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Description
Will this planning proposal create a well-designed development? Every year that question is asked of hundreds of thousands of planning applications, ranging from household extensions to new settlements. Each development has the potential to help make a place that is more attractive, more pleasant to live in, more economically successful and a better use of resources.
The role of planners, councillors and others in assessing design is one of the few means of making sure that those opportunities are not lost to narrow interests or short-term expediency. But too often those who are in a position to raise standards suffer from a lack of time, resources or skills. Qualityreviewer provides them with a method of design appraisal that can be used for all types of development.
Qualityreviewer identifies 10 essential questions to ask in assessing design:
- What is special about the place?
- How should policy and guidance be applied?
- What is the design concept?
- How significant is the scheme’s impact likely to be?
- What are the design’s strengths and weaknesses?
- Does the design team have the right skills and approach?
- How can we ensure that the design will be well executed?
- Is the scheme likely to be well managed and maintained?
- Do we need more information and advice?
- Is the design good enough?
In explaining how to answer those questions, Qualityreviewer provides new skills for planners, councillors, regeneration professionals, students and anyone else who is committed to raising standards of design quality. Contents
Preface
Foreword
Planning for quality
How to use Qualityreviewer
Part A: Qualityreviewer
Understand the place
Understand the proposal
Understand the implementation
Make the decision
Qualityreviewer at a glance
Part B: Thinking about design and quality
Using diagrams
Six sets of design qualities
Part C: Quality reviewer in the planning process
Pre-application discussions
Effective design statements
Outline and full planning applications
Beyond assessment
Appendices
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