Building design in Ebbsfleet

Ebbsfleet’s buildings should be as characterful and distinctive as our landscapes, and accessible, healthy and sustainable for everybody at every stage of their lives. Use the guidance below to demonstrate compliance with these design objectives in your next planning application >

Architecture that is characterful and distinctive to Ebbsfleet

Use our design narratives to ensure your buildings are characterful and distinctive to Ebbsfleet.

Click here to explore our building character guide, and use one of our four design narratives >

Sustainable and resilient buildings [Coming soon]

Sustainable travel and parking

Click here to review our design guidance on supported approaches to parking, parking standards and sustainable travel facilities that you should include in your planning application >

Accessible and inclusive of everybody

EDC’s accessible design guidance and tools are intended to help deliver homes and buildings that are accessible to everybody, Click on a resource below to ensure your application is compliant >

> Accessible layout guidance for smaller house types - how to meet M4 part 2.

>Use our one page guide to present your house type layouts and demonstrate M4 part2 compliance.

>M4 Part 2 Checklist - can be used by applicants and Planning Officers to demonstrate or test compliance in planning applications.

Getting the details right…

EDC has developed a range of detailed design guides for key building elements. Together these form a design-code for the detailing of your building, which will be used to assess planning applications.