People in the Great Yarmouth area are being asked to help shape future developments across the borough.

Great Yarmouth Borough Council is inviting people to help shape a key planning document which will help set out clear principles and standards for how developments should be designed in the borough.

The public consultation on the Great Yarmouth Borough-Wide Design Code Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) runs until Friday, September 15.

Its final aim will be to improve the design quality of new developments in the borough.

The policy is an additional planning document that will add further guidance and detail around the application of existing design-based policies in the council’s adopted Local Plan.

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The SPD will set out clear principles and standards for how development should be designed in the borough.

As a code, it will also signpost people and developers to other sources of design regulation, guidance, assessment tools and best practice.

The consultation is being undertaken in line with the council’s adopted Statement of Community Involvement and, following the consultation, the comments received will be considered and the document finalised ahead of being adopted.

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A spokesperson for Great Yarmouth Borough Council said: “We welcome all feedback and comments on this planning document, because we believe residents should help us shape how future developments should be designed.”

People are encouraged, when making specific comments on the content of the document, to make it clear which section(s) their comments relate to.

Comments will be accepted via email and can be sent to localplan@great-yarmouth.gov.uk or by post to Strategic Planning, Great Yarmouth Borough Council, Town Hall, Hall Plain, Great Yarmouth, NR30 2QF.

The borough council is the main planning authority for the area, with a committee and officers scrutinising developments and planning applications.