This Guidance has now been superseded.
The St George’s North and South Area Strategy Guidance was adopted by the City Council on 27 June 2005.
To enable comprehensive approach to the whole of St George’s, this Area Strategy Guidance is for the LRC intervention area New Community and the LCC Cultural Quarter.
The purpose of the guidance is to:
- Illustrate clear planning and urban design guidance for St George’s North and South. It provides a 'vision' for the area.
- Promote a mix of land use at an appropriate density to ensure vitality and sense of place.
- Identify opportunities for future development including residential, retail, leisure and employment uses.
- Identify potential environmental improvements and the creation of new public spaces.
- Identify potential for and means of securing improved pedestrian access through the St George’s areas and re-unite them with the St Matthew’s housing area, city centre retail core, and the new business quarter (Office Core).
- Create an attractive and enhanced setting for buildings of architectural and historic importance and conservation area elements.
The guidance is a vehicle for facilitating and promoting the regeneration of the area as an attractive place to live, and visit. This document considers the strategic planning context and urban design requirements for St George’s area as a whole. The guidance includes:
This guidance has been adopted as a Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) to the City of Leicester Local Plan. SPG may be taken into account as a material consideration in deciding planning applications. Developers should be able to demonstrate how they have responded to the guidance in their own ideas, initially in pre-application discussions with the authority.
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