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Summary

This guide aims to promote deeper thought and greater flair from those entrusted with creating better Places to Live. Following on from By Design: Urban design in the planning system - towards better practice, it draws together the principles of good urban design as they relate to the residential environment to help move the practice of good design forward. Better Places to Live By Design focuses on the attributes that underlie successful residential environments in order to provide guidance on implementing the new approach to planning for housing set out in Planning Policy Guidance 3: Housing (PPG3).

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• Better Places To Live by Design: A Companion Guide to PPG3: foreword
  PDF, 8 kb , 1 pages
• Chapter 1: The need for better housing design
  PDF, 305 kb , 6 pages
• Chapter 2: Understanding the context
  PDF, 395 kb , 6 pages
• Chapter 3 (1): Creating a movement framework
  PDF, 397 kb , 5 pages
• Chapter 3 (2): Managing the traffic
  PDF, 330 kb , 3 pages
• Chapter 4: Housing mix and neighbourhood
  PDF, 494 kb , 4 pages
• Chapter 5 (1): Housing layout and urban form
  PDF, 366 kb , 5 pages
• Chapter 5 (2): Block Dimensions
  PDF, 520 kb , 5 pages
• Chapter 5 (3): Setbacks
  PDF, 309 kb , 5 pages
• Chapter 5 (4): Accommodating parking
  PDF, 353 kb , 5 pages
• Chapter 6: Space in and around the home
  PDF, 464 kb , 9 pages
• Chapter 7: Thoroughness in design
  PDF, 354 kb , 8 pages
• Case study: Thorley Lane, Bishops Stortford
  PDF, 246 kb , 2 pages
• Case study: Stansted Road, Lewisham, London
  PDF, 363 kb , 2 pages
• Case study: Poundbury, Dorchester
  PDF, 192 kb , 2 pages
• Case study: Canning Street, Liverpool
  PDF, 118 kb , 2 pages
• Case study: Highsett, Cambridge
  PDF, 228 kb , 2 pages
• Case study: Jesmond, Newcastle
  PDF, 198 kb , 2 pages
• Case study: Friar Quay, Norwich
  PDF, 210 kb , 2 pages
• Case study: Rolls Crescent, Hulme, Manchester
  PDF, 244 kb , 2 pages
• Case study: Greenland Passage, Southwark, London
  PDF, 347 kb , 2 pages
• Case study: Isledon Village, Islington, London
  PDF, 233 kb , 2 pages
• Case study: Deansgate Quay, Manchester
  PDF, 185 kb , 2 pages
• Case study: Webster's Yard, Kendal
  PDF, 226 kb , 2 pages
• Better Places To Live by Design: A Companion Guide to PPG3: further reading
  PDF, 19 kb , 2 pages
• Better Places To Live by Design: A Companion Guide to PPG3: acknowledgements
  PDF, 6 kb , 1 pages

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• By Design: Urban Design in the Planning System - Towards Better Practice

  • Published: 15 May 2000
  • Site: Planning, building and the environment