Belfast·SPG005 Placemaking and Urban Design·Page 38·4.7.3
Appropriate density levels for sustainable development
Sustainable development should generate sufficient population density to support retail, employment, education and public transport services. Higher densities are appropriate for compact city living, especially around regional and local centres, public transport nodes, parks and riverfront locations, provided good urban design principles are applied.
Sustainable development should be striving to generate a critical mass of people able to support appropriate levels of services in particular locations be these retail, employment, education or public transport. Higher density levels can be appropriate for compact city living, particularly in relation to increasing massing around regional and local centres, public transport nodes, parks and riverfront locations. In these instances, the principles of good urban design would still apply.
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