13 october caroline fraser bfl advisor-cabe presentation

Building for Life Assessor Network meeting Rotherham Caroline Fraser 13 October 2010

Introduction

  CABE support for local authorities and local communities to decide how their villages, towns and cities develop:

  Getting local and neighbourhood plans right

  Ensuring people get the quality they deserve through planning

  Helping communities to become great clients and owners of assets

BEST PRACTICE (CASE STUDIES)

REPORTING & FEEDBACK NETWORKS

& WEB RESOURCES

ENABLER ENGAGEMENT

TRAINING / CAPACITY BUILDING

GUIDANCE

ENABLING TEAM

Enabling clients to do the best they can

Building for Life work

–  Making BfL assessments available on website so assessors can view best practice worked examples

–  Gathering assessor and other user feedback to contribute to review of criteria guidance

–  Exploring methods of use as tool to engage with communities and discuss opportunities and expectations for future development

–  Exploring opportunities to train other partners, such as Planning Aid

Local level: working with community at Blackwall Reach to give them a say in the quality of schemes

  Council and HCA wanted independent support to involve community in design decisions for complex estate renewal project

  Aim: to embed principles of good design so community could be engaged in reviewing design quality of developers’ schemes

  CABE ran BfL workshop, site visits and training for community representatives

  Community reps will be helped to assess schemes using BfL

Sub-regional level: understanding rural needs Carlisle rural strategy

  Supporting very limited resources in council to understand where new housing could be built across 23 settlements

  CABE working with council to develop method for gathering local qualitative and anecdotal information to inform rural strategies

  Drawing in local intelligence from Parish Councils

  Exploring use of BfL as tool to engage communities where local sensitivities or resistance to development Parishes in Carlisle

Highgate, Durham Bryant Homes / RPS Architects

34 three and four bed three-storey town houses 26 two and three bed apartments for private sale

1.227ha, 49 dwellings per hectare

Unit size : from 73.7sq.m (two bed flat) to 192sq.m (five bed house); average 124sq.m

Cost per unit: ranges from £165k - £500k

Butts Green, Kingswood, Warrington EP & Bellway

BfL Award 2005

Creates a high quality green space at the heart of the scheme

A key space to share creates a strong sense of identity and community Clever positioning and massing of buildings shields development from adjacent M 62

Cala Domus, Harlow PCKO Architects

Adelaide Wharf, London First Base / Alford Hall Monaghan Morris

147 flats (73 market/ 74 affordable) 0.43 hectares. 342 dwellings per hectare

Unit size: from 44 sqm (one bed) – 140sqm (four bed)

Unit cost : from £250k to £395k

Park Central, Birmingham Crest Nicholson / Optima / Gardner Stewart Architects

1596 flats, 77 houses (market) / 78 flats, 147 houses (affordable) 12.25 ha, 155 dwellings per hectare

Unit Size: from 61.6sqm (two-bed) to 86.7sqm (three-bed)

Angell Town Estate, Brixton, London Lambeth Housing Burrell Fischer Foley / Greenhill Jenner / Anne Thorne Architects Unit Cost: from £152k (two-bed) to £265k (four-bed) 632 houses and flats (370 new and 262 refurbished) 9.3ha, 68 units per hectare Unit size: 52m2 (one-bed) to large 145m2(5-bed)

Great Bow Yard, Langport, Somerset Ecos Homes

Stride Treglown Architects 12 private homes (8 townhouses, 4 flats)

Two 4-bed houses, six 3-bed houses, two 2-bed flats, two 1-bed flats

0.34 hectare, 41 dwellings per hectare

Unit cost: £140k (1-bed). £155k (2-bed) £250k (3-bed) £290k (4-bed)

Gun Wharf, Devonport, Devon Devon and Cornwall HA / Midas Homes

Lacey and Hickey Architects 99 homes ( 35 market/ 64 Affordable)

2.3 hectares, 43 units per hectare

Unit Cost: £110k - £157k (Oct 2004)

Angel Waterside, London Pollard Thomas Edwards

Granville New Homes, London London Borough of Brent

Levitt Bernstein Architects

Accordia, Cambridge Countryside Properties

Maccreanor Lavington / Feilden Clegg Bradley / Alison Brookes Architects 166 flats and 212 houses

9.5 Ha, 40 units per hectare Unit size: from 50 sqm (1 bed apartment) to 360sqm (5 bed house)

Unit cost: from £200k to £1.1m

www.cabe.org.uk

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