Our legacy

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Presentation overview

• Our legacy
• Policy context
• The Building for Life Partnership
• Some examples the good, the bad and the ugly
• How Building for Life is being used

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Our legacy.
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The CABE housing audit

• 100 schemes in each audit
• By top 10 home builders
• In average price band
• Schemes of 20 dwellings
• Completed within last 3 years
• Mix of size and locations
• Post-occupancy survey

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The national picture
293 schemes completed between 2001-2006
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Making the case for good design
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What is good design?
Delight Does it look good?
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Best practice the policy framework
PPS 12Integrating sustainability appraisals
into the planning process
PPS 1Sustainable development as the core
principle underpinning planning
PPS 3 CSHHousing
Manual for StreetsCollaborating on design across
departments
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Best practice the policy framework
PPS 1 PPG 3 Code for Sustainable Homes Lifetime
Homes Secure by Design Safer Place Local
LDFs Local SPDs
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Enter Building for Life
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The Building for Life Partnership

• Led by
• CABE
• Home Builders Federation (HBF)
• In association with
• The Housing Corporation
• English Partnerships

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The 20 Criteria

• Environment and Community
• Character
• Streets, parking pedestrianisation
• Design and Construction

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The 20 Criteria

• Environment and Community
• Character
• Steets, parking pedestrianisation
• Design and Construction

• Use
• Amount
• Layout
• Scale
• Landscaping
• Appearance
• Access

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Environment Community

• Community facilities
• Appropriate accommodation mix
• Appropriate tenure mix
• Easy public transport access
• Reduced environmental impact

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Character

• Scheme-specific design
• Response to local setting
• Distinctive identity
• Easy orientation
• Coherent building layout

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Streets, Parking Pedestrianisation

• Priority of building layout over streets and car
  parking
• Well integrated car parking
• Pedestrian and cycle friendly streets
• Connection to existing roads and paths
• Eyes on the street for safety

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Design and Construction

• Well designed and managed public space
• Architectural quality
• Adaptation, conversion or extension
• Advances in construction and technology
• More than statutory minima

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Thinking it throughCharacter
Sense of place (but also cr. 12,13,16)
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Thinking it throughStreets, Parking
Pedestrianisation
Appropriate street design
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Thinking it throughStreets, Parking
Pedestrianisation
Overlooked public space (but also cr. 12)
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Thinking it throughDesign Construction
Well-designed public space (but also cr. 12,13)
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Thinking it throughDesign and construction
Architectural quality (but also cr. 13,15,16)
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Realising the vision
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Promoting best practiceThe Building for Life
awards
Gold
Silver
Silver
Great Bow Yard Langport, Somerset South West
Eco Homes Stride Treglown
Pepys Estate Deptford, London Hyde
Housing BPTW
Mealhouse Brow Stockport,Manchester Northern
Counties HA TADW
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Rostron Brow, Stockport
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Adelaide Wharf, Hackney
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City Point, Brighton
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Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth
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Royal Arsenal, Woolwich
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The Sinclair Building, Sheffield
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Points of engagement
Annual Monitoring Returns Housing
audits Standard Awards Design Review EP/HC Pre-app
lication assessment Internal client
review Brief Training
CONSTRUCTION
PLANNING
DESIGN
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Quality targets planning assessments

• English Partnerships 14/20 on all EP Land
• CLG Housing audit in the Thames Gateway
• 2010 50 good (14/20) or very good
  (16/20), nil poor (lt10/20)
• 2015 100 good or very good, nil poor
• Housing Corporation 12/20 for all grant
  supported housing
• (10/20 for rural/street fronted infill schemes)
• Planning authorities Core strategy, SPD,
  planning discussions, monitoring

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Assessment evidence guidance
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Accredited AssessorsWhat you would be doing

• Between 08/09 and 10/11 CABE is training at least
  500 BfL assessors
• at least one embedded assessor working in every
  LPA in England
• additional independent assessors working in a
  supporting role.
• Accredited assessors work will be governed by a
  code of conduct covering issues such as
  monitoring, remuneration and conflicts of
  interest.
• During the pre-planning stage, these Building for
  Life assessors will
• produce a full evaluation report and BfL score
  (x/20) for development proposals
• support other assessors as a moderator
• After completion, Building for Life assessors
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• feed in to assessments for annual monitoring
  returns indicator H6

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Accredited AssessorsWhat you would be doing

• Your work as an assessor will usually conclude
  with an evidenced evaluation report, which
  explains the score you have arrived at and lists
  the relevant evidence.
• This report might be referred to by
• planning officers or by the planning committee
• funders or landowners who have committed to a
  minimum standard
• researchers, panel and final judges for the
  Building for Life awards
• staff working on annual monitoring reports
• All evaluation reports, including the score, must
  be logged by the BfL partnership.
• CABE will carry out random spot checks of BfL
  evaluation reports for quality control
• at least 1 evaluation report per assessor per
  annum.

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Accredited AssessorsHomework for candidates!

• To gain accreditation, you should
• go to http//www.buildingforlife.org/assessors/too
  ls
• download the example Design and Access statement
  and the reporting template
• assume the role of BfL assessor working in the
  local planning authority and complete an
  assessment report for the scheme
• submit your report to enquiries_at_buildingforlife.or
  g by February 28
• The Building for Life team will
• check your assessment against the target score
• provide feedback on the way in which the score is
  evidenced
• quantify the variance across assessors for future
  monitoring
• send you a formal letter of accreditation and a
  code of conduct

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• Thank you
• enquiries_at_buildingforlife.org
• www.buildingforlife.org

Also supported by English Partnerships, the
Housing Corporation and The Civic Trust
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BfL in pre-planning and AMR
Formal BfL score as part of Committee Report
Formal AssessmentCABE Endorsed
Check pre-planning assessment against as built
AMR H6
Review by BfL Moderator (½ day max.)
LPA advice to developer on the information
required to provide BfL feedback ( List of
Drawings Design Statements etc. )
Review by BfL Assessor working in LPA (1 ½ day
max.)
Pre-planning submission
Informal assessmentNot CABE Endorsed
Planning application Planning approval
Project Completion
Construction
Feedback to applicant
Design iterations
Initial engagement between LPA and developer
Pre-planning discussion