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Understanding and Changing Places
Geoff Wright
GW Planning
Geoff Wright MADE 27th November 2013
Local Plans
• Why produce a plan?• One of local government’s key influencing tools• Achieve regen and/ or growth (econ, social benefit)• Influence the development market• Achieve some consensus/ certainty
• How should we plan?• Top down, bottom up?• Wide or limited community engagement?• Leading or coordinating?
• What plan?
GW Planning
Geoff Wright MADE 27th November 2013
Local and Neighbourhood Plans
• Localism Act 2011• National Planning
Policy Framework• Up to date Local
Plan• Rules of the game-plan led if ‘compliant’
GW Planning
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Planning for places
Tell the story
Set the agenda
Say it clearly
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Key findings
‘you have the passion, and the knowledge in
your head. We’ve heard it today, and now we
just need to see it written’ – panel member
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Key findings
“The focus should be
on places, not on
themes and housing
numbers.” – panel
member
Key findings
‘We really need to focus on place, and the areas
that make up the place. How does it feel and
work now and into the future.’ - panel member
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Geoff Wright MADE 27th November 2013
Key findings
“Unless you’ve got some clearer direction in
here, you won’t get what you want.”
Tower Hamlets Core Strategy
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Tell the story – why and how?
quality of place matters (not generic policies)
history, context, physical characteristics
the people and communities that live there
how the area functions and relates to others
localities that are stable or need action
the particular opportunities a place offers
specific and locally relevant vision
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Set the agenda – why and how?
local leadership focus the benefits of change promote the place based possibilities work out how old and new should relate be clear how the future can be delivered outline how and when things could happen
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Say it clearly – why and how?
help people understand and engage clear expectations influencing developers prioritise the key issues selective and concise, using plain english use graphics, maps and photographs
Principles of settlement design
“Our predicament is this; we admire one kind of place but we consistently build
something very different”Andres Duany, Congress for the New Urbanism
PLACES NOT PROCEDURES
Geoff Wright MADE 27th November 2013
Geoff Wright MADE 27th November 2013
Set the agenda – why and how?
• local leadership• focus the benefits of change• promote the place based possibilities • work out how old and new should relate• be clear how the future can be delivered• outline how and when things could happen
Geoff Wright MADE 27th November 2013
Geoff Wright MADE 27th November 2013
Think 3D- Place Shaping
• Responding to topography• Spreading jam or sculpting volumes?• Urban/ suburban typologies• Capacity for intensification
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Think Green• Green Infrastructure• Strategic green space/ parks and sports• Green fingers/ networks/ paths• River and canal corridors
Think Transport
• Joined up journey experience• Hubs as focus for development • Movement corridor implications• Differentiate busy and quieter
places
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Geoff Wright MADE 27th November 2013
Street structure-connected or disconnected?
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• Density comparators• No one size fits all• Floorspace/ numbers
Fitting In, adding something special or just building?
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Geoff Wright MADE 27th November 2013
Neighbourhood Plan Compliance
• designated body (PC)• meet needs, plan
‘positively’• ‘sound’ evidence
base• support of
referendum• LPA confirms• Inspector checks
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Neighbourhood Plans
• Why produce a plan?• Taking control/ responsibility?• Community voice/ empowerment?• Vision for the future?
• How should we plan?• Inclusive/ sharing info/ using local knowledge• Consultation• Consensus
• What plan?• ???
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• Historic (planned) heart• Civic square• Significant open areas• Ribbons and groups
Sherston-structure
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• housing estates • lifestyle changes• shops/ services• schools, facilities• environment, safety• traumatic?
100 yrs of change at Sherston
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Sherston-structure
Compact
Walkable
Connected?
Choices for future
North, West, East?
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Sherston-Options for 2028
• Limited change (trend) c80 homes• Very limited change c40 homes• Go for (some) growth c120 homes
• Infill/intensify?• Change green edge(s)?• Change use/balance jobs&services?
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What sort of plan?
Projects list • Default option (schedules planning approvals
plus local projects) Charter for change• More of/ less of -directions of travel • Manifesto (avoids detail)Detailed Plan • Fully resolved allocations/ briefing• Locally generated, endorsed by District Council
And Finally-Cautionary Tales
• The only way is (not) Essex• Development management versus vision?• Tyranny of the SHLAA?
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