Urban Design London

Mon 18/07/22

Fri 15/07/22

Thu 14/07/22

Wed 13/07/22, 10am–12pm
Zoom
Related Events: LoTAG at UDL

Alternative and innovative funding approaches for sustainable transport schemes and initiatives.

Please note this event is limited to London borough and TfL officers only.

Tue 12/07/22, 10am–12pm
Related Events: UDL In-Person

We will be hearing both client and architect perspectives of this innovative Housing Design Awards shortlisted mews housing scheme on a highly constrained site, providing a community of courtyard homes with a shared garden at their centre.

Fri 08/07/22, 11am–1pm
Site Visit
Related Events: UDL In-Person

During the year we will visit exemplary housing as well as street and public realm projects. The locations will be decided nearer the time.

Thu 07/07/22, 9.30am–12.30pm
Zoom
Related Events: Practical Planning

Looking at how development finance works and its impact on planning delivery.

Wed 06/07/22, 9.30am–12.30pm
Zoom
Related Events: Place Tech

An introduction to the range of tools available, when each might be most appropriate to use and how to go about obtaining or creating 3D resources.

Agenda

10.00 Welcome & Overview – Which 3D models and desktop tools can help us do better?

• What are the problems with current planning practice that could be improved? Exploring where the current need is and what can help.
• Exercise on Menti to identify the different areas where tools are needed and what people are looking for, Led by UDL

10.30 Approaches to help.

Evaluating tools – understanding opportunities where can tools provide clarity but also the potential limitations and distortions. What tools are appropriate for different uses and audiences? Learning from consultants, the GLA and authorities who have obtained and created 3D models and desktop tools, including live demonstrations.

• Tools for infrastructure, David Edge
• Tools the GLA would recommend, Alan Smithies
• Q&A

Comfort break

• 3D parametric capacity calculator, Louisa Facchino-Stack, Dr Walid Omeir & Paul Oesten-Creasey
• Q&A 11.30 Taking next steps
• Understanding the market, the players and funding sources, learning what action to take towards the use of 3D technology, Gareth Sumner
• Q&A

11.50 Speaker and delegate discussion

12.15 Close

Thu 30/06/22, 12–1.30pm
Zoom

Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) may be presented with design codes drawn up by developers and/or landowners, prior to setting their own local design code policy. How can LPAs ensure quality, compliance, influence and effective decision making in the process. Are there unintended consequences in developer led design codes and can they fit with LPA led, policy based area wide codes required by the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill?

Agenda

12.00 Welcome

12.05 Introducing the issue: Adrian Penfold

12:15 Making it work - examples:

• Jo Clark, Countryside Properties
• James Scott, Urban & Civic
• Laura Alvarez, Nottingham City Council
• Trovine Monteiro, Cambridge Combined Planning Service

13:00 Q&A / Discussion

13.30 Close

Wed 29/06/22, 9.30am–12.30pm
Zoom
Related Events: Urban Futures

Emerging building typologies and ways to design and deliver them including approaches to re-use and retrofit.

Agenda

10.00 Welcome

10.05 Introducing the issues

• Why thinking afresh is helpful, Sarah Allen
• The importance of flexible building use, Frances Hollis
• The impact of new building regulations on building types and designs, Adam Selvey
• The Living Report – research into future housing and city living, Kyle Buchanan

11.20 Comfort break

11.30 Considering how we use space; a student’s perspective, Tom Ushakov

11.45 Examples and new best practice

• Manchester co-living, Mark Sidebotham
• A new type of neighbourhood, Helen Arvanitakis
• Design for informal home based work, Richard Brown

12.30 Close

Tue 28/06/22, 9.30am–12.30pm
Zoom
Related Events: Building Homes

Understanding how land is bought, how housing projects are funded and who delivers developments.

Agenda

10.00 Welcome & Overview – The what, how and where of the housing market

• Overview of the housing market and how affordable housing is developed, looking at housing need, supply and demand, reviewing current trends, Rukaiya Umaru (David Lock)
• Q&A

10.30 Land opportunity explained

• Exploring how and where land is bought, and how this affects the scope for development and affordable housing over time, Chris Buckle (Savills)
• Q&A

Comfort break

11.00 The viability question

• Exploring how and where land is bought, and how this affects the scope for development and affordable housing over time, John Wacher (GLA)
• Q&A

11.25 Players in the process

• Learning about the different players in housing development, the various business drivers and how these relate to local authority and community priorities, Mark Baigent (LB Redbridge)
• Q&A

Comfort break

11.55 Focus for action

• Bringing it all together – understanding the key areas where focus is needed to unlock the right amount of high-quality homes into the future, Alexis Harris (GLA)

12.30 Wrap up & Close

Tue 28/06/22, 2–5pm
Palestra

This session will be held in-person.

The Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill published this May marks a potential flood of changes to the way planning works, and how design quality is viewed within the system. What impact might national Development Management Policies have? How would the new Infrastructure Levy differ in practice from the current system? What implications could there be from pulling the teeth of the rolling 5 year housing land supply policy? What does digitising planning mean and what could it hold in store for day to day planning practice? And what does all this mean for London?

To help us all get our heads around all this and more we have organised a face to face UDL event for our London programme members – in our old haunt- the conference rooms at Palestra.

Thu 23/06/22, 2–4.30pm
Zoom
Related Events: LoTAG at UDL

Exploring the relative roles of the public and private sector in delivering a borough wide charging network, and the policy challenges of providing universal and equitable access to charging without privatising the kerb.

Please note this event is limited to London borough and TfL officers only.

Agenda

14.00 Welcome, Dominic Millen (LoTAG)

14.10 What is the borough role in delivering the transition to electric mobility?

• Heather Watkinson (City Science)
• Richard Fullager (TfL)
• Femi Biyibi (London Councils)
• Constant Mccoll (LB Hackney)
• Mark Constable (Trojan Energy)
• Jason Munro (ODS Group)

15.10 Panel Debate & Q&A

16.00 Wrap up & Close

Tue 21/06/22, 2–5pm
Zoom
Related Events: Street Design

Join us for an afternoon unpacking programmes and projects that seek to deliver safer streets and realise Vision Zero. We will cover speed limits, traffic reduction, sustainable travel planning for schools and research on commercial van safety.

Agenda

14.00 Welcome, Esther Kurland (UDL)

14.05 Vision Zero: An Introduction, Amy Pidwill (TfL)

14.15 Lowering 20mph speed limits

• Case Study: London Borough of Richmond, Nick O’Donnell (LB Richmond & Wandsworth)

14.45 Reducing traffic on local streets for safer, greener roads to protect children and people walking and cycling.

• Case Study: Sustrans, Sam Dillon (Sustrans)
• Case Study: London Borough of Lambeth - low traffic neighbourhoods, Jess Marston (LB Lambeth)

15.15 Designing streets with safety in mind, to help everyone get around safety and make active travel attractive.

• Case Study: City of London, Simon Bradbury (City of London)
• Towards Vision Zero Report, Ross Phillips (Cross River Partnership)

15.45 Comfort break

15.55 Promoting and encouraging ways to travel that pose less risk to other people on the roads

• Case Study: STARS programme and School Streets
• Julie Plichon (LB Islington)
• Carla Leowe (Westminster City Council)
• Robert Nicolas (LB Richmond & Wandsworth)

16.40 Leading by example in committing to eliminating casualties on our streets, through supply chains and fleets

• Case Study: Euro NCAP and research on new Commercial Van Safety Rating, Matthew Avery (Thatcham)

17.00 Close

Thu 16/06/22, 9.30am–12.30pm
Zoom
Related Events: Green London

An update on policy and plans that deliver climate resilient places and reduce resource and carbon use.

Agenda

10.00 Welcome

• TfL Policy Update, Katherine Drayson (TfL)
• Diving into London’s GI Data, Katherine Drayson (TfL)

11.30 Comfort break

11.45 Green Infrastructure Guide, Pippa Henshall (LLDC)

12.15 An introduction to Green Finance, Alessandra Melis (Green Finance Institute)

12.45 Green Finance for Islington Pocket Park Framework, Ludo Pittie (WSP) & Charlotte Glazier (LB Islington)

13.15 Close

Wed 15/06/22, 9.30am–12.30pm
Zoom
Related Events: Networks

For any Councillor who has an interest in place-making and design, these sessions share knowledge, discuss topical issues and present emerging policy and research.

Agenda

10.00 Welcome

10.10 Briefing Updates on the:

• Appealing Design Report by Prof. Matthew Carmona (UCL)
• Guidance to manage and avoid appeals by former Planning Inspector Christine Thorby (The Planning Inspectorate)
• Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill (LURB).

10.45 Discussion & Panel Questions

11.30 Final Questions & Wrap up

Tue 14/06/22, 9.30am–12.30pm
Zoom
Related Events: Place Tech

A look at emerging approaches and how they can help you deliver better planning services, including greater inclusion and engagement.

Agenda

10.00 Welcome & Overview – Where are we and where are we heading?

• What are the trends for digitisation within planning? Looking at what practice has been developing and where tools are being trialled and embedded, Katja Stille
• Q&A
• Questions for Delegates – What are you using and what are you seeing? Led by UDL

10.40 Plan Making, Community Engagement and Development Management Experiences

• Using digital tools to proactively identify potential development sites, Alexa O’Neil
• Quantitative data-driven decision making, Dr Chlump Chatkupt
• Q&A

Comfort break

• Call for Sites and Land Availability Assessment - can digitech make it better? Antony Wallace
• How digital planning can help us better understand housing capacity, Euan Mills
• Cambridge Local Plan – moving towards digital by default, Hana Loftus
• Q&A

Comfort break

• Council collaboration on the open digital planning services of the future: An overview of RIPA and BOPS, Matt Wood-Hill
• Q&A

12.15 Next steps on the journey

• What is the path towards better outcomes using technology? Looking at what practical steps can help LPAs on the journey, Josh Hoare-Matthews
• Discussion

12.45 Wrap up & Close

Thu 09/06/22, 9.30am–12.30pm
Zoom
Related Events: Practical Planning

An important element of the planning process for all planning teams is negotiating good design and outcomes. This session will prepare you to deliver successful outcomes.

Wed 08/06/22, 9.30am–12.30pm
Zoom
Related Events: Understanding London

Ever popular session on the history of how London has developed, including looking at how trade, manufacturing, population changes and wars have impacted on the built city.

Agenda

10.00 Welcome & Overview – the Making of London

• What factors have led to the development of London through time? How can we understand the way the city has developed, as eco-system, hub or catalyst, Prof. Jerry White (University of London)
• Q&A

10.30 London Growth – sparks, checks and balances

• In and out – How have geography, movement, natural resources and trade contributed to London’s development? How do they continue to shape the future success of the city? Rob Whitehead (Centre for London)
• Q&A
• Comfort break

11.10 Riding the waves – How has development been affected by population growth, health crises and war? Prof. Vanessa Harding (University of London)

• Q&A

11.40 Onwards and upwards – What opportunities for the industry, house building and culture have been taken and how have these have shaped the city through time? Richard Brown

• Q&A

12.10 London of the Future

• What can we learn from the past to point the way forwards to the London of the future? Yolande Barnes (Bartlett Real Estate Institute)
• Speaker & delegate discussion

12.45 Wrap up & Close

Tue 07/06/22, 9.30am–12.30pm
Palestra
Related Events: Place Design

Explaining how to read various types of plans and understand what is being proposed. We will point out common tricks used to make you look favourably on proposals and explain the most important information you should look for.

This event will be held in-person.

Thu 26/05/22, 10am–12.45pm
Zoom

Join us to discuss practical ways in which the design and management of places can help to reduce violence against women and girls. The session will include looking at examples of places people feel safe or unsafe in to help identify common characteristics we should look to avoid or help design in.

Agenda

10.00 Welcome

• Introduction, Farah Benis (FFA Security Group & Founder, Catcalls of LDN)
• Safety & Health, Julia Thrift (TCPA)

10.30 Ways forward

• Improving the way we plan for safety, Dinah Bornat (ZCD Architects)
• Understanding where and why women and girls feel unsafe, Marina Milosev (LLDC)
• Safe in the City Apps, Laura Butterworth (LB Waltham Forest)

11.30 Tea Break

11.45 Workshop: What are the characteristics of places we feel safe or unsafe in? Lead by Deborah Saunt (DSDHA Architects), Olaide Oboh (Socius Development Limited) & Sophie Thompson (LDA Design)

12.45 Round up & Close

Wed 25/05/22, 9.30am–12.30pm
Zoom
Related Events: Green London

We will consider the benefits and challenges in delivering improvements to London’s air quality and introduce research on low emissions zones and plans for road user charging.

Agenda

10.00 Welcome and Introduction

10.10 Getting the most out of urban air quality policies

for health promotion, Dr Audrey de Nazelle (UCL)

10.30 The London Plan: Air Quality Guidance, Stephen Inch (GLA)

11.00 London Ultra Low Emission Zone: Unpacked, Katherine Howatson (TfL)

Comfort break

11.45 Future Road Charging: what are the challenges and what could it look like? Oliver Draser (TfL)

12.15 Workshop

13.00 Close

Mon 23/05/22, 11am
Palestra
Related Events: UDL In-Person

We are delighted to offer this site visit kindly hosted by LB Camden and Architects Hawkins\Brown. The scheme has an innovative mix of both retrofit and newbuild and is the largest Passivhaus scheme in the UK. We will hear about the vision underpinning the scheme and discuss the placemaking, building design and energy performance.

To reserve your place, please email us at info@urbandesignlondon.com

Thu 19/05/22, 10am–12.30pm
Zoom
Related Events: Urban Futures

This session continues the fascinating Urban Challenge project we ran in 2021 looking at new ways of considering, planning, designing and managing places. This session will focus on neighbourhoods, the building blocks of towns and cities.

Agenda

10.00 Welcome & Introduction

10.10 Local Living – Creating a New Framework for Policy,

Charlie Peel

10:30 Building a New Neighbourhood – The Phoenix Project,

Jonathan Smales

10:50 Start Where you Live… ‘Unleashing Your Real IP’, Gary

Loftus

Q&A

Comfort Break

11:30 Doughnut Economics, Laura Boyle

11:50 Sustrans Research on Walkable Neighbourhoods,

Megan Streb

Q&A

12:30 Wrap Up & Close

Wed 18/05/22, PM
Palestra
Related Events: Networks

For members in the first 10 years of their careers to meet and learn from other inspiring young practitioners.

This event will be held in-person.

Tue 17/05/22, 9.30am–12.30pm
Zoom
Related Events: Building Homes

An all-round introduction to housing design, from how a development links to the wider community through to how a home is designed.

Agenda

09.45 Registration

10.00 Welcome & Overview – Why does housing design matter?

• Understand the importance of home design and how it fits into good placemaking. Setting home design in context, looking at challenges and trends, Tom Copley (GLA)

Key characteristics of good housing design - Exploring the three key levels of housing development – relationship to the wider neighbourhood, the parts of a development and the design of the home.

10.15 Wider – Relating a development to the neighbourhood knitting the development into the wider physical, social and economic context, Esther Kurland (UDL)

• Case Study – Wider Level: Hackney Gardens, LB Hackney, Charles Jabre (DLA Architecture)
• Q&A

Comfort break

10.45 Site – How can the parts of a development work together well? Looning at types and tenures, outside and inside spaces focussing on design for people, recycling and waste, Kruti Patel (Metropolitan Workshop)

• Case Study – Site level: Beechwood Mews, LB Barnet, Phil Hamilton (Peter Barber Architects)
• Q&A

11.10 Home – Understanding aspects of good design in the home environment, Mellis Haward (Archio Ltd.)

• Case Study – Home level: Sutherland Road, Walthamstow, Kim Walker (Levitt Bernstein)
• Q&A

Comfort break

11.40 Annotation Exercise

• Practical exercise in breakout groups annotating drawings to explore learning on the three levels of design, feeding back to the wider group.

12.20 Bringing design to life

• Understand how the principles are used in practice within policy and guidance to deliver homes and places fit for London, and how these are being embedded in projects funded by the GLA, Elliot Kemp (GLA) & Alison Mayer (GLA)
• Q&A

12.45 Wrap up & Close

Thu 05/05/22, 9.30am–12.30pm
Zoom
Related Events: Street Design

An overview of active travel policies and targets looking at why it matters and how to design places that help people to choose this way of getting around.

Wed 04/05/22, am
Zoom
Related Events: Place Tech

This session will provide an overview of how digital planning is helping to save resources and provide greater accessibility to our planning processes, including a look at the trends and innovations coming forward in the built environment.

Wed 27/04/22, 9.30am–12.30pm
Zoom
Related Events: Practical Planning

This practical session will look at the best way to handle a variety of processes including enforcement and compulsory purchase orders.

Agenda

09:45 Registration

10.00 Welcome

10.10 CPO and Enforcement Processes, Piers Riley-Smith

Q&A

11:10 Considering design at appeal, Christine Thorby

Q&A

11:30 Round up and close

Thu 21/04/22, 1.30pm
Zoom
Related Events: Networks

During this afternoon session, we will be visiting the Design District in Greenwich to hear about how the design review of this interesting scheme has impacted on what we can see on the ground now. Anyone involved in using, participating or managing design reviews is welcome to share ideas and updates.

Wed 20/04/22, 9.30am–12.30pm
Palestra
Related Events: Place Design

Explaining what good place design is all about, the characteristics of successful places and how these relate to built environment policies and guidance. We will look at how to ensure places are fit for purpose, encourage easy movements, are accessible and have efficient use of land and resources.

This session will be in-person. Get in touch to confirm your place.

Agenda

09.30 Registration & Refreshments

10.00 Cool Wall: What do we think of as good design?

10.30 The 10 Characteristics of well-designed places

Comfort break

11.30 Walkabout: Urban Design in Southwark

12.30 Working Lunch: Design Review

14.00 Close