New Design Guide to Set Benchmark for Housing Quality

Property developers are now required to follow a new design guide which aims to maintain a high standard for future housing schemes across Cheshire East. 

The Cheshire East Residential Design Guide has been formally adopted across the borough, and is intended to ensure that all new developments achieve a high level of design and reflect local distinctiveness. 

Frank Jordan, executive director for place, said: 

"This design guide will help to set a benchmark for quality and a 'sense of place.' 

"While we want to see more imaginative developments that are pleasing to the eye, we would like to see designs that reflect the characteristics of the town, village and community in which they are situated. 

"Where development is not of the requisite quality, then the design guide, in support of Local Plan policy, provides justification to refuse permission as part of the planning balance. 

"Now adopted, it will form a material consideration when determining planning applications for new housing development." 

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

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