Yes

ID sylw: 102673

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mrs Penelope Beswick

Although Design Codes should not be too prescriptive generally as this can stultify innovative design they should definitely be applied to specific/strategic sites.

Other

ID sylw: 102871

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Turley

Clarification requested that a design code is not proposed to be set for the University of Warwick campus.

Other

ID sylw: 103061

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Andrew Close

Studies have shown good design is critical to the acceptance of new development and yields better outcomes for everyone. So to support residents and developers I would suggest you merge most if not all policies in this chapter into ‘one hook’ for future SPD/supplementary plans/design codes. This will ensure the Councils can be future-proofed for the NDMPs that the government will adopt, but also reduces burdens on applicants and allow council officers to protect key characteristics of local areas and not get diverted with checklists. Tackle the unnecessary amount of paperwork and pdfs!

Yes

ID sylw: 103072

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Bloor Homes

Asiant : Marrons

Draft Policy Direction 26 aligns with the NPPF, which encourages the use of design codes to provide clarity about design expectations. The policy’s commitment to a wide range of design codes, including area-wide, site-specific and densification design codes is strongly supported as it will help to deliver context-sensitive and locally appropriate design solutions.

While the policy correctly references the National Design Guide, it should also directly reference the National Model Design Code, which provides a framework for preparing local design codes. Including both will ensure the policy fully aligns with NPPF Paragraph 133 and national best practice.

Other

ID sylw: 103236

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Elizabeth Simpson Yates

I support Option D2b: Develop design guides and/or design codes for specific places (e.g. existing settlements or groups of settlements, or an 'area' in the case of a new settlement) where the spatial strategy identifies significant change.

Other

ID sylw: 103241

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Elizabeth Simpson Yates

I support Option D2b: Develop design guides and/or design codes for specific places (e.g. existing settlements or groups of settlements, or an 'area' in the case of a new settlement) where the spatial strategy identifies significant change.

Other

ID sylw: 103514

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Richborough - Salford Road, Bidford-on-Avon

Asiant : Turley

It is recommended that the SWLP team should lead on the production of the settlement specific design codes (with inputs from Neighbourhood Planning Groups) and these should come forward at the same time as the SWLP with the focus on enabling housing delivery as soon as possible.

Other

ID sylw: 103515

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Richborough - Gaydon Road, Bishop's Itchington

Asiant : Turley

It is recommended that the SWLP team should lead on the production of the settlement specific design codes (with inputs from Neighbourhood Planning Groups) and these should come forward at the same time as the SWLP with the focus on enabling housing delivery as soon as possible.

Other

ID sylw: 103517

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Richborough - Lighthorne Road, Kineton

Asiant : Turley

It is recommended that the SWLP team should lead on the production of the settlement specific design codes (with inputs from Neighbourhood Planning Groups) and these should come forward at the same time as the SWLP with the focus on enabling housing delivery as soon as possible

Other

ID sylw: 103522

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Richborough - Sycamore Close, Stockton

Asiant : Turley

It is recommended that the SWLP team should lead on the production of the settlement specific design codes (with inputs from Neighbourhood Planning Groups) and these should come forward at the same time as the SWLP with the focus on enabling housing delivery as soon as possible.

Other

ID sylw: 103525

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Richborough - Kineton Road, Wellesbourne

Asiant : Turley

It is recommended that the SWLP team should lead on the production of the settlement specific design codes (with inputs from Neighbourhood Planning Groups) and these should come forward at the same time as the SWLP with the focus on enabling housing delivery as soon as possible.

Other

ID sylw: 103530

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Richborough - Wellesbourne Road, Wellesbourne

Asiant : Turley

It is recommended that the SWLP team should lead on the production of the settlement specific design codes (with inputs from Neighbourhood Planning Groups) and these should come forward at the same time as the SWLP with the focus on enabling housing delivery as soon as possible.

Other

ID sylw: 103533

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Richborough - Plough Lane, Bishop's Itchington

Asiant : Turley

It is recommended that the SWLP team should lead on the production of the settlement specific design codes (with inputs from Neighbourhood Planning Groups) and these should come forward at the same time as the SWLP with the focus on enabling housing delivery as soon as possible.

Yes

ID sylw: 104156

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mr Stephen Norrie

Yes, the policy seems reasonable.

Other

ID sylw: 104247

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Elizabeth White

Understanding and delivery of ‘A Well-Designed Place’ essential.

W/22/0232, W/23/1746, W/23/1766…

Yes

ID sylw: 104504

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mr Neal Appleton

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No

ID sylw: 104516

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mr Paul Watson

Buildings should not be copies of something from past centuries. All the recent development locally is foul, as is nearly all contemporary British domestic architecture. It appears the government is putting architects in a staitjacket resulting in buildings that look like Coronation Street or Winson Green Prison, and for all your fine words this lot will be more of the same.

Yes

ID sylw: 104732

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mrs L Beeson

Agree with the justification:

‘Design coding at a district and neighbourhood level is becoming a more integral, and required, element of the planning system.’

Yes

ID sylw: 104755

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Miss Ann Colley

agree

No

ID sylw: 104876

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mrs Alice Burton

I don’t think having design codes takes away from the fact that some places shouldn’t be built on.

Other

ID sylw: 105012

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Stratford-on-Avon Town Council

Design Codes should apply not only to design of houses but also to streets in town centres, for example shop fronts, facades and street furniture.

No

ID sylw: 105778

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Wates Developments Ltd

Asiant : Savills

Wates Developments objects to Draft Policy Direction 25, noting that design codes can often be relatively strict and prescriptive in comparison to a “Design Framework”, masterplan or “Design Guide”. We would encourage the Councils to avoid any design coding which is overly prescriptive in nature, as this could add significant delay to the delivery of development. We consider that greater flexibility should be provided to ensure that the preparation of additional policy material, particularly where it relates to large mixed-use sites, does not lead to protracted timescales for delivering much needed housing and employment in the SWLP area.

No

ID sylw: 106203

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Acres Land & Planning

The prospect of the SWLP requiring a whole suite of different design codes signals a ‘nightmare scenario’ whereby the Local Plan and associated design codes take decades to produce and development proposals are never implemented through the intended plan-led process. The Councils need to look very carefully at the web of bureaucracy they have created in producing this Plan. The South Warwickshire Local Plan itself will take 8 years to adopt, Design Codes and Supplementary guidance may take a further 2-3 years. Planning applications are currently taking many years to approve. Two recent self-build applications took 4 years to achieve outline consents. No wonder Government and business alike are complaining that planning needs to be reformed.

Yes

ID sylw: 106213

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Cala Homes (Cotswolds)

Asiant : Lichfields (London)

Cala supports the general approach to set principles for new development in an area. Cala recognises the provision for a series of design codes to cover a range of geographical areas with varying levels of detail. Cala considers the proposals to introduce design codes of varying detail e.g. more detail for smaller sites and more general design guidelines for larger, strategic sites appears to be a sensible approach.

It is important the design codes factor in a degree of flexibility for large sites, to ensure there is the ability to encourage innovative and high-quality designs, which can respond to different character areas. This is an approach that is being followed at Cala’s Long Marston Airfield Garden Village (LMAGV), where a specific LMAGV adopted Masterplan SPD has set a series of guiding design principles that are being developed in further detail as detailed planning applications come forward across the settlement.

Yes

ID sylw: 106513

Derbyniwyd: 06/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Wychbury Developments

Asiant : Cerda Planning Ltd

We broadly support the application of Design Codes, in varying degrees of detail, consistent with the
nature of the code itself - be it area wide or site specific.
Design Codes should however be prepared in consultation with promoters as key stakeholders, to ensure
the code is proportionate and appropriate. Codes should support promoters objectives, where one site
might be being delivered with a focus on GI and lower density development whereas another site might be
being delivered at a higher density and seeking to support an off site cultural asset.
A skeletal Design Code could form part of a Statement of Common ground prepared between the Councils
and site promoters, applying the approach we have set out in responding to Policy Direction 5.
In all cases Design Codes should have regard to NDMP’s introduced through the Levelling Up and
Regeneration Act 2023

Yes

ID sylw: 106658

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Warwickshire Property and Development Group

Asiant : Framptons

In principle, we are supportive of the proposed use of design codes, this being consistent with Paragraph 133 of the NPPF.
Once a Design Code is in place it is accepted that planning applications should be prepared to be inconformity with its guidance. It should not, however, be necessary for developers to wait for Design Codes to be put in place before submitting planning applications or prior to their determination; this approach could cause significant delays to the delivery of housing. This is an important consideration given the fact that there remains a degree of uncertainty as to when the proposed series of design codes will be available, and that site-specific design codes will not likely be adopted until after adoption of the SWLP.
Within this context, and on the assumption that Land off Bush Heath Road, Harbury, will be allocated for development, it is currently WPDG’s intention to develop a site-specific design code following the adoption of the South Warwickshire Local Plan. In preparation of the design code WPDG engage with the local community and other stakeholders through public consultation events to help influence design proposal for the site which takes into account the guidance contained in the National Design Guide and the National Model Design Code.

Yes

ID sylw: 106899

Derbyniwyd: 06/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Historic England

Historic England supports the use of Design Codes and Design Guides to inform development and ensure that it is responsive to its setting. Information on good practice for design and on Historic England’s role in encouraging and facilitating new development which is based on an understanding of each site’s unique history,
character and context, can be found at:

https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/planning/design-in-the-historic-environment/

Other

ID sylw: 106975

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Bellway Homes

Asiant : Savills

Table 8 states that the production of site-specific design codes will be led by the SWLP team. The production of site-specific design codes should be done with collaboration between SWLP and sites’ landowners / developers / promoters to ensure effective engagement and the site’s deliverability.

Other

ID sylw: 107025

Derbyniwyd: 06/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Ministry of Defence

DTC RESPONSE:

Section 8.2, Policy Direction 26 – Design codes
The MOD recognises the need for quality design within the planning system. However, there may be
occasions where specific operational or technical requirements of buildings and structures required for
defence purposes can restrict MOD’s ability to amend the design of developments to meet local design
criteria. It is important therefore that local design codes are not too restrictive and that they recognise the need
for flexibility in such cases.

Yes

ID sylw: 107080

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Cotswolds National Landscape Board

Yes, the Cotswolds National Landscape (CNL) Board agrees with the approach laid out in Draft Policy Direction 26.
In particular, the Board would support the principle of producing design codes that relate specifically to settlements within - and, where appropriate, directly adjacent to - the CNL.