- Development Plan
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- Contact Details
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- LDF Team,
Bexley Council,
Wyncham House,
207 Longlands Road,
Sidcup,
Kent DA15 7JH
- LDFTeam@ bexley.gov.uk
- 020 8308 7869
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Sustainable Design and Construction Guide
(Draft for Consultation)
This consultation has now closed and these pages are provided for information
only.
 We all want to improve the quality of life in Bexley. The Council wants to work in cooperation with the developers of new buildings to achieve the highest possible standards of sustainable design and construction. This means creating developments that minimise their environmental impact, are more cost-effective to run, more secure, and provide healthy living conditions, at the same time as respecting Bexley’s rich heritage, its natural and built environment and its distinctiveness.
The Council has prepared Draft Guidance on Sustainable Design and Construction to highlight the important contribution people involved in designing and constructing new developments can make to improving the quality of life in Bexley. We are seeking comments on the draft Guidance to help us improve the quality of the final version.
The draft Guidance, together with a Sustainability Appraisal Report and other associated documents, is available here:
Paper copies of the draft Sustainable Design & Construction Guide and
Sustainability Appraisal Report are available on request: phone
020 8308 7869. The Appendices to the Sustainability Appraisal Report are only
available on CD, upon request.
Copies of the full report are also available to view at:
- The Contact Centre at the Civic Offices, Broadway, Bexleyheath, Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 5.00pm
- Wyncham House, 207 Longlands Road, Sidcup, Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 5.00pm
- Bexley's Libraries. Please check opening hours here.
The Council will expect everyone to follow the guidelines set out in this document when undertaking new development in Bexley. Careful consideration of design and specification at an early stage can provide significant savings compared with an ad hoc approach, and people proposing development should ensure that they are familiar with the Council’s expectations for sustainable design and construction prior to commencing the design work.
This consultation has now closed and these pages
are provided for information only.
Comments on the Draft Sustainable Design and Construction Guide and Sustainability Appraisal Report must be made by 14 May 2007. You can have your say:
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 Online (select the Sustainable Design & Construction Guide SPD)
(Please note, this is an external website and is not maintained by the webteam. Please contact Planning if there are any technical issues.)
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e-mail to
ben.thomas@bexley.gov.uk;
- By writing Ben Thomas at Strategic Planning and Development, Bexley Council, Wyncham House, 207 Longlands Road, Sidcup, Kent, DA15 7JH;
- By fax to 020 8308 7887.
Responses will be open to public inspection and may be quoted in reports prepared for Councillors. Responses may include a request to be notified when the Council has adopted the final version of the Planning Brief.
This document is aimed at developers and those seeking planning permission. A householders’ guide has also been produced which gives general sustainability advice.  Householders' Guide to Sustainable Design and Construction (2.90MB, PDF file)
The Sustainable Design and Construction Guide is a Supplementary Planning Document within Bexley’s Local Development Framework. It has been prepared to supplement the policies and proposals of the adopted Bexley Unitary Development Plan and the Mayor of London’s spatial strategy, The London Plan, which together form the development plan for the area. It will be a material consideration when the Council considers planning applications. The document has been prepared in line with the legislative requirements of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 and associated regulations and guidance.
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