Design
Good urban design is an essential component in creating a successful city.
Good design is crucial to creating places and spaces that thrive with activity and are valued by the community. The implementation of good quality design standards will improve the day-to-day experience of those who live, work, play, and travel in and around Salford. Spaces and places should be accessible and useable for all; design affects how we interact with our environments. Design contributes to how a local park is used to meet the needs of a diverse population and a range of ages, to ensuring that people feel they can move around the city’s streets safely; good design is integral to making the city a success.
Over recent years the government has placed increased emphasis on design and quality in urban regeneration and development; Salford City Council seeks to achieve high standards of design across the city and has been active in producing a number of documents which set out principles and aspirations for all future development. These documents cover a wide range of areas, whether it is citywide policy or area specific policy.
These documents are integral to raising design standards within the city; the results of many of these documents are now increasingly visible on the ground.
Supplementary Planning Document: Design Shaping Salford
Adopted March 2008, this document is applicable city-wide and seeks to raise the standards of design and quality. Whilst providing overarching principles for the city, the document also presents guidance applicable to identified local character areas within the Regional Centre, Central Salford, and Salford West.
Supplementary Planning Document: Sustainable Design and Construction
Adopted March 2008 to provide additional guidance on the integration of sustainable design and construction measures in new and existing developments.
Supplementary Planning Document: Design and Crime
Adopted July 2006, the document aims to help assess and determine planning applications and is intended to guide architects, developers, landscape architects and urban designers in designing out crime.
Supplementary Planning Document: Lower Broughton Design Code
This document, as adopted January 2006, sets out the design principles that are used to govern development as part of the regeneration of the Lower Broughton area of the city.
There are also numerous area specific planning guidance documents. These include Salford Central, Ordsall Riverside, The Exchange Greengate, MediaCityUK and Quayspoint, and Irwell City Park.
The following external websites may also be of interest:
This page was last updated on 8 February 2011
