Urban Design London

Considering the new emergency active travel fund and the national Cycling and Walking Plan and unpacking the revised national guidance on designing infrastructure for cyclists. This training should benefit all those involved in delivering active travel. 

An opportunity to discuss the implications of the White Paper: Planning for the Future

Agenda:

14.00 Welcome

14.10 Introducing the White Paper’s design & placemaking approach - Jennifer Thomas, MHCLG

14.30 Responses

• Nicholas Boys Smith, Create Streets
• Matthew Carmona, UCL
• Samuel Hughes, Policy Exchange

15.15 Comfort break

15.30 A new Design Body – Panel Discussions

• Sue Morgan, Design Council
• Christopher Martin, Urban Design Group
• Julie Tanner, Design Network
• Matthew Carmona, Place Alliance

We will introduce and explain important tools to help deliver health through placemaking, including Building for a Healthy Life and Healthy Streets. We will guide you through the type of things to consider at different scales to ensure successful, healthy outcomes. 

Considering the best ways for local authorities to deal with these processes, how to consider relevant prior notification considerations and how best to deliver design quality under this system.

This session will be particularly useful for those with their own home building programmes or looking to start one.  We will consider best practice, pit falls and trends across this important area of local authority work.

We will take stock on the changes that have been made to town centres, cycling spaces, trafficked routes and pavements to help us cope with Covid-19. We will look forward and consider how emergency and temporary changes might become permanent.

We will look at some of the most important ways we can deliver well designed places, including Design Codes and Design Review.  We will provide an update on the Governments Design Code work.

We will consider what makes a complete neighbourhood and how planning, transport and public realm interventions can help create them. We will look at ideas past delegates have had to improve their own areas.

Taking stock of viability, this vital session will separate fact from fiction and help us understand the essential elements of any viability assessment. We will investigate policy changes and funding streams and examine how these can support social value for your communities.

The government commissioned production of a new version of this very important document during 2020. We will look at progress so far in its production and discuss how best to ensure highway teams learn about and use it to help create better streets and public places.

This might be in person, or virtual, depending on safety concerns. But either way we will see and learn about some of the most innovative and well-designed recent schemes around.