Caerphilly County Borough Council is seeking residents’ views on how shop fronts should look.
The council was the first local authority in Wales to adopt its Local Development Plan (LDP) – a blueprint for development planning until 2021.
The LDP identifies where new developments such as housing, employment, community facilities and roads will go and sets out the council’s land use policies.
The council is adding to the plan with guidance on how shop fronts and advertisements should look.
As a result it has prepared Supplementary Planning Guidance (LDP12: Shop Fronts & Advertisements). It is aimed at assisting all owners, designers and shop fitters in preparing proposals for creating, retaining or altering a shop front or a display sign on commercial premises.
Comments should be submitted in writing to the council no later than February 15 2012.
Which shop fronts are these exactly??????
Being an old fogey, I dont really like these huge plate glass shopfronts, years ago att he time of the first Caerphilly Civic Society, we proposed that Caerphilly`s unique seling point wolud be to have olde worlde Victorian shopfronts.
Plate glass or mullioned windows, be assured that our local drunken louts will smash them on Saturday nights.
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