The Design Guide covers all aspects of design focusing on specific types of development and specific areas. Its purpose is to ensure that the quality of design in the Borough is raised to reflect our Corporate aim of making Swindon an enjoyable place to live, work and play. It does this by providing clear criteria for assessing planning applications.

The adopted Swindon Design Guide (pictured above), due to its size, is available as a series of downloadable pdf files:

Flyer (225KB)

Part 1 (1,486KB)

Part 2 (1,128KB)

Part 3 (919KB)

Part 4 (1,267KB)

Part 5 (767KB)

Part 6 (1,294KB)

Part 7 (1,356KB)

Part 8 (319KB)

Shopfronts Coding Guidance

The Shopfronts Coding Guidance Note will be applied whenever planning consent is required for a new or amended shopfront. It provides detailed criteria against which proposals for shopfronts will be assessed, with the objective of improving the quality of shopfront design in the borough.

The adopted Shopfronts Coding Guidance Note (pictured above) is available as a  downloadable pdf file:

Shopfronts Guide (1,385KB)

Together these documents meet Promise 36.

Printed Documents

Hard copies will be  available to the public for purchase from mid January; please see the ‘Obtaining Printed Copies’ page for details of how to obtain the documents. If you have any further queries please telephone Richard Bell on 01793 466706.

This web page was updated on Thursday 21 December 2006.