Design Guide

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• Introduction
• The design of the garden suburb
• New Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust
• Barnet Council
• The Trust and the Council
• Extensions
• Building materials and details
• Walling materials
• Tiles
• Roofs
• Dormer windows & loft conversions
• Gutters and pipes
• Chimneys
• Porches
• Windows and doors
• Garages and parking spaces
• Garden buildings
• Fences, walls and hedges
• Landscaping and trees
• Satellite dishes
• Shopfronts and advertisements
• Listed buildings
• Glossary
• Making applications to:
• The Trust
• Barnet Council
• Additional information

Shopfronts and advertisements

If you wish to alter a shopfront or put up an advertisement within one of the Suburb’s two shopping areas, you should fellow the guide lines listed bellow:

• where original shopfronts exist, these should be retained wherever possible. If the shopfront is listed, its removal or replacement will be strongly resisted.
• if replacement is necessary, you should use sympathetic materials, preferably painted timber in muted colour or stained, as appropriate, with traditional features, eg. Recessed doorway, stall riser etc.
• sub-divide glazed areas to achieve a well proportioned shop front.
• keep shop signs ithin the limits of the fascia and avoid lurid colour.
• in preference use signs that are painted directly on the fascia with lettering of no more than 30 cm (12’’) in height (depending on the proportions of the fascia) or that are formed from individual lettering in timber, bronze or other metal.
• follow the same principles for projecting signs. They should not project more than 1 meter from the face of the building or be greater than 0.75 metres in depth (2’8’’). Only one sign per property is permitted.
• illumination, where acceptable, should normally be external to the signs, ie. Trough lights or spotlights. Internally illuminated box signs re unlikely to preserve or enhance the character of the Conservation Area and should be avoided. Proposals for illuminated signs on listed buildings will receive particularly careful scrutiny.
• external security shutters and grilles are particularly unattractive. The best solution is the use of an internal grille mesh set immediately behind the window in front of the display area. This can be retracted or removed during the day. Internal black, brick bond mesh grille is the least intrusive solution. An external mesh grille which complies with the above advice may be acceptable in certain locations, but this is unlikely to be acceptable on listed buildings.
• blinds are usually allowed on shops displaying food or perishable goods if sunlight is a problem, but they can obscure interesting features of the shopfront and cause a dominant shape that obscures adjacent shops. If appropriate, blinds should comprise a straight awning with a folding arm machanism.

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