTED OR IS
INCOMPLETE WE WILL RETURN YOUR APPLICATION
USEFUL DOCUMENTS AND GUIDANCE:
Essex
design initiative - Essex Design Guide and Urban Space
Supplement
The above links will open an adobe acrobat pdf document and you
will need the
free adobe acrobat reader software to open it.
Design and Access Statement guidance from CABE (Commission for
Architecture and the Built
Environment)
Powerpoint presentation by Urban design London and CABE giving
guidance for Design and Access Statements
Professional Guidance:
Statutory
Instrument 2006. 1062
Statutory
Instrument 2006. 1063 |