Belfast·SPG005 Placemaking and Urban Design·Page 31·4.4.3
Flexible and adaptable space design
Public realm spaces must be designed to be flexible and adaptable, with connections to main streets and surrounding uses, to avoid becoming underutilised, unwelcoming, or attracting antisocial behaviour.
This can be achieved when a space is designed to be flexible and adaptable. Restrictive design and layouts with no connections to main streets and surrounding uses will become underutilised and unwelcoming. Such spaces can attract antisocial behaviour, have a negative impact on businesses and residential communities and can require additional resources to counteract bad design retrospectively.
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