Planning and Design Guidance

The council has produced a number of planning and design guides and leaflets on a range of topics to help applicants, agents, designers, developers and council officers prepare and evaluate development proposals.

• Action Plans for the Central Area of Basingstoke and the area to the North of Basingstoke
• Adopted Development Briefs for sites identified in the Local Plan and in addition, Upper New Road in Basingstoke
• Biodiversity Checklist
• Design and Access Statements
• Design Guidance, as set out in the Adopted Supplementary Planning Document on Design and Sustainability (which covers issues like Extending Your Home, Places to Live, Residential Annexes, the Storage and Collection of Waste and Recycling)
• Planning Development Leaflets gives advice to applicants and objectors about matters relating to the determining of planning applications
• Historic Environment Guidance provides the council's policy position on Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Buildings of Local Interest
• Historic Environment Leaflets provides advice on the legal position on Listed Buildings, planning controls in Conservation Areas and Article 4(2) Directions
• Marketing Guidance Note provides advice for applicants seeking to justify the loss of an employment use
• Noise assessments and reports for planning applications
• Parking Standards for residential and non-residential developments
• Planning Policy Guidance including S106 Planning Obligations and Community Infrastructure and Best Practice Note on Affordable Housing and Community Infrastructure and Transport Contributions
• Smoking Shelters
• Village Design Statements