Best practice and placemaking initiatives are ‘how to do it’ manifestos, design strategies, design initiatives, design briefs, manuals and handbooks created by local authorities, Government bodies, professional bodies and campaigning and community groups. These offer information and advice outside of the regulatory system.For UK statutory design guidance, please visit RUDI's Design Guidance section. From January, 2007 onwards, RUDI's best practice and placemaking initiatives are available below. Free to access on RUDI: core urban design guidesThe Urban Design Compendium was published by English Partnerships in partnership with The Housing Corporation and examines the factors that make neighbourhoods stimulating and active places in which residents feel comfortable and safe. It aims to provide accessible advice to developers, funding agencies and partners on the achievement and assessment of the quality of urban design for the development and regeneration of urban areas. It is designed to provide a source of best practice to all those involved in the regeneration and development industries. The Compendium was produced by consultants Llewelyn-Davies, and is available free from English Partnerships |
Cascades: Improving certainty in the delivery of affordable housing for large-scale development?
This is a joint piece of work undertaken by English Partnerships, the Advisory Team for Large Applications (ATLAS) and the Housing Corporation, and led by English Parnerships' National Consultancy Unit. The research considered to what extend the use of mechanisms such as cascades, could assist in improving the delivery of Affordable Housing (AH) via planning obligations, particularly to achieve greater certainty, clarity and transparency. It focused on the use of cascades, defined as mechanisms incorporated into planning obligation agreements, setting out options for varying AH provision - quantity, tenure and mix. As many Local Planning Authorities (LPA) only resorted to the cascade approach for large complex schemes, the report focused on large-scale developments.
Planning for Biodiversity as climate changes - BRANCH project Final Report
BRANCH stands for Biodiversity Requires Adaptation in North West Europe under a Changing climate.
BRANCH evidence confirms that there is an urgent need for spatial planners to act now to ensure that wildlife can respond to the impacts of climate change. This report summarises the project’s research findings and recommends how current planning practices should be improved to incorporate adaptation to climate change.
Mobilising knowledge
This document is the output of an academic programme undertaken with considerable care and planning; provides Guidelines, Toolkit and Findings for solving the Interaction Gap between Older People, Planners, Experts and General Citizens within the Thames Gateway
Mind the skills gap
This report, Mind the Skills Gap assesses the gaps in the supply and demand of skills required to deliver sustainable communities. The study commissioned by the Academy for Sustainable Communities (ASC) and undertaken by Arup, builds on earlier work by Ernst and Young and York Consulting.
Homes for the future: more affordable, more sustainable
Three million new homes are needed by 2020, homes that reflect the diverse needs of all our communities. This Housing Green Paper outlines plans for delivering these homes.
Eco-towns and the next 60 years of Planning
The 1947 Town and Country Planning Act was one of the key pieces of post-war legislation designed to address issues concerned during the early to mid 20th century: health and welfare inequalities, employment, citizenship, environmental improvement and countryside conservation. Sixty years on from the 1947 Act the UK is a very different place. Its people are generally wealthier, better housed, better educated and healthier, and they have more leisure time. But the UK now faces a new set of pressures for change; most significantly a changing climate, an unparalleled demand for new homes, driven by demographic and population factors, and a crisis of affordability. In response to these challenges, a series of 'eco-towns' will be built, ‘intended to exploit the potential to create a complete new settlement to achieve zero carbon development and more sustainable living using the best new design and architecture’. The eco-towns will make best use of brownfield land, particularly surplus public sector land such as former Ministry of Defence or NHS sites; and they will draw on the good practice in urban extensions and new settlements identified in the TCPA’s recently published Best Practice in Urban Extensions and New Settlements review, supported by the Communities and Local Government department (CLG).
Code for Sustainable Homes - Technical guide
The Code for Sustainable Homes provides all-round measure of the sustainability of new homes, ensuring that sustainable homes deliver real improvements in key areas such as carbon dioxide emissions and water use.
Government Response to the Communities and Local Government Committee Report on Coastal Towns
This is the Government Response to the Communities and Local Government Committee Report on Coastal Towns (an important contribution to the issue of how these places could be best supported at a national, regional and local level). This response is being distributed to local, regional and national bodies, including coastal local authorities in England to help further understanding of what is being done across Government and through its agencies to help secure improved social, economic and environmental outcomes for coastal communities.
Report on carbon reductions in non-domestic buildings (by UK Green Building Council)
The report is a collaborative report written by members of the UK Green Building Council whose mission is to dramatically improve the sustainability of the built environment, by radically transforming the way it is planned, designed, constructed, maintained and operated.
