Under Pressure: Working with the form and setting of smaller settlements
This seminar-workshop explored how smaller settlements have evolved and the development pressure now being felt as the ‘call for sites’ process has changed the strategic context to spatial planning. The speakers and workshop looked at better ways of pro-actively planning for growth, considering a range of place-making and heritage criteria to determine suitable development sites, and how to create a sound evidence base to support this.
Programme
The historical significance of settlement forms, functions and settings – Dr Geoffrey Tyack, Kellogg College, University of Oxford
Planning for growth: small settlements today, the HELAA process and the market – Louise Thomas, HTVF
Shaping towns – strategic urban design in the local plan process – Roger Evans, Studio REAL
Using an historical evidence base for planning policy and development management – Charles Wagner, The Built Heritage Consultancy
Dorchester on Thames Neighbourhood Plan: a case study – Professor Malcolm Airs, Kellogg College, University of Oxford