“Shaping Places and the Environment” Training Programme

for North Northamptonshire April 2009 - September 2010

Revised January 2010

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Urban Design is the way buildings and open spaces, including streets, fit together and work together. Urban Design is the process of shaping the physical setting for life in cities, towns and villages. It is the art of making places. It involves the design of buildings, groups of buildings, spaces and landscapes, and culture coming together as a place making agenda. Lots of people talk about urban design, the way the planning system requires good urban design, the way highway schemes should be based on its principles and how it can help us lead healthier, more sustainable lifestyles. But does this matter to you? If you influence the built environment in any way, then you have a role to play in making sure it is well designed. If you can secure good urban design through your work you will be helping to create a good place people will value. You may find you feel pretty pleased and so you should – you would have achieved something worth while. Want to learn more? Have a look through this brochure and see how you can improve your urban design understanding and expertise.

H OW D O I B O O K ?

Please contact us, either by email, at:

info@nnjpu.org.uk

or by telephone on: 01536 274974

WH A T ’ S O N O F F E R ?

With support from CABE and the Arts Council we run foundation courses, workshops and site visits for local authority staff from multi-disciplinary backgrounds in the North Northamptonshire Area on a number of topics. We also facilitate a network of interested officers and Design Champions. This brochure lists all events we are running from April 2009 to September 2010. It explains the different types of events you can attend and includes

short descriptions of each one. We use a large team of expert practitioners and trainers so that each session is led by someone who really knows about the subject. We keep numbers down – a max of 36 people per session and we include discussions, group work and games or

Streets Set Foundation level sessions on transport, streets and public realm design issues

Planning Set

Foundation level sessions on planning,

housing and regeneration design issues

Workshops and site visits

for all

Design Set

Foundation levels on Urban Design,

This diagram helps to explain our programme. It shows how sessions are provided for everyone, offering more specif ic sessions and sessions where training topics tend to overlap. The headings are colour coded to help you choose.

E V E R W O N D E R E D W H A T U R B A N D E S I G N I S A B O U T ?

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WO R K S H O P S

WH A T A R E T H E Y ?

Highly practical sessions relating to today’s key design, cultural and sustainable design challenges. Each workshop will explain a design or cultural related skill, tool or policy requirement to help you deal with design and culture within your job.

WH O A R E T H E Y F O R ?

They have been designed with urban designers, culture and regeneration officers and built environment professionals who wish to expand their skills and refresh their knowledge.

The workshops have been categorised to allow choice to meet your requirements. However for those with no prior urban design training or experience you will get the most from the sessions if you already have attended the workshop Urban Design Fundamentals workshop.

For those officers who are responsible for influencing the planning process and development there is also a Planning set of workshops designed for the non-planner working in the planning environment .

WH I C H W O R K S H O P S S H O U L D Y O U

C H O O S E ?

Pick the workshops that you feel suit your needs best. To help you decide, here are some suggestions:

• If you are a streets officer or development control planner who is just starting out – how about learning how best to read plans and communicate and negotiate design issues? That’s workshops 2 and 3.

• If you are a senior development control or major projects planner – how about learning more about creating inclusive and resource efficient places? That’s workshops 6 and 8.

• If you are an urban designer who needs to take responsibility for your authority’s Building for Life assessments - how about attending workshop 15?

• If you are a cultural officer responsible for liasing with planning over major development but want to know more about the world or planning—that’s workshops 3 and 11.

HOW MUCH DO THEY COST?

Events are free to local authorities within the North

Northants area. If you are outside this area, the

events are £50 for a half day and £100 for a full

day.

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WO R K S H O P S E S S I O N S :

H OW T O R E A D & I N T E R P R E T P L A N S

Dates: 31st March 2010 8th December 2010 Time: 9.30–12.30 Location: NNDC Offices Trainer: TBC Plans, sections, artists’ impressions, axonometric, computer generated images etc. Any highway or development proposal may be accompanied by an assortment of graphical information. Some might be more ‘accurate’ than others, while some might be downright misleading. This workshop will look at the different types of information to be gleaned from graphics. It will cover issues like angles of vision, scale, verified details, viewing positions, and help you learn how to best use graphics to assess and describe schemes. The workshop will help you understand graphics, using scale rulers, tracing paper and grids. These are skills that can help you interpret design ideas when discussing or negotiating schemes with others. PLEASE CONTACT IF INTERESTED IN ATTENDING Suitable for: Regeneration Officers, Strategic Arts & Cultural Officers, or anyone who deals with planning

U N D E R S T A N D I N G M O V E M E N T — N C C

P L A C E A N D M O V E M E N T G U I D E

Dates: May 2010 Time: 9.30– 4.00 Location: NNDC Offices or NCC Facilitator: NCC and Transform Movement is a fundamental requirement for any urban area. The structure of our transport network, and the way we understand and manage accessibility, can have a huge influence on the way our city functions and performs. This is an issue that crosses the planning/transportation worlds because of the interrelationships between accessibility, travel, land uses, density and public realm use. The workshop will look at Manual for Streets guidance and how this has been translated to a Northamptonshire level, with the Northamptonshire County Council Place Making Guide and the Building for Life Process. Suitable for: Regeneration Officers, Development Control, Major Projects, Strategic Arts & Cultural Officers, Highways Engineers

U R B A N D E S I G N F U N D A M E N T A L S

Dates: 16 June 09 7 October 09 Time: 9.30–4.30 Location: NNDC Offices Trainer: Transform and Oxford Brookes Over the years, design has picked up its own language. Jargon and ‘trip off the tongue’ are often used without people really understanding what is being said. This workshop will demystify design terms and help give you the confidence to understand, describe and explain design issues in a clear and responsible way. This workshop invites participants to apply the approaches and ideas presented to them in the morning to a site within the NNJPU area. In small groups, participants will design a layout for the site at a scale of 1:500 using the wooden block models provided. This method allows designers and non-designers alike to work through the principles of place making in the context of a real site. Feedback from each group will follow and lead into a discussion on how better to embed the principles into everyday practice. Suitable for: Regeneration Officers, Development Control, Major Projects, Strategic Arts & Cultural Officers, Highways Engineers

C U L T U R E I N T H E P U B L I C R E A L M

Dates: 02 September 09 By invitation only Time: 2.00–4.30 Location: NNDC Facilitator: Tom Fleming Creative Consultancy and Ash Sakula Architects This workshop is a special consultation session led by Ash Sakula architects to explore how public spaces and places in North Northamptonshire can invite new opportunities and face the challenges of demographic and social change. Building on previous work undertaken in Northamptonshire, at this event the Tom Fleming Creative Consultancy will join together agendas in cultural planning across Northamptonshire, providing the evidence, identifying future opportunities and actions required for a coordinated and committed approach to position culture at the heart of planning and place shaping considerations.

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C U L T U R A L F U T U R E P R I O R I T E S F O R

N O R T H N O R T H A N T S

Dates: 03 September 09 Time: 1.00– 5.00pm Location: The Lighthouse Theatre, Kettering Trainer: Tom Fleming Creative Consultancy This event is to give you the opportunity to have your say on what the priorities should be for culture-led change across North Northamptonshire. Building on the earlier consultations carried out by Tom Fleming Creative Consultancy and partners as part of the development of the Cultural Investment Plan for North Northamptonshire (CIP), the project. If you are in involved in any aspect of cultural strategy, activity or service provision for Corby, Kettering, Wellingborough or East Northants we want to hear from you. We also want to explore how culture can be more closely linked with sport so if you have ideas on this we want to hear from you too. This event is open to everyone with an active interest in the role of culture for North Northamptonshire. This will include arts organisations, planners, educationalists, community/voluntary organisations, businesses and many more. This event is free but registration is essential. Please RSVP to cristina@tfconsultancy.co.uk

D E S I G N & I N C L U S I V E E N V I R O N M E N T S

Date: 19th November 2010 TBC Time: 9.30–4.30 Location: NNDC Trainer : TBC Good design should help create places that everyone can use with dignity, comfort and safety. We have strong access and inclusion policies and regulations but this workshop will ask ‘how can we really create inclusive places for all?’ This workshop will look at the roles of planners, cultural advisors and public realm specialists in creating inclusive environments and how we all have a part to play. Suitable for: Regeneration Officers, Development Control, Major Projects, Strategic Arts & Cultural Officers, Highways Engineers

P A S S I N G O N B U I L D I N G F O R L I F E

M E S S A G E

Dates: October 09 23rd April 2010 Time: 1.30–4.30 Location: NNDC Trainer: JPU/Kettering Building for Life is the housing industries adopted design standard. Developed by CABE, the Housing Association, English Partnerships (now HCA), House Builders Federation and the Civic Trust, Building for Life is now widely used to assess planning applications and is a required part of local authority Annual Monitoring Returns. This workshop will compliment CABE’s assessor accreditation system, allowing you to start the journey towards formal accreditation, or just bringing you up to speed on the scope and approach of this tool. Building for Life is based around 20 criteria, each of which will be explained during the workshop. You will also get a chance to assess a scheme using the tool. Suitable for: Regeneration Officers, Development Control, Major Projects, Strategic Arts & Cultural Officers, Highways Engineers, Senior Officers

D E S I G N & R E S O U R C E E F F I C I E N C Y

Dates: 22nd Sept 2010 Time: 1.30–4.30 Location: NNDC Trainer: TBC We could have called this design and climate change, or design and sustainability. But there are so many events around called that, we thought it was best to get to the nub of the matter for this particular session. So this workshop will look specifically at how development and public realm projects can first reduce demand for energy, water and other resources; and second meet demand in the most efficient way, examining options like renewable energy, local generation and combined heat and power. The workshop will also help you make sense of the numbers and standards around at the moment. It will explain key resource rules of thumb, showing the amounts of energy, water etc used and generated through or by different options Suitable for: Regeneration Officers, Development Con-trol, Major Projects, Strategic Arts & Cultural Officers, Highways Engineers

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WO R K S H O P S E S S I O N S :

D E S I G N C A R S A N D P E O P L E

Dates: 10 February 2010 Time: 10–1 Location: NNDC Trainer: TBC Cars are part of our lives and towns, but they are relatively inflexible objects that take up space when parked or driven. If we don't think carefully about them they can dominate neighbourhoods but if we don’t give them space there can be other implications. This workshop will look at design options for car parking based on English Partnerships’ publication on car parking ‘What Works Where’ written by David Birbeck. It will also look at design issues around shared space, controlling speeds, maintaining movement and balancing car use. Suitable for: Regeneration Officers, Development Control, Major Projects, Strategic Arts & Cultural Officers

PLANNING FOR NON-PLANNERS DAYS 1/2

Dates: 13th October 2010 Time: 1.30–4.30 Location: NNDC Trainer: TBC Planning for Non-Planners is aimed at those from non-planning backgrounds who interact with the planning system in their work. Participants from different disciplines come together to lean more about the main principles of planning. Day 1 - Introduction to Planning The first day looks at the role and responsibilities of the planning system. It explains what planning does and does not do. It combines a broad understanding of planning with an in-depth focus on case studies. Day 2— Planning in Practice This is an optional day, subject to interest, and will give the attendees the opportunity to see planning in practice and view some schemes in the local area. PLEASE CONTACT IF INTERESTED IN ATTENDING Suitable for: Regeneration Officers, Strategic Arts & Cultural Officers, or anyone who deals with planning applications or plans with a non-planning background

D E S I G N C O D E S — P O L I C Y & P R A C T I C E

Dates: 22nd December 2009 (NEW)

Time: 10.00–4.00 Location: NNDC Trainer: Transform With Design Codes in place, underway or proposed across North Northants, this seminar seeks to cover the basics of what Design Codes are and why and where are they useful. The seminar will address how can Design Codes can be prepared; what represents an efficient and effective design coding process; who is responsible; and the roles of all those involved in the stages of the process from preparation to implementation. It will also cover what you should expect to see in a Design Code and common problems or issues to be aware of together with providing an opportunity to share experiences across the area about how the implementation of Design Codes is going. Suitable for: Development Control, Policy, Regeneration Officers, Major Projects, Highways Officers, Strategic Arts & Cultural Officers

B R E E A M — A N I N T R O D U C T I O N

Dates: 11 August 2009 17 February 2010 Time: 9.30–12.30 Location: NNDC Trainer: The Code for Sustainable Homes, Ecohomes, Breeam …. How do the standards interrelate and how are they applied? The Breeam family of assessment methods and tools are all designed to help understand and mitigate the environmental impacts of the developments coming forward.

The half day workshop provides an introduction to BREEAM and its method of assessment and the various assessment schemes and the buildings to which they relate. Suitable for: Regeneration Officers, Development Control, Major Projects, Strategic Arts & Cultural Officers, Project Managers

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C O D E F O R S U S T A I N A B L E H O M E S — A N

I N T R O D U C T I O N

Dates: 14 September 2009 7th July 2010 Time: 9.30–12.30 Location: NNDC Trainer: TBC The Government is committed to protecting and enhancing the environment and tackling climate change and so with the objective of zero carbon homes by 2016, enter the Code for Sustainable Homes. Designed to provide a tool for ensuring all round sustainability in growth and guidance on construction of high performance homes, built with sustainability in mind. This half day workshop has been designed to provide delegates with an understanding of the scope of the Code, the assessment process and compliance methods and its principal requirements.

Suitable for: Regeneration Officers, Development Control, Major Projects, Strategic Arts & Cultural Officers, Project Managers

C U L T U R A L A N D S P O R T S P A T I A L

P L A N N I N G T O O L K I T

Dates: 20 October 2009 Time: 9.30– 4pm Location: NNDC Trainer: MKSM Culture Partnership An introduction to new National Guidelines on Culture

and Sport spatial planning, and the use of New Planning

Tool Developed to calculate Arts & Museums

Contributions from new developments

Over the last two years, work has been carried out by

sports and cultural agencies together the Town and

Country Planning Association resulting in the Culture and

Sport Planning Toolkit (CSPT) – recently published on

the Living Places website www.living-places.org.uk .

They have also researched and published appropriate

standard charges for arts, museums, libraries and

archives for use by local authorities in negotiations with

developers and others. The details of these standard

charges have now also been published on the Living

Places web site.

This seminar is aimed at both planning and regeneration

officers together with officers working in Culture and

Leisure. It is designed to give culture & leisure officers an

overview of current spatial planning issues, the planning

process in England and the importance of engaging with

regional and local spatial planning exercises. It will also

enable planners and regeneration officers to understand

how culture and sport is integral to creating sustainable

communities as part of growth in Northants. All

participants will learn about the new CSPT and other

resources available on the Living Places website. They

will also understand the basis and use of standard

charges for arts and mla’s and how they might be

implemented in negotiations, including their use and

limitations.

In conjunction with:

Suitable for: Regeneration Officers, Development Control, Major Projects, Strategic Arts & Cultural Officers, Project Managers, particularly those involved in negotiating planning applications

B U I L D I N G F O R L I F E — I S S U E S

I N T E R P R E T A T I O N A N D C O N S I S T E N C Y

Dates: November 2009 June 2010 Time: 9.30–12.30 Location: NNDC Trainer: CABE/Transform For Building for Life Assessors a chance to catch up with others, with follow up advice and support. Suitable for: Trained Building for Life Assessors

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WO R K S H O P S E S S I O N S :

B U I L D I N G I N C O N T E X T — D E S I G N A N D

T H E H I S T O R I C E N V I R O N M E N T

Dates: June 2010 Time: 9.30–4 Location: WBC Trainer: English Heritage The Building in Context TOOLKIT grew out of the publication 'Building in Context' published by EH and CABE in 2001. The purpose of the publication was to stimulate a high standard of design when development takes place in historically sensitive contexts. The founding principle is that all successful design solutions depend on allowing time for a thorough site analysis and character appraisal of context.

The Building in Context TOOLKIT aims to:

• to help local authorities plan for already developed areas in the most efficient way, while making them more attractive places in which to live and work and conserving our cultural heritage

• promote sustainable new and re-used development that doesn't sacrifice what future generations will value for the sake of short-term and often illusory gains

• to communicate to professional and community groups a wider understanding of how new interventions (such as new buildings, structures and spaces) can take place more successfully in historic areas

• to help those making decisions that affect sensitive

areas to reach effective and balanced decisions and a more efficient service

to help local communities with the process of taking long term decisions about their built environment in a confident and sustainable way. This training event will work through the toolkit, using local examples to test the toolkit. Suitable for: Regeneration Officers, Development Control, Conservation Officers, Major Projects, Project Managers

S E C U R E D B Y D E S I G N — D E S I G N I N G O U T

C R I M E

Dates: 26th May 2010 Time: 9.30–12.30 Location: NNDC Trainer: David Lancaster, Northants Police This training event will cover the principles of Secured by Design, it will include practical assessments of schemes from a designing out crime point of view and will have information about new research on the carbon cost of crime. It will also cover crime issues in developing large new housing areas and how these might be overcome. Suitable for: Development Control officers, project managers, Regeneration officers, Policy Officers, Major Projects, Strategic Arts and Cultural Officers.

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S I T E V I S I T C L U B :

W H A T A R E T H E Y ?

Informal visits to exemplar public realm, street and building schemes. Below is

the programme of informal, guided site visits with local and expert guides.

We will arrange for the project manager, architect, landscape officer or designer

to explain the schemes and show us around. These visits are a chance for you to

see new places, meet others interested in urban design and discuss recent

projects with peers.

No assessment sheets, no fees. Just book on and turn up!

WH E R E W O U L D Y O U L I K E T O G O ?

Please let us know of other schemes you would like to see, or

maybe ones you would like to host a visit to. We will do our best

to fit your choices into our itinerary for the second half of the year

D E T A I L S

Please be advised that all SVC events begin at 2pm, unless

otherwise advised. Arrival should be prior to the start time to

enable the SVC to begin on time.

C O M I N G S O O N

Accordia - Cambridge 7th April

Cambourne - South Cambridgeshire—

Further details to follow.

S 1 : 2 4 J U N E 0 9

Mawsley Village . A fascinating example of the

new settlement.

S 2 : 1 6 O C T O B E R 0 9

Corby Cube and Olympic Pool. A look at

public art in the swimming pool, with the artist.

S 3 : 2 6 A U G 0 9

Wolseley Sustainable Building Providing a

valuable insight into the latest sustainable

products and technologies which are available

today - from their system design and relevant

applications, to efficiencies and payback.

S 4 : T B C

The South Bank Walk. To look at the

revamped Royal Festival Hall, street art, lighting

and public spaces in Southwark. Finishing in a

local pub or restaurant.

S 5 : 1 7 S E P T 2 0 0 9

The Waendel Leisure Centre. To look at the

new leisure centre, an example of modern

architecture in Wellingborough.

S 6 : 1 0 T H M A R C H 2 0 1 0

Hampton, Peterborough. To look at new

urban extension, nearly completed will

provide context to the urban extensions in

Northamptonshire.

The programme is subject to availability

of guides and can therefore change –

please check our website or contact

info@nnjpu.org.uk for latest information

and timings.

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DATE SESSION TYPE DETAILS TIME LOCATION

JAN

13th Jan DESIGN PANEL East Midlands Design Review Panel 10am - 4pm Kettering Leisure Village

18th Jan DESIGN SURGERY Corby 10am CBC

20th Jan DESIGN SURGERY Kettering 10am KBC

25th Jan DESIGN SURGERY Wellingborough 2pm WBC

FEB

3rd Feb DESIGN SURGERY ENC 2pm ENC

4th Feb DESIGN SURGERY Corby 2pm CBC

10th Feb WORKSHOP Design for Cars and People 10am-1pm NNDC

15th Feb DESIGN SURGERY Kettering 2pm KBC

17th Feb WORKSHOP BREAM - An Introduction 9.30-12.30 NNDC

22nd Feb DESIGN SURGERY Wellingborough 2pm WBC

24th Feb MEETING Design officers group 10am NNDC

24th Feb DESIGN PANEL East Midlands Design Review Panel 10am-4pm TBC

TBC DESIGN SURGERY ENC 2pm ENC

MARCH

2-4th March EXHIBITION Ecobuild Earls Court

8th March DESIGN SURGERY Wellingborough 2pm WBC

10th March SITE VISIT Hampton, Peterborough TBC

16th, 17th & 18th CONFERENCE Place Shaping Workshop All day TBC

17th March DESIGN SURGERY Kettering 2pm KBC

24th March DESIGN SURGERY ENC 2pm ENC

29th March DESIGN SURGERY Corby 2pm CBC

31st March WORKSHOP How to read and interpret plans 10am-12.30 NNDC

APRIL

7th SITE VISIT Accordia and Cambourne ALL DAY

12th April DESIGN SURGERY Wellingborough 2pm WBC

14th April DESIGN SURGERY Corby 2pm CBC

14th April DESIGN PANEL East Midlands Design Review 10am-4pm TBC

21st April DESIGN SURGERY Kettering 2pm KBC

23rd April WORKSHOP Passing on Building for Life 9.30-12.30 NNDC

26th April MEETING Design officers group 2pm NNDC

28th April DESIGN SURGERY ENC 2pm ENC

MAY

5th May DESIGN SURGERY Wellingborough 2pm WBC

12th May DESIGN SURGERY Kettering 2pm KBC

19th May DESIGN SURGERY Corby 2pm CBC

26th May DESIGN SURGERY ENC 2pm ENC

26th May WORKSHOP Secured by design 10am-12.30pm NNDC

28th May DESIGN PANEL East Midlands Design Review Panel All day TBC

A thursday in May WORKSHOP Place and Movement Guide ALL DAY County?

31st May DESIGN SURGERY Wellingborough 2pm WBC

JUNE

7th June WORKSHOP Building in Context All day WBC

9th June DESIGN SURGERY Kettering 2pm KBC

16th June DESIGN SURGERY ENC 2pm ENC

22nd June DESIGN SURGERY Corby 2pm CBC

30th June MEETING BFL Assessors AMR workshop 10.30-1pm NNDC

30th June MEETING Design officers group 2pm NNDC

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JULY

5th July DESIGN SURGERY Kettering 2pm KBC

7th July DESIGN PANEL East Midlands Design Review Panel All day TBC

7th July WORKSHOP Code for Sustainable Homes NNDC

14th July DESIGN SURGERY ENC 2pm ENC

19th July DESIGN SURGERY Corby 2pm CBC

26th July DESIGN SURGERY Wellingborough 2pm WBC

28th July SITE VISIT South Bank Walk

AUGUST

TBC SITE VISIT Wellingborough heritage walk WBC

4th August DESIGN SURGERY Kettering 2pm KBC

10th August DESIGN SURGERY Corby 2pm CBC

16th August DESIGN SURGERY Wellingborough 2pm WBC

25th August DESIGN SURGERY ENC 2pm ENC

SEPTEMBER

1st Sept DESIGN SURGERY Kettering 2pm KBC

6th Sept DESIGN SURGERY Wellingborough 2pm WBC

8th Sept DESIGN PANEL East Midlands Design Review Panel TBC TBC

8th Sept MEETING Design officers group 2pm NNDC

13th Sept DESIGN SURGERY Corby 2pm CBC

22nd September WORKSHOP Design and Resource Efficiency NNDC

29th Sept DESIGN SURGERY ENC 2pm ENC

OCTOBER

6th October DESIGN SURGERY Kettering 2pm KBC

11th October DESIGN SURGERY Corby 2pm CBC

13th October WORKSHOP Planning for Non Planners am NNDC

18th October DESIGN SURGERY Wellingborough 2pm WBC

20th October DESIGN PANEL East Midlands Design Review Panel all day TBC

27th October DESIGN SURGERY ENC 2pm ENC

NOVEMBER

3rd November DESIGN SURGERY Kettering 2pm KBC

10th Nov DESIGN SURGERY Corby 2pm CBC

15th Nov DESIGN SURGERY Wellingborough 2pm WBC

19th Nov WORKSHOP Design and Inclusive Environments 10am NNDC

24th Nov MEETING Design officers group 10am NNDC

24th Nov DESIGN SURGERY ENC 2pm ENC

DECEMBER

1st Dec DESIGN SURGERY Kettering 2pm KBC

1st December DESIGN PANEL East Midlands Design Review Panel All day TBC

6th December DESIGN SURGERY Wellingborough 2pm WBC

8th December WORKSHOP How to read and interpret plans NNDC

15th Dec DESIGN SURGERY Corby 2pm CBC

22nd Dec DESIGN SURGERY ENC 2pm ENC

Unallocated: Urban design fundamentals, Design and Resource efficiency, BREAM follow up workshops

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