Residential Design Guide

In 2000 we worked with Staffordshire borough and district councils to publish a residential design guide.

What is the guide for?

The purpose of this guide is to bring together everything that helps towards a clear housing layout design. This is so that residential developments are sustainable and unified.

The guide is flexible enough to allow roads to be designed in inventive ways, as long as it works with the form, proportion and layout of new development.

Where can I view the guide?

The guide is available to download as a single document, or in smaller parts.

• All parts - Residential design guide (9 MB)
  
  
• Part 1 - Introduction and approach (1.1 MB)
  
  
• Part 2 - Design process (717 KB)
  
  
• Part 3 - Sustainable design (205 KB)
  
  
• Part 4 - Design character (512 KB)
  
  
• Part 5 - Design and detail (102 KB)
  
  
• Part 6 - Access layout (819 KB)

Appendices

The guide is supported by a series of technical appendices, as follows:

• Appendix A (510 KB) - Design Layout and Technical criteria
  
  
• Appendix C (2.5 MB) - Adoption Procedures & Requirements
  
  
• Appendix D (1.4 MB) - Landscape Treatment
  
  
• Appendix E has been withdrawn, designs must follow the Staffordshire Highways Base Specification
  
  
• Appendix F (876 KB) - Development and Rights of Way
  
  
• Appendix G (124 KB) - Highway Structures
  
  
• Appendix preamble (175 KB)

To discuss the guidance in connection with specific proposals please contact the development control officer for the area.

Additional information

Below, we offer a number of additional services concerning New Road Agreements (Section 38 Highways Act 1980). For more information you can contact us at  road.adoptions@staffordshire.gov.uk.

• Copy of Section 38 Agreements: £51.00
  
  
• Copy of Section 38 Bond: £51.00
  
  
• Copy of exemption notice: £51.00
  
  
• General Correspondence: £51.00
  
  
• Copy Section 220 notice: £51.00

• Licence to Plant - Section 142 of the Highways Act 1980: £102.00 ( for Residents) 
• Licence to place benches in highway - Section 14 Public Health Act 1925: £205.00 (for Parish Councils) 
• Licence to place notice boards etc in the highway - Section 115e of the Highways Act 1980: £205.00 ( for Parish Councils) 
  
  
• Licence to Plant for Parish Councils for flower beds - Section 96 Highways Act 1980: £205.00