Belfast·SPG003 Residential Design·Page 43·3.1.53
Continuity of fronts and backs in housing arrangements
Housing layouts should provide continuity between front and back spaces to create coherent, permeable block structures that enable direct movement while securing rear garden space.
Housing layouts should seek to achieve a continuity of fronts and backs. At the neighbourhood level this arrangement provides a coherent, permeable block structure, and provides for direct movement through a site while securing rear garden space.
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