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Design Guides

Shop Front Design Guide

This is a PDF Document Icon Shop Front Design Guide (1,238 Kb)

For enquiries relating to the Shop Front Guide, please contact the Forward Planning team

Design and Access Statements

Many planning applications now require Design and Access Statements. They are documents that explain the design thinking behind a planning application and should cover both design and access allowing applicants to demonstrate an integrated approach that will deliver inclusive design, and address a full range of access requirements through the planning process.

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Better Places to Live in South Yorkshire

Developers, volume house-builders, architects and agents are encouraged to adopt the design principles and action checklists set out in this guide in the course of working up their proposals to the planning application stage.

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Better Places to Work in South Yorkshire

This guide has been produced by the Objective 1 Programme Directorate and Yorkshire Forward (the regional development agency) in partnership with the area's four local authorities and CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) and Travel South Yorkshire. The guide encourages a high standard of urban design and architecture in new development that will deliver a step-change in both the quality of South Yorkshire's built environment and its economy.

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Technical Appendix

This technical guide assists designers in the detailed design of the layout and provision of highway and transportation facilities for residential and commercial developments.

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Specification

This General Specification is issued for the guidance of developers, and forms the basis for alternative methods of construction for Housing Estate Roads and Industrial Estate Roads which the Highway Authority is ultimately required to adopt as highway to be maintained at public expense.

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Contact Details

If you don't wish to download the above large documents, please ask us to send them to you as pdf files on a CD. For these requests and other enquiries, please contact the Transportation Unit

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