Layout and Design. An understanding of typography, and the use of different fonts, weights of subheads, colour, leading, tracking and other production skills in creating a publication of the highest professional standards.
Layout and Design. If the site had been considered as a justified exception to Policy PMD4, then as the application is submitted in full, the layout and design of the houses must also be considered against LDP Policy PMD2 and the “Placemaking and Design” SPG in particular. They require any development to both have a sense of place but also to be appropriate and compatible to its surroundings, respecting form and the highest quality of surrounding materials and architecture. The Design and Access and Planning Statements contend that the layout and design respond to the levels, landscape and the site context. They state that the context is varied and modern and that the linear single-sided nature of the development, cut into the hillside, integrates and aligns behind the linear pattern of development along the Edinburgh Road. The varied materials of zinc, timber and reconstituted stone, especially to the front west facing gables, are argued to integrate with the area and reduce impacts to public view. The contemporary design is considered appropriate to the modern architecture and mixed surroundings by the agent, responding to the rising site topography by being split level and with stepped terraced gardens to the rear. The design and layout approach is not considered appropriate in this setting. The landscape impacts of the height and linear design have already been discussed in the previous section. The site is a steeply rising parkland field within a designated landscape, heavily visible to much of Peebles, especially to the west and south-west. Had the field been considered acceptable for development as a justified exception under Policy PMD4, then a dense tall “townhouse” row of identical designs with minimal gaps between each unit would not be considered appropriate on a rural edge location, adjoining mixed post-war housing of predominantly single and storey-and-a-half slate roof houses. The transition with the parkland and countryside edge to the town should not be defined so abruptly with such dominant and tall designs, the height, minimal spaces between houses and xxxxx end designs all providing an unnecessarily hard, jagged and inappropriate transition between town and country. Their relationship with the houses adjoining is similarly incongruous, both in form, uniformity and dominant use of zinc. Their height, xxxxx end alignment and detached nature with minimal spacing are much more appropriate in a more urban or xxxxxxxxxx setting further towards the town. Their a...
Layout and Design
