SHOPFRONTS

CHDF, with the Canterbury Society and Canterbury City Council, have agreed a Shopfront Guidelines document controlling the design of new shopfronts and the adaptation of existing front. The tone of the historic centre is strongly influenced by the style of the many commercial premises particularly in the primary shopping streets, which exhibit great skill and variety in their composition, while exhibiting many unifying and common characteristics, particularly proportion, with traditional style painted fascias and suspended projecting signs, and a common set of parts making up the frontage. These principles are
applied to the design of new frontages, thus perpetuating the harmonious overall character of these important areas.