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Butts Green

View across green in housing square.

Houses act as sentries to separate access to court.

Red Light! - Location of parking may encourage users to come and go without accessing homes from the street.

Proceed with Caution! - Courts are remote from the homes they serve and offer limited visual contact with residents' vehicles. The provision of bicycle sheds is sensible, but is offset by the physical distance they are from homes. The detailing of garage blocks is of lower quality than that of the surrounding houses.

Green Light! - The landscape design promises much for the future quality of the court, and the surfacing materials are of good quality. Breaking the block into three distinct parking courts encourages sense or ownership over them.

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Plan showing typical arrangement of off-plot, rear-court type parking within the scheme.

Red Light! - Location of parking may encourage users to come and go without accessing homes from the street.

Proceed with Caution! - Courts are remote from the homes they serve and offer limited visual contact with residents' vehicles. The provision of bicycle sheds is sensible, but is offset by the physical distance they are from homes. The detailing of garage blocks is of lower quality than that of the surrounding houses.

Green Light! - The landscape design promises much for the future quality of the court, and the surfacing materials are of good quality. Breaking the block into three distinct parking courts encourages sense or ownership over them.

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Building stature ensures cars do not dominate.

Proceed with Caution! - Presence of cars interrupts view from ground floor area to landscape area.

Green Light! - The integration of a landscaped circus with a quality parking solution promises a high quality environment when mature, with a high quality of detail design and material specification throughout. The provision of on-street, unallocated parking supplements parking provision in rear courts and encourages the use of the fronts of homes. Good surveillance of cars from both homes and public space.

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Plan showing typical arrangement of on-street parking, angled to the pavement.

Proceed with Caution! - Presence of cars interrupts view from ground floor area to landscape area.

Green Light! - The integration of a landscaped circus with a quality parking solution promises a high quality environment when mature, with a high quality of detail design and material specification throughout. The provision of on-street, unallocated parking supplements parking provision in rear courts and encourages the use of the fronts of homes. Good surveillance of cars from both homes and public space.

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Semi private access to front of crescent good for defensible space.

Proceed with Caution! - Presence of cars interrupts view from ground floor area to landscape area.

Green Light! - The integration of a landscaped circus with a quality parking solution promises a high quality environment when mature, with a high quality of detail design and material specification throughout. The provision of on-street, unallocated parking supplements parking provision in rear courts and encourages the use of the fronts of homes. Good surveillance of cars from both homes and public space.

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Spaces close to trees to reduce impact of cars.

Proceed with Caution! - Presence of cars interrupts view from ground floor area to landscape area.

Green Light! - The integration of a landscaped circus with a quality parking solution promises a high quality environment when mature, with a high quality of detail design and material specification throughout. The provision of on-street, unallocated parking supplements parking provision in rear courts and encourages the use of the fronts of homes. Good surveillance of cars from both homes and public space.

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Plan showing typical arrangement of on-plot, mews court type parking.

Proceed with Caution! - Location of entrance doors over-emphasizes hard-standing, and there is also a lack of clarity in defining areas of visitors' parking. There is fairly limited surveillance of external road caused the inward looking nature of the scheme.

Green Light! - Two-storey accommodation over garages makes efficient use of land. Entrance to - and scale of - court encourages sense of ownership and community interaction. There is good surveillance of the parking court from surrounding homes.

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Duplex flatted accommodation over integral garages.

Proceed with Caution! - Location of entrance doors over-emphasizes hard-standing, and there is also a lack of clarity in defining areas of visitors' parking. There is fairly limited surveillance of external road caused the inward looking nature of the scheme.

Green Light! - Two-storey accommodation over garages makes efficient use of land. Entrance to - and scale of - court encourages sense of ownership and community interaction. There is good surveillance of the parking court from surrounding homes.

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Access to block creates defensible space.

Proceed with Caution! - Location of entrance doors over-emphasizes hard-standing, and there is also a lack of clarity in defining areas of visitors' parking. There is fairly limited surveillance of external road caused the inward looking nature of the scheme.

Green Light! - Two-storey accommodation over garages makes efficient use of land. Entrance to - and scale of - court encourages sense of ownership and community interaction. There is good surveillance of the parking court from surrounding homes.

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Plan showing location of case studies within the wider development. A) On street -angled to pavement; B) On plot; mews court; C) Off plot - rear court; D) On plot - chauffeur unit.

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Easy access from parking to house, but nowhere for visitors.

Red Light! - Parking in front of chauffeur unit detracts from overall streetscape.

Proceed with Caution! - Chauffeur unit creates limited ground floor surveillance.

Green Light! - Accommodation over garages encourages flexible living and adds visual interest to streetscape, with easy access from garage to homes.

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Parking in front of chauffeur unit undermines its attempt to reinvent garages.

Red Light! - Parking in front of chauffeur unit detracts from overall streetscape.

Proceed with Caution! - Chauffeur unit creates limited ground floor surveillance.

Green Light! - Accommodation over garages encourages flexible living and adds visual interest to streetscape, with easy access from garage to homes.

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Back of chauffeur unit is a blank gable.

Red Light! - Parking in front of chauffeur unit detracts from overall streetscape.

Proceed with Caution! - Chauffeur unit creates limited ground floor surveillance.

Green Light! - Accommodation over garages encourages flexible living and adds visual interest to streetscape, with easy access from garage to homes.

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Chauffeur units look at home in wider streetscape.

Red Light! - Parking in front of chauffeur unit detracts from overall streetscape.

Proceed with Caution! - Chauffeur unit creates limited ground floor surveillance.

Green Light! - Accommodation over garages encourages flexible living and adds visual interest to streetscape, with easy access from garage to homes.

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Plan showing typical arrangement of off-plot, chauffeur unit type parking within the scheme.

Red Light! - Parking in front of chauffeur unit detracts from overall streetscape.

Proceed with Caution! - Chauffeur unit creates limited ground floor surveillance.

Green Light! - Accommodation over garages encourages flexible living and adds visual interest to streetscape, with easy access from garage to homes.

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Railings enable cars to be seen from both sides.

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Gable and bonded gravel lifts otherwise simple layout.

Red Light! - Location of parking may encourage users to come and go without accessing homes from the street.

Proceed with Caution! - Courts are remote from the homes they serve and offer limited visual contact with residents' vehicles. The provision of bicycle sheds is sensible, but is offset by the physical distance they are from homes. The detailing of garage blocks is of lower quality than that of the surrounding houses.

Green Light! - The landscape design promises much for the future quality of the court, and the surfacing materials are of good quality. Breaking the block into three distinct parking courts encourages sense or ownership over them.

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Materials change on entry to denote private space.

Red Light! - Location of parking may encourage users to come and go without accessing homes from the street.

Proceed with Caution! - Courts are remote from the homes they serve and offer limited visual contact with residents' vehicles. The provision of bicycle sheds is sensible, but is offset by the physical distance they are from homes. The detailing of garage blocks is of lower quality than that of the surrounding houses.

Green Light! - The landscape design promises much for the future quality of the court, and the surfacing materials are of good quality. Breaking the block into three distinct parking courts encourages sense or ownership over them.

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Generous proportions will cope with bad parkers.

Red Light! - Location of parking may encourage users to come and go without accessing homes from the street.

Proceed with Caution! - Courts are remote from the homes they serve and offer limited visual contact with residents' vehicles. The provision of bicycle sheds is sensible, but is offset by the physical distance they are from homes. The detailing of garage blocks is of lower quality than that of the surrounding houses.

Green Light! - The landscape design promises much for the future quality of the court, and the surfacing materials are of good quality. Breaking the block into three distinct parking courts encourages sense or ownership over them.

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Railings enable cars to be seen from both sides.

Proceed with Caution! - Presence of cars interrupts view from ground floor area to landscape area.

Green Light! - The integration of a landscaped circus with a quality parking solution promises a high quality environment when mature, with a high quality of detail design and material specification throughout. The provision of on-street, unallocated parking supplements parking provision in rear courts and encourages the use of the fronts of homes. Good surveillance of cars from both homes and public space.

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Pedestrian route through to adjacent square.

Proceed with Caution! - Location of entrance doors over-emphasizes hard-standing, and there is also a lack of clarity in defining areas of visitors' parking. There is fairly limited surveillance of external road caused the inward looking nature of the scheme.

Green Light! - Two-storey accommodation over garages makes efficient use of land. Entrance to - and scale of - court encourages sense of ownership and community interaction. There is good surveillance of the parking court from surrounding homes.

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Additional spaces in front court.

Proceed with Caution! - Location of entrance doors over-emphasizes hard-standing, and there is also a lack of clarity in defining areas of visitors' parking. There is fairly limited surveillance of external road caused the inward looking nature of the scheme.

Green Light! - Two-storey accommodation over garages makes efficient use of land. Entrance to - and scale of - court encourages sense of ownership and community interaction. There is good surveillance of the parking court from surrounding homes.

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Space submitted by Sam Brown

17 October 2013