Sowing the Seed

Urban design policy

Sheaf Square, Sheffield.
Sheffield City Council
Sheffield
Key Principles:
  • Integrating urban design in local planning policy
  • Providing support for design quality
CGI images from Essex's Urban Place Supplement.
Essex Design Initiative
Essex
Key Principles:
  • Raising design awareness
  • Providing support for design quality
Angell Town, Brixton won a gold award in 2006.
Building for Life
National
Key Principles:
  • Setting quality standards
  • Using standards to improve quality of proposals
The
South East Regional Design Panel
South East England
Key Principles:
  • Running a regional design panel
  • Raising design quality

Urban Design Frameworks

New infrastructure in towns and cities such as Barnsley Transport Interchange.
Renaissance Towns and Cities Programme
Yorkshire and Humberside
Key Principles:
  • Developing a regional strategy for design quality
  • Working with multi-disciplinary teams to develop deliverable plans
Ashford Urban Development Framework.
Ashford Local Development Framework (LDF)
Ashford
Key Principles:
  • Creating a responsive development framework
  • Achieving consensus on large challenges
Artist's impression from Yeovil Vision. Credit: REAL
Yeovil Urban Development Framework
Yeovil
Key Principles:
  • Gaining political support for a framework
  • Working with multi-disciplinary teams to develop deliverable plans

Sustainable Design

Inspire East Excellence Framework.
Inspire East Excellence Framework
Eastern England
Key Principles:
  • Creating a web-based tool to deliver sustainable communities
The fusion scheme at Allerton Bywater was one of the first to deliver English Partnerships' quality standards.
English Partnerships/ Housing Corporation Design quality standards
Nationwide
Key Principles:
  • Developing standards as a tool to delivery

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