Aim

To create a development of high quality, distinctiveness and local identity to meet the local housing needs in the area.

Objectives

• Create a development which is sustainable, innovative and resource efficient through the incorporation of a range of environmental features to reduce the development’s carbon footprint.
• Promote tenant/community involvement in the design and decision making process.
• Observe the site’s context and integrate any new development with the surrounding built environment at both a physical and community based level.
• Provide a safe and pleasant environment providing security, as well as being modern and attractive.
• Re-establish connectivity with the existing town through accessible and legible pedestrian and vehicular routes with appropriate supervision.
• Provide a mix of house types, with housing designed on a scale appropriate to the surrounding environs.
• Meet the needs of the community in terms of choice of housing through mixed tenure and affordability.
• Provide housing which is accessible and adaptable by observing Barrier Free and Housing for Varying Needs Principles.
• Create a platform for the analysis, investigation of need and use of appropriate community facilities, within the wider Kincardine area.
• To create a “Sense of Place”.