September Events
Housing Design Conference
This annual conference will focus on housing design and will consider practical experiences of planning.
28 September 2010
1 Day
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GBP 449 + VAT
London
9.00-9.30
4.30
35609
There are no other dates for this event confirmed yet. Please call us on 0845 833 3212. for more information.
What is this conference about?
This conference will focus on the quality of housing design. It will consider practical experiences of planning and highways co-operation, together with the use of design statements, the growth of mixed use developments and the continuing demand of consumers for the type of housing they most want to live in.
Why you should attend this conference
This conference will focus on the quality of housing design. Itwill consider practical experiences of planning and highways co-operation, together with the use of design statements, the growth of mixed use developments and the continuing demand of consumers for the type of housing they most want to live in. We will also consider how the HCA is prioritising funding and setting targets and standards for new homes and sustainable communities.
Who should attend?
This briefing conference is designed for:
- Planners
- Housing associations
- Property developers
- Decision makers
Benefits of attending
By attending this conference you will:
- Learn about best examples of good housing design and how it was delivered
- Understand the wider issues affecting housing design
- Understand key contributions of other players in the process
- Learn about how planners can make a difference to the quality of housing development
- Explore how communities can influence the design of their homes and environment
Conference programme
9.00 Registration and coffee
9.30 Welcome and introduction by the Chair
Stephen Gleave, Managing Director, Taylor Young
9.40 Homes and Communities Standards
- Outline of the HCA
- What is the Single Conversation?
- Housing Design Standards – HQI’s, CSH etc
- Delivery tools and partnership working
Delyse Bailey, Investment and Regeneration Manager, Homes and Communities Agency
10.20 The role of RSLs in influencing design
- Realising the benefits of good design to RSLs
- The importance of getting the team right
- Making sense of design standards
- Being an effective design ‘champion’
- Capturing lessons of previous projects
James McMillan, Assistant Director of Development, Great Places Housing Group
11.00 Coffee and networking
11.20 Housing standards – what has to be delivered
- IIs the expectation too great? (CABE v HBF)
- Satisfying the LPA and consultation bodies
- Technical requirement site wide
- Technical Standards for dwellings
- Construction regulation
Neil Lewin , Operational Director, Taylor Young
12.00 What is happening with the Better Places - Agenda in light of the new Government?
12.40 Panel discussion
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Issues affecting Housing Market Renewal
- The role of HMR in supporting the place making agenda
- The use of master plans, development briefs and design guidance
Harmesh Jassal, Forward Programme Manager, RENEW
2.40 Sustainable urban extensions
- Addressing a growing housing crisis
- Current best practice & emerging issues
- How we can deliver more for less
Patrick Clarke, Technical Director, Scott Wilson
3.20 Participatory design: lessons from the front line
- Participatory design for housing – what does it mean?
- Who are the stakeholders and how do we work with them?
- How stakeholder participation and leadership can improve design quality
- Lessons learnt through supporting participatory design
Sophia de Sousa, Chief Executive, The Glass-House
4.00 Panel discussion
4.20 Conclusion by the chair
4.30 Close of conference - Stephen Gleave
Conference chair
Stephen Gleave is a Town Planner and Urban Designer committed to urban design. He has worked in the public and private sectors and now acts for a diverse range of clients and communities throughout the UK. He has been involved in numerous Urban Design, Development Framework and Masterplans and has been an adviser to English Partnerships on masterplanning since 2001. He has played a key role in the progression of the business as a leading architecture, town planning and landscape architecture company.
Conference speakers
Delyse Bailey is a town planner by profession who has specialised in regeneration delivery since qualifying. She helped set up and deliver housing market renewal in Liverpool before joining Taylor Young in 2007. Delyse has since returned to the public sector and is currently working for the Homes and Communities Agency as Investment and Regeneration Manager.
Patrick Clarke has played a key role in helping to shape the UK Government’s approach to planning and design over the last decade. His work has included: policy studies underpinning the development of planning policy; a series of national urban design best practice guides concerned with driving up the quality of design across the UK and Ireland; strategic planning and large scale masterplanning.
Sophia de Sousa joined The Glass-House in June 2005 and is committed to the charity’s mission to raise the standard of place-making through public participation and leadership in the design of public buildings and spaces. As Chief Executive of The Glass-House Community Led Design, Sophia works to ensure that community participation in physical regeneration is not a token gesture, but a valuable means of informing good, sustainable design that benefits local people and that will lead to the long-term improvement of neighbourhoods.
Harmesh Jassal has 20 years experience in planning and regeneration starting with Manchester City Council in 1989 with several years in development control and policy sections. This was followed by posts in high profile regeneration areas including Newham in East London, East Manchester NDC , Bradford URC and now with RENEW North Staffordshire.
Harmesh is responsible for managing the RENEW Forward Programme team.
Neil Lewin has over 20 years of experience in the residential, mixed use regeneration and commercial sectors and has led the architectural team on a number of large scale urban regeneration and residential projects across the North West. As part of this work Neil has acted as Director in charge co-ordinating the work of the consultant team in the production of Planning Applications and procuring the projects to completion on site.
James McMillan is Assistant Director of Development at Great Places Housing Group. He is a qualified Architect and Urban Designer who started his career working in large commercial practices in Manchester and Paris before joining Triangle Architects to specialise in social housing design. In the 1990’s James worked on the regeneration of the Hulme estate in Manchester which included an extensive programme of resident consultation.
Quote from previous participants...
Extremely interesting and very helpful”
“Excellent examples – enjoyable”
“Well run and well prepared"
In-house training
In-house training can be presented exclusively for your organisation on any subject in the planning and development field, including management skills. Training is individually tailored to meet the specific needs of your organisation .
To discuss your in-house requirements please contact Sarah Miller on 020 7960 5692 or e-mail sarah.miller@rtpiconferences.co.uk
CPD requirements
This event is intended to help RTPI members with their CPD requirements.
