Guidance

The LDA aims to intelligently utilise standardisation in design and construction to improve quality, reduce cost, increase certainty, and deliver consistency across LDA homes. This means all future LDA residents can expect the same level of quality and services across all LDA developments. With a focus on well-designed apartment and house layouts, carefully considered communal areas and cost- effective materials, we aim to build homes that are safe, easy to maintain and energy efficient.

All guidance, layouts and specifications provided have gone through a rigorous internal technical and cost review process, in addition to external peer review to ensure the optimum solution has been provided. These guidelines are not intended to curtail creativity of the design team or prescribe any particular architectural response, but to provide the design team with a clear brief that will form the basis on which design teams can develop a site-specific response. For a design to be considered successful it should achieve a coalescence of efficiency, quality and place-making.

The LDA Typology Booklets

Apartment Typology Booklet

The purpose of this guide is to facilitate the efficient delivery of affordable homes. The importance of a well-designed apartment layouts, that prioritise the needs of the resident cannot be underestimated. Compliance with the various housing standards, daylight requirements, building regulation and efficiency requirements whilst important should not inhibit the design of functional and usable homes. The LDA support efficient, standardised and well-coordinated apartment design to achieve quality and consistency across developments, with an emphasis on practical layouts, good daylight, adequate storage and communal spaces, aiming to deliver safe and sustainable homes.

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Low Rise Typology Booklet

The LDA Low-Rise Typology Booklet is a design guidance document to facilitate the efficient delivery of well-designed Affordable Purchase. The purpose of this guide is to facilitate the efficient delivery of Affordable Purchase own door homes. The LDA support sustainable residential development and compact growth in line with the 'Compact Settlement Guidelines' and the objectives of the 'LDA Sustainability Development Strategy' to achieve quality design, through the use of low-rise own door homes in appropriate locations. With an emphasis on well designed homes, considered open spaces and cost-effective materials, our aim is to create safe, sustainable communities.

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