Abstract
The paper explores at a more general level points raised in a previous study of the implications of density and overshadowing for passive solar housing for Milton Keynes New Town, England. Solar and typical land were data were fed into a simple housing layout model which simulated the performance of typical house types, frontages and densities. Single storey and narrow frontage two-storey housing suffer less from overshadowing, but many of the cases which failed were shown to be possible with different land use plans. Even three storey housing is possible. Land use policies should take into account the sort of relationships the paper shows to exist between the variables considered. By varying the parameters, the method could be used both by designers to review the options open to them and by planning agencies to check the possible effects of their policies in practice.
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