Fareham Borough Design Guidance SPD (Excluding Welborne)

The Fareham Borough Design Guidance (excluding Welborne) SPD provides further visual guidance to Policy CS17: High Quality Design of the Core Strategy and sets out Fareham Borough Council's aspirations for high quality design to householders, developers and other interested parties.

The document has been produced in a manner and using language that is accessible to all members of the community including those without previous knowledge or experience of the planning system.

By following the Guidance and working closely with the Council and the community, how to achieve planning permission should be clearer for all interested parties. Furthermore, the principles within the Design Guidance will provide a clear framework through which high quality design can be achieved in the Borough's different settlements while having due regard to their unique characteristics.

****2026 UPDATE**** Since the adoption of the Design Guidance SPD, the Council have updated the refuse storeage design guidance set out on page 20 of the SPD to incorporate the introduction of food waste collection as follows:

Introduction

Fareham Borough Council is responsible for the collection of waste and recyclable material from all domestic properties within its boundary.

The service is a key council operation, and it is essential that all new developments are designed to enable effective and efficient collections.

Under section 46 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 the Council has powers to specify the type and number of bins to be used for waste and recycling collection, and the location where they should be placed for collection. Only waste and recycling containers provided by the Council will be emptied by the Council's collection teams.

Outline of the main requirements

The service is provided using a variety of sizes of wheeled bins.

Each house is allocated one 240 litre bin for waste, one 240 litre bin for recycling and a 23 litre bin for food waste as well as a 5 litre kitchen caddy. Garden waste is also collected in a 240 litre bin on a subscription only basis.

Flats are issued with bins varying in size depending on the number and type of dwelling; up to 240 litres of refuse and 240 litres of recycling per dwelling. Flats are issued with a communal 140 litre food waste bin per bin store and each flat is entitled to a 5 litre kitchen caddy. Garden waste is also collected from flats if required, as outlined above.

Collections from households are carried out from the kerbside; and residents are asked to place their bin at the edge of the highway on collection day. In the case of flats, collection will take place from a communal bin storage area.

Development proposals must therefore:

Comply with all applicable legislation
Provide sufficient internal storage capacity to separate waste, recycling and food waste
Provide sufficient external storage capacity for the separate waste, recycling and food waste containers, including garden waste and with room for other services, for example glass collection
Locate the waste and recycling storage areas:

So households do not need to carry material (waste and recycling) for a distance greater than 30m
So that the collection vehicle can park as close as is possible to the collection point an certainly no more than 25m away
Without being impeded by vehicles parked in a parking space
The waste and recycling storage areas must be at ground level, with dropped kerb crossings and road markings provided where necessary, to ensure that bins can be transferred to the collection vehicle unimpeded.

Waste and recycling capacity

The ratio of bins to the number of flats, and the size of bins to be installed will be at the discretion of the Council, in discussion with the developer. Developers pay for all refuse and recycling bins, there is currently no charge for food waste bins.

Flats: 240 litres each of refuse and recycling, multiplied by number of households/units.

This equates to:

Refuse approx. 1 x 1100 litre bin per 5 flats
A mixture of 1100 litre and 240 litre bins can be issued to meet required capacity
Recycling approx. 1 x 1100 litre bin per 5 flats
A mixture of 1100 litre and 240 litre bins can be issued to meet required capacity

Sheltered housing (flats): 110 litres each of refuse and recycling, multiplied by number of units.

Refuse and Recycling – if 1100 litre bins are used, thought must be given to the resident's ability to lift the heavy lids in order to deposit their waste.

Alternatively, 240 litre bins can be provided

Houses: 1 x 240 litre refuse bin, 1 x 240 litre recycling bin and 1x 23 litre food waste bin per household