The human version (we wrote this, not the council)
This section sets out Objective 4, on quality of place. It aims to create welcoming, safe and accessible places, with high-quality design that reflects Buckinghamshire's character, neighbourhoods with local services, well-integrated parking and vibrant public spaces. Although the county is generally prosperous, it contains some of the most deprived wards in the country in Aylesbury and High Wycombe. Regeneration strategies for Aylesbury, High Wycombe and Chesham, and the Buckinghamshire Design Code, support this objective.
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Planning for Quality of Place
Local Plan Objective 4 Aim: Create great places to live and work that function well, and are welcoming, safe, and accessible to all.
a) Take inspiration from the valued and unique characteristics of Buckinghamshire to deliver high quality design that reinforces Buckinghamshire’s distinctiveness, while being innovative in construction and design where appropriate.
b) Create neighbourhoods where goods and services are available locally, are supportive of healthy lifestyles and social connectedness, easy to move through and easy to understand.
c) Provide sufficient and well-integrated parking.
d) Ensure development meets energy efficiency standards and design that promotes natural surveillance to improve safety.
e) Secure a safe, accessible, inclusive, and robust network of spaces across Buckinghamshire for recreation, play, biodiversity, and water infrastructure.
f) Create safe and vibrant public spaces in towns and villages.
4.13 Whilst Buckinghamshire is generally a prosperous county, it contains some of the most deprived wards in the country in both Aylesbury and High Wycombe. This deprivation is associated with a higher number of health issues and poorer life outcomes.
4.14 The Local Plan can help contribute to mitigating existing challenges such as improving access to green space, making places easier to get around, and enhancing the built environment so that people are proud of it and feel safer.
4.15 Our Regeneration Strategies for Aylesbury, High Wycombe and Chesham form part of the Buckinghamshire response to these issues and help create welcoming and vibrant public spaces in our main towns. The Local Plan supports high quality development and builds on the unique positive characteristics of our various places, setting out key principles for how future development should take place. This is supported by the Buckinghamshire Design Code. Ultimately, we want to be able to create places which are pleasant to live and work in, and as importantly, which function well, to support positive life outcomes for all.