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The DLA Neighbourhood Planning Team has been created to respond directly to the opportunities brought forward by the new National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).

We aim to help:

• Developers• Communities & Community Leaders• Local Authorities• Housing Associations

The role of the team is to ease the process of securing statutory approvals, by ensuring that the appropriate level of strategic planning, commercial and creative thinking is in place to underpin proposals early in the design process.By adding value in this way we aim to create a framework within which a truly exceptional project can be delivered.

DLA NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANNING

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LIVE / WORK OPPORTUNITIES

RESIDENTIAL“TERRACES”

SENIORLIVING

residential“villas”

residential“clusters”

green space

officedevelopment

residential“blocks”

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• The NPPF represents a successful streamlining of national planning policy.

• The presumption in favour of sustainable development, in conjunction with a plan-led approach is welcome and should help speed up the rate of approval.

• A lack of resource, capacity and expertise could undermine the ability of some local authorities and neighbourhoods to produce strong and coherent plans.

• A strong emphasis has been placed on the importance of good design.

• Local authorities should have design review arrangements in place.

• Neighbourhood planning – the new tier of the planning system – seeks to give communities more control over the future of their area.

NATIONAL PLANNING POLICY FRAMEWORK (NPPF)

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Localism provides a powerful opportunity to help change attitudes towards development through genuine, positive and inspiring engagement. Through new processes such as neighbourhoodplanning, we can highlight and actively demonstrate the positive benefits of new development and the power of good design in shaping better places and helping deliver a better quality of life.

A Neighbourhood Plan can establish general planning policies for the development and use of land in a defined neighbourhood area. The Plan might specify, for example, where new homes and offices should be built, and what they should look like. The Plan will set a vision for the future, and can be detailed or general, depending on what local people want.

Neighbourhood Development Orders will directly grant planning permission for certain specified kinds of developments within the neighbourhood area. Permission could be full or outline, could have conditions attached and could be site specific or grant more generalised development rights across the neighbourhood area. Where people have made clear that they want development of a particular type, it will be easier for that development to go ahead.

In areas with a parish or town council, that body will take the lead. In other areas, local people will need to decide which organisation should lead on coordinating the local debate (it must have at least 21 members and be open to new members). In all cases applications will need to be made to the local planning authority for approval to proceed.

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DLA NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANNING

Our primary objective is to add value to our client’s projects through early strategic commercial and creative input. This work develops Neighbourhood Plans and planning applications through:

• Public consultation

• Creative stakeholder workshops

• Urban design & development frameworks

• Urban regeneration strategies

• Design & Access statements

• Design Codes

• Detailed architectural proposals

• Landscape strategies

• Site capacity studies

• Visual impact assessments

• Supplementary Planning Documents

PURSTON PARK

girnhillhousingzones

verner street housing zones

school

allotments

orbital footpath / art trail

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CV’S

DLA Neighbourhood Planning draws on the professional resources of over eighty built environment professionals within DLA Design combined with the commercial acumen of Peter Colebrook, a professional property developer, with a strong history of PLC leadership and a flexible attitude to land use, delivering public benefit through commercially viable development.

These skills are further complimented by the public consultation skills of Robert Powell and his creative team of professionals at Beam.

John is responsible for ensuring the continuous delivery of high quality design solutions from the DLA Design practice and has led many large-scale, high profile projects over his 20 years with the company. He is currently RIBA Regional Chair for Yorkshire and a member of the RIBA Core Review Group for the Plan of Work.

John also teaches graduate diploma students at Leeds Metropolitan University and offers expertise in sustainability, Building Information Modelling (BIM)

and urban design.

Peter was the land director for Taylor Woodrow in the North of England before taking on the roles of managing director for Bryant Homes and Miller Homes, roles that have provided him with many years of experience in land acquisition and planning.

He maintains a “hands on” approach to the planning and development process and has produced in excess of 3000 housing plots on green field, brown field and inner city developments. This experience leaves him ideally suited to planning promotion and development management, with a strong emphasis on commercially focused development solutions.

PETER COLEBROOK B Tech (Hons)

Peter is a qualified engineer with a lifetime’s experience in planning and property development.

JOHN ORRELL BA (Hons) 3D Des

BA (Hons) Arch AA Dip RIBA

John is Design Director of the DLA Group of Companies.

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Overseeing projects from concept development through to successful completion Bob harnesses the collective strength of specialist design and technical teams within the office, he determines the optimum strategic pathway from initial briefing right through to delivering technically advanced solutions.

With a ‘hands on’ approach for over 25 years at DLA, Bob has substantial commercial knowledge and understanding of the marketplace.

Robert has over thirty years of broad and intensive professional involvement in the arts, regeneration, culture and the media in the United Kingdom and Canada.

Beam is a leading regional architecture, arts, and learning company delivering programmes in education, design training, community engagement and skills development, and the arts in the public realm. Roberts experience includes senior management, business planning and policy-making; development of major cultural and learning programmes and projects; exhibition, video, and print production; writing, editing and journalism.

BOB TAYLOR BA (Hons) Dip Arch RIBA

Bob is a Group Director at DLA playing a fundamental role in personally overseeing major projects.

ROBERT POWELL BA (Hons)

For fourteen years he has been Executive Director of Beam (formerly Public Arts).

He led Beam’s delivery of the Partnership Skills Programme, Yorkshire Forward’s innovative system of ‘town teams’, supporting citizens and councils in over 20 Yorkshire towns to guide the regeneration of their neighbourhoods. He’s a member of the Yorkshire regional and Barnsley Design Review panels. Robert is also a published poet and writer.

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INVOLVING THE COMMUNITY

Beam brings analysis, creativity and experience to stakeholder engagement in places where change is planned or underway.

We offer real involvement; helping to connect design and regeneration teams with the people they are designing for.

We use a range of proven tools and methodologies.

Community Involvement

Beam’s community engagement approach ranges from one-day to yearlong activities. We provide meaningful consultation and learning for individuals and groups, adults and young people, offering them a real voice in the future of their places.

Enabling the Design Review

Beam manages a panel of experts who review and comment upon plans for buildings and public spaces. A Design Review Service has been provided to Wakefield Council since 2007, and Beam is also involved in supporting the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Design Review Service.

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Creative Scoping & Facilitation

We work closely with project leaders, design teams, investors and key stakeholders to define a project in its early stages, exploring its potential and establishing a common set of principles and goals to inform the scheme’s successful delivery.

Spaceshaper

Spaceshaper is a tool developed by CABE Space to help stakeholder groups assess the quality of public spaces prior to investment in the site. Our staff are trained facilitators. Beam has led on the development of an innovative national toolkit Spaceshaper 9 to 14, working with CABE Space and Bristol and Kent Architecture Centres, to engage young people in the measurement of the quality of public spaces.

CONTACT US:

John orrell john.orrell@dla-design.co.uk

01924 858585

BoB TAYlor bob.taylor@dla-design.co.uk

01924 858585

FIND US AT:

www.dla-design.co.ukwww.beam.uk.net

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