Baker Associates
Baker Associates is a distinctive and influential town planning practice. We believe the way places work, look and feel is critical to sustainable development, community regeneration and commercial success. The design and layout of buildings, streets, spaces and places can not only make our lives easier in practical terms, it can have profound effects on the physical and mental health and well-being of people and of the communities within which we live.
At Baker Associates urban design plays a central role in the planning and regeneration process. It helps us to understand more clearly, the potential impact of plans, policies and proposals on the built and natural environment, and how these can best be implemented.
Our approach to urban design is:
- grounded in reality and local context
- creative and aspirational
- a tool for implementing sustainable development and creating healthy communities
- collaborative - an integral part of town planning, regeneration and conservation work.
Baker Associates
Contact: Claire Mitcham
The Crescent Centre
Temple Back
Bristol
BS1 6EZ
t: 0117 933 8950
f: 0117 925 7714
w: http://www.bakerassocs.com
e: cmitcham@bakerassocs.com
Services Offered
Baker Associates provides a wide range of town planning related services, including development plans and their evidence base, sustainable development, regeneration frameworks, site promotion, applications and appeals, participation, and economic growth strategies as well as our urban design services.
We appreciate that urban design cannot be bought off the shelf. Whether you are a local authority seeking to raise the standards of design in your area, or whether you are seeking to promote a site for development, we aim to work with you to identify urban design solutions tailored to your needs.
Our wide range of urban design skills and services include:
- policy advice and documents including Supplementary Planning Documents (SPD)
- design guidance – strategic and site specific
- regeneration / urban design frameworks
- Urban Design appraisal (site based and wider townscape)
- scheme design and ‘masterplanning’
- Design and Access statements
- public realm strategies and guidelines
- design-led research on implementing principles of sustainable development and promoting healthy communities.
For further information and examples of our urban design and other work please visit our website at: www.bakerassocs.com.
