Replacement Calderdale UDP : Adopted 25 August 2006 (as amended August 2009)

Replacement Calderdale UDP : Adopted 25 August 2006

• Foreword
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Calderdale in Context
• Strategic and Core Part One Policies
• 3 Guiding Principles and Key Themes
• 4 Employment, The Economy, Tourism and Regeneration
• 5 Housing
• 6 Retailing and Town Centres
• 7 Open Space, Sport and Recreation Facilities
• 8 The Built and Historic Environment
  • The Contribution of Design to the Quality of the Built Environment
  • Piecemeal Development
  • General Design Criteria
  • Privacy, Daylighting and Amenity Space in New Development
  • Landscaping of New Development
  • Safety and Security Considerations within New Developments
  • Design and Layout of Highways and Accesses in New Development
  • Provision of Safe Pedestrian Environments in New Development
  • CCTV and Area Lighting Schemes
  • Access and the Provision of Public Conveniences and Baby Changing Facilities in New Development
  • Art in Public Places
  • Telecommunications Development
  • Advertisements
  • The Historic Built Environment
• 9 Transport
• 10 Infrastructure, Education and Community Facilities
• 11 Natural Environment and the Countryside
• 12 Environmental Protection
• 13 Minerals
• 14 Waste Management
• 15 Monitoring and Review of the Plan
• Annex A Privacy, Daylighting and Amenity Space
• Annex B Trees On or Adjacent to Development Sites
• Appendix 1 National Planning Policy
• Appendix 2 National Minerals Policy
• Appendix 3 Supporting Published Documents
• Appendix 4 Glossary of Terms
• Appendix 5 Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Appendix 6 Policy Topic Index
• Appendix 7 Policy Number Comparison
• Appendix 8 Supplementary Maps

Privacy, Daylighting and Amenity Space in New Development

8.8 Policy BE 1 ‘General Design Criteria’ stresses the importance of ensuring appropriate design principles, layout and use of materials in development. An additional element, which is of critical importance in achieving good standards of design, particularly in residential areas, is ensuring that adequate space about buildings is achieved, whilst recognising the need to make the fullest use of housing land. The purposes of securing adequate space around buildings are:-

1. to secure a reasonable degree of privacy in dwellings and prevent overlooking between both new and existing dwellings;
2. to ensure dwellings enjoy a reasonable level of light and are not unreasonably overshadowed;
3. to ensure that development is not overbearing on the outlook from dwellings;
4. to allow amenity spaces around dwellings for landscaping, gardens, play, sitting out, car parking etc - i.e. an 'outdoor room' which can be used in reasonable privacy; and
5. to ensure that new development does not unfairly place restraints upon adjoining land or property in terms of the latter's development potential where allocated for (or suitable for) development.

8.9 Conditions may be imposed on planning permission restricting future extensions and alterations that could otherwise be carried out without the need to apply for planning permission under the provisions of the General Permitted Development Order (1995) (as amended). Such restrictions would be imposed where future alteration of the permitted design, for example, by erecting a small extension or forming a new window opening, would be to the detriment of privacy or amenity. Additional guidance to assist in evaluating the acceptability of development proposals and the application of Policy BE 2 ‘Privacy, Daylighting and Amenity Space’ is included as Annex A ‘Privacy, Daylighting and Amenity Space’. New buildings, and in particular dwellings, as well as extensions will be assessed against Policy BE 2 ‘Privacy, Daylighting and Amenity Space’ below:-

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