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Designing Southern Staffordshire
The Partnership recently organised a half day event at the Chasewater Innovation Centre to look at building design from the perspective of a developer, an architect, a local authority and young people. The aim of the event was to provide a better understanding of the constraints and pressures facing each sector involved in the industry, to explore how we can better support each other to ensure we maintained high design standards in the built environment in the downturn, and how we can maintain a commitment to continual improvement in building design.
Some 30 colleagues attended this event earlier this month which took speakers from developers Fresh Space Ltd, architects Brownhill Hayward and Brown, South Staffordshire District Council, and regional body MADE. Working with Southern Staffordshire Young Chamber programme we also involved 3 young people from Chasetown Sports College who were able to provide a fresh view from the user’s point of view of what was considered good design using their school and local buildings as examples. A further three seminars are being run through the summer and autumn focusing on sustainable building, improving design and investing in the public realm, and heritage as a modern asset.
Commenting, Andrew Hayward, partner in Brownhill Hayward and Brown, and a member of the Partnership’s Design steering group said “We are committed to continually raising the standards of design in the built environment and this Seminar together with our Awards programme will help to underpin this aim and make southern Staffordshire an attractive place in which to live, work and invest. Quality design is now widely recognised as a key part of economic regeneration. It has a crucial role to play in the image and profile of Southern Staffordshire, in maintaining and developing local distinctiveness and attracting investment and people. Despite the economic downturn it is important that we continue to focus on producing well designed buildings be they for housing, public use or private businesses. The quality of peoples work, leisure, home environment and general morale/well being can be greatly enhanced by the quality of design of the buildings they are in, and to sacrifice standards now could have long term detrimental consequences”
As part of the half day event delegates also had the opportunity to tour the Chasewater Innovation Centre, and to discuss what they saw to be the three most important actions necessary to further improve design in the built environment across southern Staffordshire.
Partnership Director Jeff Marlow added, “Against the backdrop of this economic downturn we want to ensure that the process for securing and delivering quality development is made as efficient as possible. Local District Councils are working through the Southern Staffordshire Partnership with representatives from the private sector to promote design quality in the built environment; to promote good practice; and to share knowledge on the latest innovation and thinking around building design”.
Designing Southern Staffordshire
The Partnership recently organised a half day event at the Chasewater Innovation Centre to look at building design from the perspective of a developer, an architect, a local authority and young people. The aim of the event was to provide a better understanding of the constraints and pressures facing each sector involved in the industry, to explore how we can better support each other to ensure we maintained high design standards in the built environment in the downturn, and how we can maintain a commitment to continual improvement in building design.
Some 30 colleagues attended this event earlier this month which took speakers from developers Fresh Space Ltd, architects Brownhill Hayward and Brown, South Staffordshire District Council, and regional body MADE. Working with Southern Staffordshire Young Chamber programme we also involved 3 young people from Chasetown Sports College who were able to provide a fresh view from the user’s point of view of what was considered good design using their school and local buildings as examples. A further three seminars are being run through the summer and autumn focusing on sustainable building, improving design and investing in the public realm, and heritage as a modern asset.
Commenting, Andrew Hayward, partner in Brownhill Hayward and Brown, and a member of the Partnership’s Design steering group said “We are committed to continually raising the standards of design in the built environment and this Seminar together with our Awards programme will help to underpin this aim and make southern Staffordshire an attractive place in which to live, work and invest. Quality design is now widely recognised as a key part of economic regeneration. It has a crucial role to play in the image and profile of Southern Staffordshire, in maintaining and developing local distinctiveness and attracting investment and people. Despite the economic downturn it is important that we continue to focus on producing well designed buildings be they for housing, public use or private businesses. The quality of peoples work, leisure, home environment and general morale/well being can be greatly enhanced by the quality of design of the buildings they are in, and to sacrifice standards now could have long term detrimental consequences”
As part of the half day event delegates also had the opportunity to tour the Chasewater Innovation Centre, and to discuss what they saw to be the three most important actions necessary to further improve design in the built environment across southern Staffordshire.
Partnership Director Jeff Marlow added, “Against the backdrop of this economic downturn we want to ensure that the process for securing and delivering quality development is made as efficient as possible. Local District Councils are working through the Southern Staffordshire Partnership with representatives from the private sector to promote design quality in the built environment; to promote good practice; and to share knowledge on the latest innovation and thinking around building design”.
Southern Staffordshire Partnership, District Council House, Frog Lane, Lichfield, Staffs, WS13 6YZ
Tel: 01543 308250 Fax: 01543 308200 E-mail: ssp@lichfielddc.gov.uk