Design Guides
Shop front design guide
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.
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.
Better Places to Live in South Yorkshire
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.
Better Places to Work in South Yorkshire
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.
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.