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Hotel go ahead in Bath after helpful design review | |
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A hotel scheme reviewed by SWDRP has won consent in one of the most challenging places in the South West for new build - the centre of Bath. The development will be a modern, four-star hotel with 177 bedrooms, a high quality business and conference facility, restaurant, bar and leisure facilities. The design by Scott Brownrigg was praised by the members of the Bath & North East Somerset Planning Committee, who commented on the ‘excellence of the design'. Earlier, the scheme had been ...
Read more... Published: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 |
Category: Design Topic: Design |
Expert reviews of proposed built environment schemes in the South West to continue | |
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The quality of design in the built environment in the South West has received a boost, following the announcement by The Design Council CABE that it will provide financial support for the continuation of the region's design review panel, which helps ensure proposed developments are of high quality. The South West design review panel at Creating Excellence will receive a grant for 2011-12 to enable it to continue running the system of local design reviews. For more details follow this link
Read more... Published: Thursday, May 12, 2011 |
Category: News From Creating Excellence Topic: Design |
Expert reviews of proposed built environment schemes in the South West to continue | |
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The quality of design in the built environment in the South West has received a boost, following the announcement by The Design Council CABE that it will provide financial support for the continuation of the region's design review panel, which helps ensure proposed developments are of high quality. The South West design review panel at Creating Excellence will receive a grant of £65,000 for 2011-12 to enable it to continue running the system of local design reviews, which complement CABE's ...
Read more... Published: Thursday, May 12, 2011 |
Category: Design Topic: Design |
Key Projects for the South West combine Good Design with Resilient Place-Making to stimulate Economic Growth | |
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At the recent conference held in April 2011 by the RTPI in Swindon, Head of Design South West, Mark Pearson took the opportunity to showcase some of the work of the design enabling service and demonstrate that the support has been instrumental in unlocking and securing greater benefits from some of the most important development projects in the South West. Early involvement in the Firepool site in Taunton helped the local authority and their Project Taunton team to establish a robust assessment method ...
Read more... Published: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 |
Category: Design Topic: Design |
Successful Qualityreviewer workshop held in Taunton | |
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Creating Excellence organised a successful workshop to provide practical guidance in how to use the Qualityreviewer (QR), the new method from the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) for assessing the quality of development proposals. The workshop was led by Rob Cowan, co-author of the book Qualityreviewer. Participants, drawn from local authorities, housing associations, planning and property consultants, undertook a table exercise working through a ‘live' project using the QR method ...
Read more... Published: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 |
Category: Design Topic: Design |
Bristol City Council seeks your votes | |
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Bristol City Council is preparing a major new planning document for central Bristol as part of the Bristol Development Framework. The council would like to hear your ideas for developments and other changes through which the central area could be improved. By submitting your ideas and by voting and commenting on ideas submitted by others, you'll help contribute to the planning process and to the design of a better central area for all. Bristol City Council seeks your votes for improving the ...
Read more... Published: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 |
Category: Design Topic: Design |
Helping Local People Choose Good Design | |
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96% of local planning officers say that there are benefits from including design review in the planning system. Of these, 67% say that access to specialist expertise was the main advantage. These findings are part of a new report, Helping local people choose good design, which marks the end of the first year of the design review network - a unique affiliation between CABE and the eight leading design review panels across England. The South West Design Review Panel run by Creating Excellence is part of ...
Read more... Published: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 |
Category: Design Topic: Design |
Awards for Community Involvement 2009 | |
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South West Planning Aid and the Royal Town Planning Institute South West have joined forces for a second year on a new awards scheme for community involvement. The ‘Awards for Community Involvement' have been established to celebrate and reward best practice in engaging and involving local communities in planning decisions - among the public, private and community sectors. Deadline for award entries: Friday 18 SeptemberThis year there are 3 award categories:Best practice community ...
Read more... Published: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 |
Category: News From Creating Excellence Topic: Design |
Search is on for accessible beach hut designers | |
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The artist's competition to design and build innovative new beach huts specifically for disabled beach users in Bournemouth, was launched on 27 April. Professional artists, architects and designers are being invited to submit bold and dramatic concepts to reinvent a row of beach huts specifically for disabled beach users. The new huts will form a key part of Boscombe Sea Change, a government funded scheme, which will deliver the UK's only purpose-designed accessible beach facilities ...
Read more... Published: Friday, May 01, 2009 |
Category: Design Topic: Design |
Design Review Encouraged During Recession | |
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Good design is critical to surviving the recession according to the South West Design Review Panel which is encouraging the property industry to take advantage of its free advice service. The design review process can help to add value, reduce cost, save time and seeks to ensure that projects are robust and sustainable propositions, thereby creating buildings and spaces that will increase in value rather than become ‘toxic' assets in the future. Including some of the region's leading ...
Read more... Published: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 |
Category: News From Creating Excellence Topic: Design |
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