Towards a Place Council for England Prof. Matthew Carmona The Bartlett School of Planning
Aug 21, 2015
Open Source Planning, Green Paper
‘“The quality of the built environment is crucial in creating liveable communities. We want to encourage the creation of buildings which are practical, sustainable, affordable and attractive, and also deliver social goals, for instance by ‘designing out’ crime. We must promote the highest standards of architecture and design. Not only is this a desirable end in itself, but it is an important factor in encouraging communities to support new development”
Evaluating the governance of design in the built environment
www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/planning/research/
CABE … not universally popular
“By the end CABE had pretty much alienated everyone which perhaps explained its demise”
1.Purpose ‘To promote, support and protect the quality and
experience of place in the public built environment’
Conducting research, advocacy and campaigning around key place-based issues, not least the value of design A national centre for excellence, maintaining an on-line Design Portal of practice guidance, case studies, design review services, etc.; and providing a central point for on-going debate and exchange Supporting design enabling through grant-making to suitably qualified organisations to conduct this service
The power to direct schemes to be design reviewed on the basis of representations (although explicitly not to conduct design review services itself) Statutory ‘open source’ consultee for design projects of exceptional national significance, either because of their prominence as projects or because of their role representing a particular set of design concerns.
The power to hold Public Design Inquiries, and to call key players to hold them to account over design issues, including Government departments, industry leaders, etc. An annual State of Place report, a rolling audit of design and place quality in different regions and/or markets Commissioning, coordinating or endorsing nationally important competitions, policy, guidance, standards and awards
5. Governance
• PLACES professions (incorporating surveying)
• Government representatives (the PLACE advisors)
• Local government • Design Network • The development industry • Neutral parties (media,
academia, amenity societies, civil society)