Housing Design Quality: Through Policy, Guidance, and ReviewThis book directly addresses the major planning debate of our time - the delivery and quality of new housing development. As pressure for new housing development in England increases, a widespread desire to improve the design of the resulting residential environments becomes evermore apparent with increasing condemnation of the standard products of the volume housebuilders. In recent years central government has come to accept the need to deliver higher quality living environments, and the important role of the planning system in helping to raise design standards. Housing Design Quality focuses on this role and in particular on how the various policy instruments available to public authorities can be used in a positive manner to deliver higher quality residential developments. |
Contents
Housing design quality and control the need for research | |
Residential design control a research gap | 3 |
Conclusions | 7 |
Essex County Council the new Essex guide | 8 |
Residential design control history and government guidance up to 1997 | 13 |
The historical context for controlling residential design | 14 |
Government guidance and advice on residential design in England March 1992 to February 1997 | 32 |
Conclusions | 44 |
Countrywide survey of residential design guidance | 203 |
design criteria and guidance hierarchy | 208 |
guidance types analytical basis prescription and regional emphasis | 220 |
Conclusions | 236 |
Manchester City Council Hulme the design code approach | 238 |
Innovation in the control of residential design | 242 |
The innovative case study authorities | 244 |
Wider practitioner discussion | 257 |
Suffolk County Council a new generation guide | 45 |
The design debate and a new framework for control | 49 |
A new framework for control | 64 |
Conclusions | 72 |
Cotswold District Council advocating a Cotswold style | 74 |
The speculative house product and process | 79 |
Perspectives on the speculative residential product | 80 |
The speculative residential process housebuilders and buyers | 92 |
Conclusions | 120 |
North Norfolk District Council guiding negotiation | 123 |
The fundamentals of controlling design | 127 |
Conclusions | 160 |
Dacorum Borough Council the character area approach | 162 |
Current practice and innovation in control | 168 |
Bridging the professional divide | 170 |
A new consensus | 172 |
Conclusions | 192 |
London Borough of Harrow achieving suburban distinctiveness | 195 |
Residential design policy and guidance a snapshot of practice in the 1990s | 200 |
Conclusions | 265 |
Wycombe District Council development briefing for housing | 267 |
The challenge for control | 272 |
An agenda for delivering housing quality | 274 |
Conclusions | 290 |
West Dorset District Council the footprint solution | 295 |
Towards a residential renaissance | 299 |
Places Streets and Movement | 300 |
Towards an Urban Renaissance | 301 |
Housing | 305 |
Beyond 2000 moving on | 308 |
Addendum | 314 |
Sedgemoor District Council negotiating quality | 315 |
Proposed reworking of PPG3 | 322 |
Housing good design in new residential development | 323 |
Bibliography | 327 |
Index | 341 |
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Housing Design Quality: Through Policy, Guidance and Review Matthew Carmona No preview available - 2017 |
Common terms and phrases
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References to this book
Public Places, Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design Matthew Carmona No preview available - 2003 |