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Village Design Statement
Information and documents regarding the village design statement will be shown here
The Sherfield English VDS has now been endorsed by the Parish Council and formally adopted by TVBC as a Supplementary Planning Document. It now has statutory authority, and must be taken into account in any planning application for a new build or extension. The full VDS is available here for download (1.2Mb).
This brings to conclusion 2 years of research and consultation within the village. The final document contains a lot more background information and detailed explanation, but remains essentially the same as the first draft circulated in the village newsletter in 2012.
The objective of the VDS is to allow reasonable development to proceed without harming the rural character of the village, and without diminishing the visual amenity of the open spaces and woodland views.
The village’s character is defined as being essentially that of dispersed small groups of dwellings, with no large concentrations, and no closely parallel or tightly folding street patterns. Or put another way, the plots of all dwellings should have direct contact with either fields or woodland. This specfically rules out ‘backland’ or ‘tandem’ developments.