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Urban Design Conference

Date 26 May 2011
Duration 1 Day
Price GBP 489 + VAT
Location London
Venue The Hatton (etc Venues)
Registration 9.00-9.30
Close of Seminar 4.30
Our code 36537
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Why you should attend this conference


Quality of place features more and more strongly in Government thinking and guidance. An increasing number of tools provide support in working to meet aspirations and expectations in this area. This one day conference will provide an introduction and update on recently produced tools, including the updated EP Urban Design Compendium and PPS3 and its supplementary guidance. It will cover urban design in the LDF context and practice in delivering urban design quality in a range of differing environments.

Benefits of attending


This conference will help you:

1. Develop or refresh your understanding of urban design principles

2. Explore particularly the relationship between sustainability and urban design

3. Review key current urban design challenges

4. Examine current practice at a range of scales

5. Receive an in-depth introduction to innovative practice close to the conference venue with an optional site visit following the conference

Who should attend?


  • Public and private sector planners
  • Urban designers
  • Landscape architects
  • Academics/consultants
  • Design champions
  • Community groups
  • All those involved in the development of tourism and leisure industries

Programme

Programme will be updated for 2011 and may include:

9.00 Registration and coffee

9.30 Welcome and introduction from the Chair

9.40 Design

  • Demonstrating its importance and value in the planning process
  • Interactive session
  • Capacity Check and Quality Reviewer

11.00 Coffee and networking

11.20 Creating successful masterplans: A new approach and methodology for developers and decision makers(SuBETool)

  • How to encourage high standards for the scope and content of sustainable urban design
  • SuBETool demonstrates clearly exactly what can be achieved in terms of the actual performance of the proposed development
  • Highlighting the many different factors that affect the expected performance of the development
  • Reducing CO2 emissions and enhancing the overall sustainability of the entire development

12.00 Negotiating design and urban design in day to day practice

12.40 Panel discussion

1.00 Lunch

2.00 Sorting the wood from the trees

  • Urban design decisions in development control
  • Can there be a route map for using Urban Design policies and guidance at the coalface?
  • Urban design decisions in market towns
  • Some recent tools – Design and Access statements and Design Review
  • Make life easier for development controllers and developers and help restore faith in planning

2.30 Planning for places: delivering good design through core strategies

  • CABE’s way of working with local authorities on their core strategy
  • Learning from the workshops
  • Key messages from the publication Planning for places

Kathy MacEwen, Head of Planning Advice, CABE and

3.00 Area Action Plans: Urban design and community engagement

3.30 Case study: Tower Hamlets – Embedding urban design for a spatial LDF

  • Thinking about space and urban structure as key LDF evidence
  • Forming a big idea based on an understanding of place at every scale
  • How to integrate the Community Strategy and Core Strategy
  • Progressing the placemaking agenda at a corporate level

4.00 Panel discussion

4.20 Chair’s conclusion

4.30 Close of conference

Quotes from previous participants


“Thoroughly informative and thought provoking discussion topics”

“Very good speakers, very relevant, informative and good use of examples”

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CPD requirements

This event is intended to help RTPI members with their CPD requirements.

In-house training

In-house training can be presented exclusively for your organisation on any subject in the planning and development field, inclusiding management skills. Training is individually tailored to meet the specific needs of your organisation.

To discuss your requirements please contact Sarah Miller on 020 7960 5692 or e-mail sarah.miller@rtpiconferences.co.uk

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