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. |
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 |
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References to this book
Public Places, Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design Matthew Carmona No preview available - 2003 |