What are the Guiding Principles for Ashton Green?
Development will be sensitive to the environment
- Low to zero carbon homes over time
- Homes that are energy efficient and use renewable energy
- Protecting and enhancing existing open space and wildlife habitats
- Planning to reduce car dependency - a place for people, not cars
Place of character and distinctive identity
- High quality and well designed buildings and spaces that ‘lift the spirits’
- Create a place of distinctive character that reflects its context and unique setting
- Thriving village centre
- Walkable neighbourhoods
A community that is well connected
- Designed around the needs of pedestrians and cyclists with safe local routes
- Good public transport links early in the development
- Offer alternatives to car travel
- Integrated with the surrounding local communities
Well served place offering a high quality of life
- Well served place with a new village centre
- Meeting local housing needs including affordable housing
- Local public services; all aged school and community facilities early in the development
- Mix of family homes
- Range of employment opportunities
View the comments of CABE (the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) on the Ashton Green masterplan
CABE Design Review August 2010