Tue 27/09/22
Zoom
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Discussing the different tools at your disposal to manage your area and when each can best be used. We will in particular look at the roles of vision setting, policy, masterplans and design codes, including who is responsible for them and their role in decision making and how these tools fit into the current planning system. Including:
- How policies, design guides, masterplans and design codes combine
- When to use which tools
- Quality compliance tools
Tue 04/10/22
Related Events: Introduction to Placemaking
Helping delegates gain an understanding of what makes a great neighbourhood. We will look at the characteristics of well-designed places, how these can help achieve planning and wider policy objectives and the tools and processes we need to get a good outcome. Including:
- Why we need good placemaking and place design
- Setting out the principles of good design
- Introducing design tools, codes, and processes
Wed 12/10/22
Zoom
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We will look at what you need as an organisation to be in the best place to deliver place design including the skills and capacity of your teams, digital tools, design codes and resources at your disposal and how your organisation can champion good design. Including:
- How to gauge your own capacity and capabilities
- Options for growing your own expertise
- How best to precure and use external input
Thu 27/10/22
Zoom
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This session will explain what the current Bill says about place design, housebuilding and the use of design codes and guides and how this relates to the latest government guidance, research and best practice. It will help consider how changes might relate to your own work and priorities. Including:
- Overview of the Bill’s planning and design contents
- Discussion on impact of consultation and committee stages
- Advice on how to prepare to implement changes once in force
Thu 10/11/22, 12–1.30pm
Zoom
These high-level briefings will discuss current policy research and best practice from across the country. The sessions will support cabinet members, planning committee and ward members interested in the delivery of local design codes and well-designed neighbourhoods and explore the role in championing design codes and good design.
Tue 15/11/22
Zoom
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This session will look at how to understand your area, develop character appraisals and assessments to inform local codes and guides, including the different types of evidence available to help you consider how best to manage change in your area and looking at how codes relate to plan-making. Including:
- Characterisation techniques
- Using data sources
- Setting and managing character areas
Wed 23/11/22
Zoom
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We will look at the importance of using clear, appropriate, and targeted ways of explaining what people should, or should not, be designing in your area, making sure codes get used and how to communicate them using different types of graphics and text, with a practical look at commissioning design work. Including:
- Best use of graphic material
- Emerging use of virtual and emergent reality
- Why physical models are useful
Wed 30/11/22
Zoom
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Understanding the important role that streets play in supporting healthy, sustainable, and successful communities. We will look at how to prioritise active travel and balance the needs of street life, travel by different modes in different types of areas, and environmental improvements. Referring to the new Manual for Streets (if published), including:
- The importance of good street design
- What makes a liveable neighbourhood?
- Kerbside demand and its challenges
Wed 07/12/22
Zoom
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Discussing how best to plan your work, the difference between site, neighbourhood and area wide codes and the need to balance flexibility with certainty for communities and developers alike, including the balance between loose and tight codes, those that give certainty and clarity for strategic design and use aspects up front. Including:
- Explanation of how codes work at different spatial scales
- Discussion of how rigid, or flexible your codes should be
- Options for working with developers or others to create/adopt codes
Wed 14/12/22
Zoom
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Considering the place design elements that can best be directed through codes including building and street dimensions, forms and details, trees, planting, Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems and parking approaches. We will look at how best to balance early certainty of outcome with allowing for creative design solutions to emerge during the process. Including:
- Overview of common contents found in different types of codes
- Advice on what elements to prioritise within your own codes
- Discussion on how best to ‘code’ these elements to achieve good results
Thu 05/01/23
Zoom
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Looking at the best ways to work with communities and stakeholders to deliver shared objectives. This session will include best ways to engage and co-create codes, how best to encourage pro-active communities and working with developers and land-owners. Including:
- Understanding who to engage with, when and why
- Building and sustaining relationships
- Combining on-line and face to face engagement
Thu 12/01/23
Zoom
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This session will consider best use of design quality management processes, how to make sure design requirements are not watered down over time and how to use viability and negotiation approaches to best advantage. Including:
- Setting clear quality requirements up front
- Using design review systems
- Compliance trackers
Tue 07/02/23
Zoom
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This session looks at how to ensure our homes and residential neighbourhoods are well-designed and sustainable. It will set out design principles that support sustainability, health, and well-being, and look at how good design can help homes and neighbourhoods successfully integrate, enabling communities to flourish. Including:
- Why we need well-designed homes
- Housing design principles – including Building for a Healthy Life
- Understanding different housing typologies
Tue 21/02/23, 12–1.30pm
Zoom
These high-level briefings will discuss current policy research and best practice from across the country. The sessions will support cabinet members, planning committee and ward members interested in the delivery of local design codes and well-designed neighbourhoods and explore the role in championing design codes and good design.
Wed 22/02/23
Zoom
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An overview of changes to Building Regulations, Biodiversity Net Gain and water management requirements. We will consider how these come together and influence scheme design and placemaking tools such as design codes. Including:
- How best to link environmental requirements to your policies
- How to explain what is required, and why, to all involved
- How to check whether schemes meet requirements
Wed 08/03/23
Zoom
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Looking at the relationship between large-scale spatial planning, movement networks, individual site layouts and the detailed design of buildings and spaces and the relationship between masterplans and design codes. Including:
- The relationship between movement networks, building density and land use
- Catchment areas for services and optimising active travel options
- A golden design thread from large-scale master planning to individual plot designs
Tue 28/03/23
Zoom
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This session will examine this important new government guidance, due to be published by the Department of Transport in late 2022 and discuss how it relates to design codes and your highways, planning and housing delivery work in general. Including:
- Overview of MFS content
- Discussion on how it applies to our planning work
- Focus on guidance provided on new build streets that require planning permission