(1) The document overly focuses on urban and suburban areas without sufficient allowance or provision for rural and small village locations. This is likely to lead to inappropriate standards and guidelines being applied in rural and small village locations, which could ultimately lead to the urbanisation of these areas.
(2) Greater provision needs to be included for taking account of other local (e.g. town and parish) design guidance, such as that included in neighbourhood plans, local design codes, etc.
(3) Where the existing variation and mix of the existing built form is an attractive and valued feature of the local area (e.g. in a small hamlet or village), then provision needs to be included to ensure that new development sensitively enhances this varation, e.g. through using similar levels of variation to the existing street scene and buildings, taking the opportunity to include elements of existing detailing features and also sensitively adding new detailing features.