Aylesbury Vale Area Design Supplementary Planning Document

Introduction: Design Process

Design is an iterative process and preparing a scheme that responds to place must often balance many competing needs and interests.

Delivering high quality design requires good designers and it also requires an understanding of the place within which a site is located, the sensitivities of the site and its surroundings and the opportunities and challenges that these present.

Knowing who to engage with, and at what stage through the development of the design, is important and can help to ensure that a proposal meets with the council's requirements.

This chapter sets out a robust process that applicants are expected to follow in preparing their proposals.