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Welcome to Ebbsfleet's
Public Realm Strategy

The public realm strategy has been co-developed with Kent County Council highways team to provides a toolkit to promote the design and delivery of streets and public spaces that support happy and healthy lives for all of our residents in the Garden City, be they human or creature.

Intro to the Public Realm Strategy

ebbsfleet’s
Landscapes

Ebbsfleet’s iconic landscapes provide a rich source of inspiration for developing distinctive and characterful public realm. Use this landscape character overview to guide the characterisation of your public realm design concept.

Dujardin Mews.jpg — street designs

We have produced six prototype designs for streets and public spaces, which EDC will use to benchmark all future planning applications going forwards.
Use these layouts as the starting point for your public realm design, follow the guidance points, and ensure you provide the same (or greater) number of street trees and area of planting (m2).

Hard landscape & street furniture

Use this guidance to inform the specification and detailing of hard surfaces in Ebbsfleet public realm projects to achieve characterful, affordable, durable and sustainable hard surfaces and street furniture.

planting guidance

Use this guidance to inform the specification of trees and planting in your public realm project, and embed a viable management strategy for planting that can be sustained into the future

Wayfinding in ebbsfleet

Use our maps and guidance to identify where you need to provide wayfinding furniture in your scheme.
We have developed our ‘wayfinding’ approach to help everybody find their way around Ebbsfleet easily, and preferably by walking, cycling, or taking public transport.

street
design criteria

This Framework provides a design tool to be used by design teams and stakeholders to collectively review and quantify the design performance of streets and public realm projects across across 9 key indicators.

Design process

Use this enhanced design process to guide you from project initiation to delivery for all new public realm schemes in Ebbsfleet. Ebbsfleet’s public realm design process builds on the Kent Design Guide to prioritise integrated and inclusive design that is co-owned by all design specialists, as well as key stakeholders and the local community.