Comment

Representation ID: 56141

Received: 05/10/2020

Respondent: U+I PLC.

Agent: We are Town

While the style and character of the diagram is great – appealing and visually friendly – the level of detail and prescription
on street design and dimensions are yet again very prescriptive and appear very fixed. This level of detail is normally
expected in a design code not in an AAP Framework diagram. If this diagram and annotation are for illustrative purposes
we would welcome it but it is vital that this is stated somewhere clearly and well visible.
Also it is important to note that not all primary streets will look and be designed the same, equally for secondary and
tertiary streets. Widths need to respond to the height and scale of the building as well as their function in the hierarchy.
At present, all seem to require frontage-to-frontage distances of 21m, which would make all streets feel the same
regardless of hierarchy. Moreover within the current approach to the Core Site masterplan design only Cowley Road is set
to meet a 21m distance, whilst even some primary streets within the scheme would not do this in order to create streets
that are pedestrian priority rather than vehicular.
Figure 18, page 85: 3m wide terrace gardens in front of ground floor homes – This is very prescriptive and detailed and
may well not be appropriate for all typologies on secondary streets.