Urban Design London

Wed 06/07/22, 9.30am–12.30pm
Zoom
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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

Tue 14/06/22, 9.30am–12.30pm
Zoom
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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

Wed 04/05/22, am
Zoom
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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.