Housing Completed vs Housing Need

Delivery is growing… but only gradually…

We need a continued focus on Delivery…

• Volume Housebuilders• PRS• Greenbelt• Student / Elderly• Modular• Brownfield• Strategic sites• Partnerships

MasterPlanning for Housing:Keeping it simple.

What do I do?

Settlement Expansion and New Towns

Architecture

Graphic Design

Landscape

Design in Barton Willmore

Masterplanning/Urban Design

Town Planning

1. Vision…

2. Protect and use what’s there….

3. Gateways, edges, and nodes…

Image courtesy of Story Homes

4. Don’t underestimate the importance of Streetscape (not roads) and Enclosure….

Image courtesy of CEC 21Century

Image courtesy of Story Homes

5. Stick to a simple palette of materials

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5. Stick to a simple palette of materials

Image courtesy of Alison Brooks Architects

6. Focus on the Urban Design

Image courtesy of Robertson Homes

Image courtesy of CEC 21Century

- Define Site and Access- Topography and Orientation Views- Connections: Pedestrian and Transport- Landscape and SUDS- Road Hierarchy and Block Structure- Character Areas- Density

House Types/MixFirst Detailed Pass

Evolution Final Version

Visuals

MasterPlanning

Final Version

THINKING LONG TERM: Housing Growth is not just for

Christmas…

Places change….

• Economic;• Lifestyle;• Local Politics; • Infrastructure; and• Planning.

Where are the new economies?

Where are the new communities?

Infrastructure

Housing Completions England

Council Housing… built since 1946

How can we deliver more homes…

Private House Builders

Housing Associations

Constructors

Masterplanning for Housing is about keeping things simple…

• Need to keep changing the culture around planning for housing.…. To create opportunities for great masterplans…

• If the public sector are ambitious on the quality of the masterplan they want to see… then they need to be similarly ambitious re: the land they allocate, the timescale and physical scale of those allocations and;

• Public sector need to keep driving these big strategic projects… that’s how we will get scale…