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What’sonOffer?Sevenprogrammesoftrainingandsupporttohelpyoudeliverbetterplaces:

– HousingDesign

– StreetDesign

– GreenSpaceDesign

– PlanningandDesign

– DesignSurgeries

– DesignLeaders

- Networks

Programmesofferarangeofeventsforthosestartingtolearnabouturbandesigntoin-depthsessionsfocusingontrickydesignissues:

– FoundationCourses

– Workshops

– SiteVisits

– TrickyIssueSessions

CostsYearlyNetworkMembership:– £1,000plusVAT

CPDSessions:– £175plusVATperdayorpartday

– £600plusVATforafourdayfoundationcourse

Groupbookingsandyearlysubscriptionsavailableonrequest.

Rememberwedon’tmakeaprofit.Everythingyoupayisspentonthesessionsyouattend.

Whoisitfor?UDL was set up to provide training and networking support to London authorities and to date all 33 London boroughs, TfL, the LDA, HCA London, the GLA, RSLs and many other organisations have participated.

Although our primary audience is public sector practitioners, we are very happy to welcome others; you are advised to book early as places for non-subscribing organisations are limited.

GetInvolvedYou can book and pay for individual events, but most people get involved as UDL members and do not have to pay for individual events. You become a member if the organisation you work for pays our yearly subscription or provides a grant. You can also pay a yearly membership fee to join one of our networks, but these places are limited.

Please contact us for more details about subscription packages.

IstheTrainingJustforLondon?No, many of our courses could be useful for anyone working in the built environment sector. Talk to us about running one of our sessions in your area.

DesignSupportforLondonDesign for London and UDL work together to provide a full package of design support for London. This brochure sets out the training and networking opportunities available within that wider package. Refer to Design for London’s website (www.designforlondon.gov.uk) for information on their other work including design advice and project support.

WhyisOurTrainingSpecial?As we are supported by the Mayor of London and CABE we can keep the fees we charge low and use all of the money we receive to provide the best courses and support we can. Our close working relationship with organisations like Design for London and Transport for London mean we can use the most up to date examples, policy and research, and pull in some excellent people to speak at our events.

We take great care to listen to our users’ feedback and amend sessions when needed. We spend time trying to understand the design skills and competences needed by different practitioners, at different stages in their careers. All our sessions have been developed to help you learn what you need for your job.

WhoareUDL?We are a non profit making training and networking group that is supported by the Mayor of London, London Councils, the HCA and CABE. We have been running urban design related CPD training for built environment practitioners in London since 2006. During that time we have provided almost 200 separate sessions and taken almost 5,000 individual bookings. Our programme has been held up as an exemplary example of built environment education by CABE, the HCA Academy, and we are glad to say, our users.

Information in this brochure is provisional and we may occasionally have to alter some event details. Please see our website for the most up to date information.

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2010 20 Apr 21 Apr 29 Apr 30 Apr 04 May 05 May 06 May 06 May 07 May 07 May 12 May 10 May 11 May 14 May 17 May 17 May 21 May 21 May 25 May 27 May 28 May 01 Jun 08 Jun 15 Jun 15 Jun 16 Jun 17 Jun 18 Jun 18 Jun 22 Jun 25 Jun 01 Jul 01 Jul 09 Jul 20 Jul 10 Sep 10 Sep 14 Sep 14 Sep 15 Sep 16 Sep 27 Sep 30 Sep 20 Sep 22 Sep 24 Sep 28 Sep 30 Sep Continues Overleaf

Session Site Visit to Angel Waterside Design Surgery Workshop – Understanding Development Economics Day 1: All – Introduction to Urban Design Day 2: Housing – Theory, Policy, Funding and Processes Day 3: Housing – Design: Context and Options Day 2: Streets – Better Streets Design Principles Day 2: Planning – Design, Policy and Planning Process Day 3: Streets – Better Streets: Scheme Levels Day 3: Planning - Planning Decisions and Design at Appeal Day 4: All – Big Design Day Workshop – Designing for Sustainability Site Visit to Quaggy River Workshop – TfL’s Streetscape Guidance: Advanced Workshop – Reading and Understanding Plans and Graphics Workshop – Communicating and Negotiating Design Issues Planning Network Meeting Tricky Issue Session on Policy Creation and Characterisation Studies Workshop – Assessing Streets Design Surgery Workshop – Community Consultation and Engagement Post Election Update Site Visit to Barking Town Centre Streets Network Meeting Tricky Issue Session on Paving Materials, Kerbs and Construction Techniques Workshop – Understanding Movement and Urban Structures Workshop – Preparing LDFs Workshop – The London Green Grid Workshop – Valuing Green Infrastructure Toolkit Workshop – London’s Housing Design Requirements – An Overview Design Surgery Housing Network Meeting Tricky Issue Session on Designing Shared Facilities Tricky Issue Session on Optimising Green Space Design Surgery Streets Network Meeting Tricky Issue Session on Shared and Level Surfaces Planning Network Meeting Tricky Issue Session on Infill Schemes Site Visit to Granville New Homes Design Surgery Tricky Issue Session on Productive Landscapes Workshop – How to Use Green Space Strategies Day 1: All – Introduction to Urban Design Day 2: Housing – Theory, Policy, Funding and Processes Day 2: Planning – Design, Policy and Planning Process Day 3: Housing – Design: Context and Options Day 3: Planning - Planning Decisions and Design at Appeal

Full 2010/11 Programme Timetable

All programme and event information maybe subject to change – our website contains the most up-to-date information.

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2010 04 Oct 04 Oct 05 Oct 05 Oct 08 Oct 06 Oct 07 Oct 12 Oct 12 Oct 13 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 22 Oct 03 Nov 05 Nov 09 Nov 11 Nov 16 Nov 30 Nov 01 Dec 02 Dec 03 Dec 07 Dec 07 Dec

2011 11 Jan 11 Jan 12 Jan 12 Jan 25 Jan 25 Jan 28 Jan 01 Feb 01 Feb 02 Feb 02 Feb 07 Feb 08 Feb 09 Feb 03 Feb 15 Feb 15 Feb 03 Mar 08 Mar 08 Mar 30 Mar 30 Mar

Session Day 2: Green Space – Well Designed Green Space Day 2: Streets – Better Streets Design Principles Day 3: Green Space – Delivering Better Green Spaces Day 3: Streets – Better Streets: Scheme Levels Day 4: All – Big Design Day Workshop – Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Site Visit to Covent Garden Legible London PilotHousing Network Meeting Tricky Issue Session on Resource Efficient Housing Design Surgery Workshop – Residential Streets, Crime, Parking and Refuse Workshop – Mayor’s Great Spaces Workshop – Creating Inclusive Spaces Design Surgery Site Visit to Brixton Town Centre Workshop – Building for Life: Introduction Design Leader’s Event Workshop – Procuring and Managing Projects Tricky Issue Session on Using Signage, Furniture and Trees Workshop – Respecting Historic Environments Workshop – Project Showcase Design Surgery Streets Network Meeting Tricky Issue Session on Traffic Lights

Workshop – Space Standards and Inclusive Design Design Surgery Planning Network Meeting Tricky Issue Session on Masterplanning Tricky Issue Session on Designing for Mixed Tenures Housing Network Meeting Day 1: All – Introduction to Urban Design Day 2: Streets – Better Streets Design Principles Day 2: Housing – Theory, Policy, Funding and Processes Day 3: Streets – Better Streets: Scheme Levels Day 3: Housing – Design: Context and Options Day 2: Green Space – Well Designed Green Space Day 3: Green Space – Delivering Better Green Spaces Day 4: All – Big Design Day Workshop – Manual for Streets 2 Design Surgery Highlights Event – UDL’s Highest Scoring Presentations Design Leader’s Dinner Tricky Issue Session on Street Furniture, Signs and Lighting Streets Network Meeting Tricky Issue Session on River Restoration Projects Site Visit to New River Walk

Full 2010/11 Programme Timetable continued

Housing Design Programme

2010/11 This programme aims to help anyone working on or influencing housing schemes.

It is delivered with the support of HCA London, Design for London and CABE. We thank them for their help and guidance.

The Foundation Course This four day course is ideal for housing practitioners who wish to refresh their design expertise or who are starting out in the process of understanding urban design and designing schemes.

Day 1 Introduction to Urban Design 30 Apr 20 Sep 28 Jan 2011 This day is shared across UDL’s four foundation courses so alongside your professional housing peers, you will get a chance to meet and work with planners, street specialists and green space practitioners.

Day 1 will cover the basics of urban design, including design principles, how places are structured, how movement networks function and their relation to land use, density and the character of places.

It will explain the qualities of successful places and the physical elements that help create them. Key design policies and guidance such as By Design, Streetscape Guidance, the Manual for Streets, the Mayor’s Design Standards and Building for Life and the roles of different professions and agencies will be introduced.

Day 2 Theory, Policy, Funding and Processes 04 May 22 Sep 1 Feb 2011 The session will cover land use and appropriate trade-offs between a developer’s imperative to exploit a site with what residents like. It will discuss the psychology of housing, the relationship between the home and the street, plus the role of management and which housing forms require more intense management and why.

The afternoon will look at and explain how key policies and tools that drive housing design fit together, such as the Mayor’s Design Guide and Code for Sustainable Homes. You will learn about the systems and agencies involved and consider the relevant design, planning, funding processes and economics of housing development.

Day 3 Housing Design: Context and Options 05 May 28 Sep 02 Feb 2011 The morning session will look at different housing layouts and types, their pros and cons and relevance for different places and users. Common housing forms have very different arrangements for accessing individual homes, parking and private amenity space so the session will cover the pros and cons of each. It will also look at the importance of context, layout, density, accessibility, durability, adaptability, manageability, maintainability and lifetime performance.

In the afternoon you will consider basic design options for residential open space and play space, waste management, mixing tenures and uses, water management, energy provision and performance. There will be a short session covering all the key approaches to lowering the carbon footprint of new homes.

The day will include a visit to a highly relevant housing development and will finish by introducing design assessment techniques.

Day 4 Big Design Day 12 May 08 Oct 09 Feb 2011 Like the Introduction Day, this session will be shared between planning, housing specialists, green space and streets practitioners. Teams will consider an area, looking at understanding its context, to first set scheme objectives and then develop design ideas combining changes to the street, buildings and open spaces holistically.

Architects call these events charrettes. They squeeze the design process from concept to a drawn proposal into a day to help people learn about the balances, compromises, co-operation and imagination that can help create better places.

Housing Design Network Events Our network brings together senior local authority officers, councillors, Mayor’s family staff, RSL staff, architects, consultants and house builders and consultants. We generally offer three types of network events: meetings, tricky issue sessions and site visits.

Meetings 01 Jul 12 Oct 25 Jan 2011 These are a good way to keep up to date with research, publications, policy and funding programmes with regular presentations from the GLA family, CABE and others.

Tricky Issue Sessions 01 Jul Designing Shared Facilities 12 Oct Resource Efficient Housing 25 Jan 2011 Designing for Mixed

Tenures These seminars discuss the nitty gritty of specific design issues that might be causing controversy or confusion. Renowned design or practice experts will be invited to tell us about views and favourite solutions, but the sessions are mainly a chance for network members to bring along schemes, questions or problems to discuss with others.

Site Visits 20 Apr Angel Waterside 08 Jun Tanner Street Housing 15 Sep Granville New Homes Sometimes we can learn more from visiting and looking at a scheme than any number of seminars and talks. So we are offering three guided visits to exemplar housing schemes over the year.

Building for Life Assessors Network In partnership with CABE we are running a number of events to support existing and new Building for Life assessors. These include formal training days which can lead into acceptance as an official assessor, and network meetings to support those already carrying out assessments. These sessions will be by invitation only so please contact UDL for more information.

What’s on

Workshops Each of these sessions will help you understand and use an important tool or teach you a useful skill. The most popular ones will be repeated later in the year, so look out for additional dates on our website.

Four workshops form part of a special set on London’s emerging design requirements, the other six relate to other tools or skills that can help us deliver better quality homes.

Understanding Development Economics 29 Apr This session will focus on understanding the language and the financial principles which drive the development industry; looking at how authorities can encourage new investment and what financial models maybe available to help deliver development and regeneration in difficult times. It will explain why some schemes are profitable and some not and help you understand what makes developers tick.

Reading and Understanding Plans and Graphics 17 May Any scheme may be illustrated by an assortment of graphical information such as plans, sections, artists’ impressions, axonometric, computer generated images etc. Some might be more ‘accurate’ than others, while some might be downright misleading. This workshop will help you learn how to best use graphics to assess and describe schemes.

Communicating and Negotiating Design Issues 17 May Over the years, design has picked up its own language. Jargon and ‘trip off the tongue’ phrases are often used without people really understanding what is being said. This workshop will demystify design terms and help give you the confidence to understand, describe and explain design issues in a clear and responsible way. It will also introduce you to basic negotiation theory and best practice.

Creating Inclusive Spaces 22 Oct Streets and other open spaces are our communal living space. They should be welcoming and easy to use, regardless of our physical abilities, race, age etc. This workshop will explain the principles behind inclusive design, showing how it encompasses and supports creating places that cater for the needs of all groups of people. It will focus on inclusive design in relation to both streets and green spaces.

Building for Life – An Introduction 09 Nov Building for Life is the design standard adopted by the housing industry for well-designed homes and neighbourhoods. Delivered in partnership with CABE, this session will explain this important design

assessment tool, it’s 20 criteria, how it can be used and provide the opportunity to assess a real scheme.

Respecting Historic Environments 01 Dec Based on material developed by English Heritage, and the successful EH/CABE guide Building in Context, this session will look at how we should consider and respond to the local context for any development, and how different design solutions can complement and respect local character.

London’s Housing DesignRequirements (LHDR) These new workshops will help you keep up to date on design standards and policies, and use them successfully within your work. The first session will provide an overview and the next three will cover specific topics in more detail.

Anyone who wants to be clear about what the standards and policies say, and how they should be used, will find session 1 useful. Those who need to use design standards, policy and guidance on a day to day basis should find all four sessions useful.

LHDR 1 – An Overview 22 Jun This session will explain what the Mayor’s organisations and HCA London are looking for in terms of housing design. It will run through the latest position on standards, guidance, emerging London Plan policies and SPD and explain how the different documents and processes should work. The session will also provide a general overview of the issues covered from space standards to waste storage requirements.

LHDR 2 – Climate Change: Mitigation and Adaptation 6 Oct This session will explain performance levels required in housing schemes as set out by the Mayor, HCA London and nationally through the Code for Sustainable Homes. It will look at design options for different types of housing development to help ensure schemes are efficient and responsible.

LHDR 3 – Residential Streets, Crime, Parking and Refuse 18 Oct This workshop will look at relationships between quality of streets and housing, crime and safety and the work streets have to do. Focusing on the Mayor’s requirements alongside the Manual for Streets and Secured by Design it will suggest an integrated approach to considering design options for residential streets.

LHDR 4 – Space Standards and Inclusive Design 11 Jan This session will focus on how design specifications can ensure liveable, safe, comfortable, convenient and respectful homes for all. It will look at specific design requirements set by the Mayor and HCA London such as minimum space standards alongside Lifetime Home requirements and the Mayor’s inclusive design policies.

2010 20 Apr 29 Apr 30 Apr 04 May 05 May 12 May 17 May 17 May 08 Jun 14 Jun 22 Jun 29 Jun 01 Jul 01 Jul 15 Sep 20 Sep 22 Sep 28 Sep 08 Oct 06 Oct 12 Oct 12 Oct 18 Oct 22 Oct 02 Nov 09 Nov 01 Dec

2011 11 Jan 25 Jan 25 Jan 28 Jan 01 Feb 02 Feb 09 Feb

Session Angel Waterside Site Visit Understanding Development Economics Day 1: All – Introduction to Urban Design Day 2: Theory, Policy, Funding and Processes Day 3: Context and Options Day 4: All – Big Design Day Reading and Understanding Plans and Graphics Communicating and Negotiating Design Issues Barking Town Centre Site Visit Building for Life Assessors Update – Invitation Only London’s Housing Design Requirements – An Overview Building for Life Assessors Training – Invitation Only Housing Network Meeting Designing Shared Facilities Tricky Issue Granville New Homes Site Visit Day 1: All – Introduction to Urban Design Day 2: Theory, Policy, Funding and Processes Day 3: Context and Options Day 4: All – Big Design Day Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Housing Network Meeting Tricky Issue Session on Resource Efficient Housing Residential Streets, Crime, Parking and Refuse Creating Inclusive Spaces Building for Life Assessors Update – Invitation Only Building for Life Introduction Respecting Historic Environments

Space Standards and Inclusive Design Designing for Mixed Tenures Housing Network Meeting Day 1: All – Introduction to Urban Design Day 2: Theory, Policy, Funding and Processes Day 3: Context and Options Day 4: All – Big Design Day

Housing Design Timetable 2010/11

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Design Surgeries Provisional Dates 21 Apr 27 May 25 Jun 20 Jul 16 Sep 13 Oct 03 Nov 03 Dec 11 Jan 2011 15 Feb 2011 We are running a series of design surgeries to examine housing proposals throughout the year in partnership with NLSA, HCA London, Design for London and TfL. These involve a panel of design experts considering and discussing proposals to support those working on the schemes. Comments are not recorded in a formal letter and those bringing schemes to surgeries can decide to use the advice they hear or not.

If you would like to observe a surgery, or bring schemes for review please contact us.

For Bookings and Enquiries www.urbandesignlondon.com [email protected] 020 7593 8379

2010/11 This programme aims to help anyone designing, working on or influencing street schemes.

The training, network and surgeries are delivered with the support of Transport for London, Design for London and CABE. We thank them for their help and guidance.

Street Design Programme

The Foundation Course This four day course is ideal for practitioners who wish to refresh their design expertise or who are starting out in the process of designing streets.

Day 1 Introduction to Urban Design 30 Apr 20 Sep 28 Jan 2011 This day is shared across UDL’s four foundation courses so alongside your professional peers, you will get a chance to meet and work with planners, housing specialists and green space practitioners.


It will explain the qualities of successful places and the physical elements that help create them. Key design policies and guidance such as By Design, Streetscape Guidance and Better Streets and the roles of different professions and agencies will be introduced.

Day 2 Better Streets Design Principles 06 May 04 Oct 01 Feb 2011 The day will look at why good streets matter and their benefits. It will explain the design principles in the Mayor’s document Better Streets and look at the importance of understanding the context for any scheme.

The day will help unravel the legal framework behind streets, risk, liability and safety issues, and will explain what policy and guidance documents like LTNs, DMRB, Streetscape Guidance, etc actually require.

It will also explain the theory behind deciding on the balance of place/movement status for any street and how this can help you commission and manage projects.

Day 3 Better Streets: Scheme Levels 07 May 05 Oct 02 Feb 2011 This day will work though the five stages of interventions set out in the Mayor’s Better Streets document.

The morning will look at how to implement the first three levels of intervention, that is to do a tidy up, declutter and/or rationalisation of street furniture. The session will look at how common questions around regulations, risk, streetscape guidance and perceived best practice could influence your work.

In the afternoon the session will examine levels four and five of Better Streets, re-thinking traffic management options or recreating the space. The session will help you consider when such types of project are justified, good design solutions and how to get them going and deliver them.

Brief writing, objective setting, consultation and assessing proposals will all be touched on. The session will also look at how safety and quality audits and design review can support such schemes.


Architects call these events charrettes. They squeeze the design process from concept to a drawn proposal into a day to help people learn about the balances, compromises, co-operation and imagination that can help create Better Streets and places.

Street Design Network Events Our network brings together senior local authority engineers and highway officers, councillors, TfL staff, transport planners and consultants. We generally offer three types of network events: meetings, tricky issue sessions and site visits.

Meetings 15 Jun 10 Sep 07 Dec 08 Mar 2011 These are a good way to keep up to date with research, publications, policy and funding programmes with regular presentations from the GLA family, CABE, DfT and others.

Tricky Issue Sessions 15 Jun Paving Materials, Kerbs

and Construction Techniques

10 Sep Shared and Level Surfaces 07 Dec Traffic Lights 08 Mar 2011 Street Furniture, Signs

and Lighting Here we discuss the nitty gritty of specific design issues that might be causing controversy or confusion. Renowned design or practice experts will be invited to tell us about views and favourite solutions, but the sessions are mainly a chance for network members to bring along schemes, questions or problems to discuss with others.

Site Visits 08 Jun Barking Town Centre 07 Oct Covent Garden Legible

London Pilot 05 Nov Brixton Town Centre

improvement scheme Sometimes we can learn more from visiting and looking at a scheme than any number of seminars and talks. So we are offering guided visits to street improvements over the year.

What’s on


TfL’s Streetscape Guidance: Advanced 14 May Transport for London has an established Streetscape Guidance document which it updates regularly. The guidance informs and steers TfL controlled road schemes in London, but can also be used to support schemes on borough-controlled roads or to inform borough streetscape guidance documents. The workshop will provide those who already have an understanding of the guidance with more in-depth examination of streetscape issues and how to consider exceptions from suggested materials and layouts. This workshop is a must if you are working on schemes on the TLRN or that can attract TfL funding.



Assessing Streets 25 May This workshop will introduce you to two complementary methods of assessing existing streets, PERS and the Community Street Audit. PERS is an analytical tool to formally grade the quality of any street. It uses a set list of criteria and questions and ensures streets can be assessed and graded consistently. The Community Street Audit provides a consultative framework to understand how local street users feel about the place and what changes/improvements they would most value.

Understanding Movement and Urban Structures 16 Jun Movement is a fundamental requirement for any urban area. The structure of our transport network, and the way we understand and manage accessibility, affects how places work. This workshop will examine some of the key tools we use to measure, understand and manage accessibility; by the end of the workshop you will have a good idea of how these tools can complement each other and inform our planning and transport management systems.

Residential Streets, Crime, Parking and Refuse 18 Oct This workshop, developed to deal with difficult, but integrated design issues in residential streets, will encompass the general relationship between quality of streets and housing and crime and safety. Developed with advice from the Metropolitan Police this session will also discuss the Mayor’s Housing Design Guidance, the thinking behind Manual for Streets and how Secured by Design should best be used, the opportunities it brings and its limitations; looking at the appropriate application of stopping distances, visibility requirements and traffic calming alternatives, it will address how the function of residential streets can be improved.

Mayor’s Great Spaces 19 Oct The Great Space exemplars, in partnership with Design for London, showcase the best of the Mayor’s Great Spaces. It will examine the design processes, negotiations and consultations behind each scheme with Design for London and boroughs, as well as discussing the lessons learnt and the economic value of regenerating these spaces.

Procuring and Managing Projects 16 Nov This workshop has been developed to take a step-by-step approach to understanding the process of procuring design projects, from brief writing to agreeing tenders, planning a work programme and managing risk. It will explain key management skills, how to manage difficult issues and keeping a programme on time and in budget.


Manual for Streets 2 03 Feb 2011 In partnership with CABE, this workshop looks at the thinking behind the updated MfS, with a hands-on exploration of the appropriate application of its principles. It will address how the function of residential streets can be improved and how this relates to delegates’ jobs – linking to local priorities and processes and will involve an exercise to apply the principles to a real scheme.

Design Surgeries Provisional Dates 21 Apr 27 May 25 Jun 20 Jul 16 Sep 13 Oct 03 Nov 03 Dec 11 Jan 2011 15 Feb 2011 We are running a series of surgeries to examine housing proposals throughout the year in partnership with NLSA, HCA London, Design for London and TfL. These involve a panel of design experts considering and discussing proposals to support those working on the schemes. Comments are not recorded in a formal letter and those bringing schemes to surgeries can decide to use the advice they hear or not.


Better Streets RoadshowFor subscribing organisations and sponsors, UDL offer an in-house Better Streets Roadshow. The basic concept of Better Streets, and the five key levels of intervention are explained in an hour’s session. Ideal for departmental teams or Councillors, this quick introduction helps you understand what Better Streets is aiming to achieve.

2010 30 Apr 06 May 07 May 12 May 14 May 17 May 17 May 25 May 08 Jun 15 Jun 15 Jun 16 Jun 10 Sep 10 Sep 20 Sep 04 Oct 05 Oct 08 Oct 07 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 22 Oct 05 Nov 16 Nov 07 Dec 07 Dec

2011 28 Jan 01 Feb 02 Feb 09 Feb 03 Feb 08 Mar 08 Mar

Session Day 1: All – Introduction to Urban Design Day 2: Better Streets Design Principles Day 3: Better Streets: Scheme Levels Day 4: All – Big Design Day TfL’s Streetscape Guidance: Advanced Reading and Understanding Plans and Graphics Communicating and Negotiating Design Issues Assessing Streets Barking Town Centre Site Visit Streets Network Meeting Paving Materials, Kerbs and Construction Techniques Tricky Issue Understanding Movement and Urban Structures Streets Network Meeting Shared and Level Surfaces Tricky Issue Day 1: All – Introduction to Urban Design Day 2: Better Streets Design Principles Day 3: Better Streets: Scheme Levels Day 4: All – Big Design Day Covent Garden Legible London Pilot Site Visit Residential Streets, Crime, Parking and Refuse Mayor’s Great Spaces Creating Inclusive Spaces Brixton Town Centre Site Visit Procuring and Managing Projects Streets Network Meeting Traffic Lights Tricky Issue

Day 1: All – Introduction to Urban Design Day 2: Better Streets Design Principles Day 3: Better Streets: Scheme Levels Day 4: All – Big Design Day Manual for Streets 2 Street Furniture, Signs and Lighting Tricky Issue Streets Network Meeting

Street Design Timetable 2010/11


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2010/11 This programme aims to help anyone designing, working on or influencing green space schemes.

The training and network are delivered with the support of the London Parks and Green Space Forum, Design for London, the LDA and CABE. We thank them for their help and guidance.

Green Space Design Programme

The Foundation Course This four day course is ideal for practitioners who wish to refresh their design expertise or who are starting out in the process of designing or influencing green space schemes. It covers the fundamental policies, theories and concepts behind good green space design.

Day 1 Introduction to Urban Design 30 Apr 20 Sep 28 Jan 2011 This day is shared across UDL’s four foundation courses so alongside your professional peers, you will get a chance to meet and work with planners, street practitioners and housing specialists.


It will explain the qualities of successful places and the physical elements that help create them. Key design policies and guidance such as By Design, and CABE green space guidance and the roles of different professions and agencies will be introduced.

Day 2 Well Designed Green Space 04 Oct 07 Feb 2011 This session will explain the origin of public parks and concepts that shape green spaces such as CABE’s Green Flag Awards. It will discuss why the quality of green spaces is important, particularly in regard to climate and water control, public health, economic uplift and community cohesion. The afternoon will focus on the different types of green spaces and their main characteristics while introducing landscape design concepts, the qualities of good spaces and explain key policies and guidance documents.

Day 3 Delivering Better Green Spaces 05 Oct 08 Feb 2011 This day will focus on how you can work to achieve and maintain good quality spaces. It will look at the different types of interventions and projects you may wish to take forward and consider which are most appropriate in different circumstances.

Utilising CABE’s ‘It’s Our Space’ guide, the session will consider how the design process works and look at how you can set project objectives, create briefs, present and consult on schemes and cover management and maintenance issues. The day will also look at how the decision making, funding and planning systems surrounding green space work and how you can engage with these successfully from working in partnership through to the visitor economy.

Day 4 Big Design Day 12 May 08 Oct 09 Feb 2011 Like the Introduction Day, this session will be shared between planners, housing specialists, green space and streets practitioners. Teams will consider an area, looking at understanding its context, to first set scheme objectives and then develop design ideas combining changes to the street, buildings and open spaces holistically.

Architects call these events charrettes. They squeeze the design process from concept to a drawn proposal into a day to help people learn about the balances, compromises, co-operation and imagination that can help create places.

Network Events Our networks bring together local authority staff, councillors, consultants and others. We generally offer three types of network events: meetings, tricky issue sessions and site visits. In the case of green spaces UDL does not run network meetings as these are provided by the LPGSF and the Green Grid project.

Tricky Issue Sessions 09 Jul Optimising Green Space 27 Sep Productive Landscapes 30 Nov Using Signage, Furniture

and Trees 30 Mar River Restoration Projects Here we discuss the nitty gritty of specific design issues that might be causing controversy or confusion. Renowned design or practice experts will be invited to tell us about views and favourite solutions, but the sessions are mainly a chance for network members to bring along schemes, questions or problems to discuss with others.

Site Visits 11 May Quaggy River 08 Jun Barking Town Centre 30 Mar 2011 New River Walk Sometimes we can learn more from visiting and looking at a scheme than any number of seminars and talks. So we are offering guided visits to exemplar green space schemes over the year.

What’s on


Designing for Sustainability 10 May Green spaces can help us control temperatures and manage water. This session will look at how to achieve environmental sustainability, in terms of both mitigation and adaptation, and will also touch on social and economic sustainability.

This workshop will cover what is needed to ensure green places thrive, how we can make the most of green spaces and their climate control potential, and look at best practice examples and explanations.



Community Consultation and Engagement 28 May Spaceshaper is a public space assessment tool that can capture the views of people who use the space as well as professionals who are managing it. This facilitated workshop will discuss this and other consultation techniques encouraging people to demand more from their local spaces and get involved.

Understanding Movement and Urban Structures 16 Jun Movement is a fundamental requirement for any urban area. The structure of our transport network, and the way we understand and manage accessibility, affects how places work. This workshop will examine some of the key tools we use to measure, understand and manage accessibility, and by the end of the workshop you should have a good idea of how these tools can complement each other and inform our planning and transport management systems.

The London Green Grid 18 Jun Design for London, the LDA, GLA, TfL and the east London Boroughs have developed the East London Green Grid (ELGG) which is a multi-functional open space network to help shape and support sustainable communities and tackle climate change. This award winning programme brings together the planning, funding and delivery of green spaces at the landscape scale. Work is now underway to roll the initiative out across London, and develop an All London Green Grid and this workshop will explain what this is about and how you can get involved.

Valuing Green Infrastructure Toolkit 18 Jun Determining the economic and social benefits of green infrastructure projects is difficult to do. This workshop will look at the Green Infrastructure Toolkit, a tool developed by Design for

London, CABE Space, NWDA, Northern Web which offers a way that you can assess the economic and social impact of green infrastructure projects. You will have a chance to test out the toolkit and see how it can be applied to different projects.

Green Space Strategies 30 Sep Good green spaces and parks provide many benefits to a community from economic to social and environmental. This workshop will look at how you can achieve better green spaces through the use of Green Space Strategies. It will explore how these strategies fit with and feed into other council documents and how best to implement and utilise your Green Space Strategies.


Project Showcase and Lessons Learned 02 Dec This workshop will showcase four green space projects looking at all areas from the initial stages and design process through to the lessons learned. These projects will be explored through different viewpoints as presenters will come from a number of backgrounds such as landscape architecture through to local authorities.

2010 10 May 11 May 17 May 17 May 28 May 08 Jun 16 Jun 18 Jun 18 Jun 09 Jul 27 Sep 30 Sep 20 Sep 04 Oct 05 Oct 08 Oct 22 Oct 30 Nov 02 Dec

2011 28 Jan 07 Feb 08 Feb 09 Feb 30 Mar 30 Mar

Session Designing for Sustainability Quaggy River Site Visit Reading and Understanding Plans and Graphics Communicating and Negotiating Design Issues Community Consultation and Engagement Barking Town Centre Site Visit Understanding Movement and Urban Structures The London Green Grid Valuing Green Infrastructure Toolkit Optimising Green Space Tricky Issue Productive Landscapes Tricky Issue How to Use Green Space Strategies Day 1: All – Introduction to Urban Design Day 2: Well Designed Green Space Day 3: Delivering Better Green Spaces Day 4: All – Big Design Day Creating Inclusive Spaces Using Signage, Furniture and Trees Tricky Issue Project Showcase

Day 1: All – Introduction to Urban Design Day 2: Well designed Green Space Day 3: Delivering Better Green Spaces Day 4: All – Big Design Day River Restoration Projects Tricky Issue New River Walk Site Visit

Green Space Design Timetable 2010/11


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2010/11 This programme aims to help anyone involved in planning.

The training, network and surgeries are delivered with the support of Design for London, the LDA and CABE. We thank them for their help and guidance.

Planning and Design Programme

The Foundation Course This four day course is ideal for practitioners who wish to refresh their design expertise or who are starting out in the process of designing or influencing planning schemes. The course covers policies, processes, tools and concepts behind planning management to achieve good design.

Day 1 Introduction to Urban Design 30 Apr 20 Sep 28 Jan 2011 This day is shared across UDL’s four foundation courses so alongside your professional peers, you will get a chance to meet and work with street practitioners, housing and green space specialists.


It will explain the qualities of successful places and the physical elements that help create them. Key design policies and guidance such as By Design, Streetscape Guidance and PPSs, and the roles of different professions and agencies will be introduced.

Day 2 Design, Policy and Planning Process 06 May 24 Sep This session will look at the world of planning policy and how it can help us achieve good quality places. The morning will focus on national and regional policies and examine their relationship to the permissions process and a case study will identify how policies can help negotiations for design improvements.

The afternoon will focus on how planners can influence design quality. Delegates will investigate different tools and techniques to help steer design through development management including how best to conduct and use consultation and Design Review.

Day 3 Planning Decisions and Design at Appeal 07 May 30 Sep This session will track an application from looking at the design appraisal, negotiation, reporting and decision making stages to considering how design related issues may be best dealt with at each stage. It will also look at how to assess the quality of proposals and what information you require to do this properly.

The afternoon session will focus on the role of conditions and reserved matters as a form of quality control. We will also discuss how to deal with design at appeal and stage a mock inquiry using a relevant case study.


Architects call these events charrettes. They squeeze the design process from concept to a drawn proposal into a day to help people learn about the balances, compromises, co-operation and imagination that can help create places.

Planning and Design Network Events Our network brings together local authority officers, councillors, GLA, HCA, Design for London and LDA staff and consultants. We generally offer three types of network events: meetings, tricky issue sessions and site visits.

Meetings 21 May 14 Sep 12 Jan 2011 These are a good way to keep up to date with research, publications, policy and funding programmes with regular presentations from the GLA family, CABE, the Mayor’s organisations, etc.

Tricky Issue Sessions 21 May Policy Creation and

Characterisation Studies 14 Sep Infill Schemes 09 Nov 2011 Master Planning Here we discuss the nitty gritty of specific design issues that might be causing controversy or confusion. Renowned design or practice experts will be invited to tell us about views and favourite solutions, but the sessions are mainly a chance for network members to bring along schemes, questions or problems to discuss with others.

Site Visits 20 Apr Angel Waterside 11 May Quaggy River 08 Jun Barking Town Centre 15 Sep Granville New Homes 07 Oct Covent Garden Legible

London Pilot 05 Nov Brixton Town Centre 30 Mar 2011 New River Walk Sometimes we can learn more from visiting and looking at a scheme than any number of seminars and talks. So we are offering guided visits to exemplar schemes within the built environment focusing on streets, housing, and open space schemes.

What’s on

Workshops Each of these sessions will help you understand and use an important tool or skill. The most popular ones will be repeated later in the year, so look for additional dates on our website.

Understanding Development Economics 29 Apr This session will focus on understanding the language and financial principles which drive the development industry; looking at how authorities can encourage new investment and what financial models are available to help deliver development and regeneration.

Reading and Understanding Plans and Graphics 17 May Any scheme may be illustrated by an assortment of graphical information such as plans, sections, computer generated images etc. This workshop will help you learn how to best use graphics to assess and describe schemes.


Understanding Movement and Urban Structures 16 Jun Movement is a fundamental requirement for any urban area. The structure of our transport network, and the way we understand and manage accessibility, affects how places work.

This workshop will examine some of the key tools we use to measure, understand and manage accessibility, and by the end of the workshop you should have a good idea of how these tools can complement each other and inform our planning and transport management systems

Preparing LDFs 17 Jun Whatever form our planning system takes, it is likely to include core strategies, local AAPs, briefs or masterplans. This workshop will look at best practice examples and how they have been produced to embed good design principles. It will consider when these documents are most useful and the time frames and drivers involved from conception to delivery.

London’s Housing Design Requirements An Overview 22 Jun This session will explain what the Mayor’s organisations are looking for in terms of housing design. It will run through Standards, emerging London Plan policies and SPD explaining key housing issues.

Residential Streets, Crime, Parking and Refuse (LHDR 3) 18 Oct Developed with advice from the metropolitan police this session will look at the general relationship between streets and qualities and crime and safety. It will discuss how Secured by Design should best be used, the opportunities it brings and limitations.

Creating Inclusive Spaces 22 Oct Streets and other open spaces are our communal living space. They should be welcoming and easy to use, regardless of our physical abilities, race, age etc. This workshop will explain the principles behind inclusive design,

showing how it encompasses and supports creating places that cater for the needs of all groups of people. It will focus on inclusive design in relation to both streets and green spaces.

Respecting Historic Environments 01 Dec Based on material developed by English Heritage, and the EH/CABE guide Building in Context, this session will look at how we should consider and respond to the local context for any development, and how design solutions can complement and respect local character.

Space Standards and Inclusive Design 11 Jan 2011 This session will look at Lifetime Homes, Building Regulation requirements, and the Mayor’s inclusive design and housing standards to examine how buildings can ensure safe, comfortable, convenient and respectful use for all.

Design Surgeries Provisional Dates 21 Apr 27 May 25 Jun 20 Jul 16 Sep 13 Oct 03 Nov 03 Dec 11 Jan 2011 15 Feb 2011 We are running a series of surgeries to examine housing proposals throughout the year in partnership with NLSA, HCA London, Design for London and TfL. These involve a panel of design experts considering and discussing proposals to support those working on the schemes. Comments are not recorded in a formal letter and those bringing schemes to surgeries can decide to use the advice they hear or not.


2010 20 Apr 29 Apr 30 Apr 06 May 07 May 12 May 11 May 17 May 17 May 21 May 21 May 08 Jun 16 Jun 17 Jun 22 Jun 14 Sep 14 Sep 15 Sep 20 Sep 24 Sep 30 Sep 08 Oct 07 Oct 18 Oct 05 Nov 16 Nov 01 Dec

2011 11 Jan 12 Jan 12 Jan 30 Mar

Session Angel Waterside Site Visit Understanding Development Economics Day 1: All – Introduction to Urban Design Day 2: Design, Policy and Planning Process Day 3: Planning Decisions and Design at Appeal Day 4: All – Big Design Day Quaggy River Site Visit Reading and Understanding Plans and Graphics Communicating and Negotiating Design Issues Planning Network Meeting Policy Creation and Characterisation Studies Tricky Issue Barking Town Centre Site Visit Understanding Movement and Urban Structures Preparing LDFs London’s Housing Design Requirements – An Overview Planning Network Meeting Infill Schemes Tricky Issue Granville New Homes Site Visit Day 1: All – Introduction to Urban Design Day 2: Design, Policy and Planning Process Day 3: Planning Decisions and Design at Appeal Day 4: All – Big Design Day Covent Garden Legible London Pilot Site Visit Residential Streets, Crime, Parking and Refuse Brixton Town Centre Site Visit Procuring and Managing Projects Respecting Historic Environments

Space Standards and Inclusive Design Planning Network Meeting Masterplanning Tricky Issue New River Walk Site Visit

Planning and Design Timetable 2010/11


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2010/11 This programme aims to support those working on development or public realm schemes by offering informal reviews by a group of design experts.

They are delivered in partnership with Design for London, Transport for London, HCA London and the NLSA. We thank them for their help and participation.

Design Surgery Programme

Background Design is a collective and iterative process. It can be very hard for one individual, or even a project team, to always consider a wide range of ideas and options, however experienced and skilled they are. So many organisations use a form of design review or surgery where a group of people discuss and consider schemes at key points in their development. This allows for a sharing of fresh thoughts and observations, which often build on each other to examine potential problems and pull out possible solutions.

The nature of reviews can vary, depending on who is running them and how the ideas they generate will be used. Existing models include: 1. CABE run formal Design Review programmes which provide written letters that can become public documents.

2. Some boroughs run their own Design Review Panels to support internal decision making.

3. UDL, Design for London, HCA London and NLSA run design surgeries where no written outcome is recorded and it is up to the officers and practitioners present to use the advice and ideas they hear as they wish.

What are we Offering? Provisional Surgery dates: 21 Apr 27 May 25 Jun 20 Jul 16 Sep 13 Oct 03 Nov 03 Dec 11 Jan 2011 15 Feb 2011 Together with Design for London, NLSA, HCA London and TfL we are running a programme of sessions throughout 2010/11. More can be set up depending on demand.

What Types of Schemes Can be Seen? Surgeries can review almost any type of built environment related scheme. Depending on demand, our surgeries are likely to focus on either streets OR mixed use/town centres OR housing schemes. But we need to make sure that we have the right design experts available so please let us know as early as you can what schemes you want to bring along.

When to Use a Surgery Sessions complement other review and decision making processes and not replace or conflict with them. So WE DO NOT want to see schemes which will go to CABE or borough panels, TfL’s internal Design Reviews for major funded schemes, the Mayor’s Planning Decisions’ Unit, or are being supported by Design for London, except in exceptional circumstances when all parties agree.

The surgeries are meant for the smaller, lower profile schemes where you feel you might like a bit of extra support. We would like to see schemes early on in their development, but not too early – we need some ideas to look at!

Please remember surgeries WILL NOT provide you with written evidence you can use at appeal, so please do not bring ‘done deals’ along.

How to Get Involved Just tell us about schemes you would like seen and we will try to book you a slot. Please do this a month before surgery dates.

What to Expect From a Surgery Each scheme gets a slot of between one and two hours depending on its complexity. The scheme sponsor, normally a borough officer, will give explain the background and then the architect or designer will spend about 20 minutes presenting their proposal.

The design experts will then scrutinise the scheme, discussing its merits, potential problems and alternative scenarios. The advisors WILL NOT redesign the scheme, but will discuss their thoughts, and answer questions from the scheme sponsors and architects.

Informal notes will be taken, but these will not be automatically circulated and there WILL BE NO formal letter setting out the advice given within a surgery. It is up to those present to use the advice they hear as they wish. Confidentiality and conflicts of interest will be dealt with appropriately and the surgeries will be formally chaired to make sure everyone has a say.


2010/11 This programme aims to support councillors and chief officers who lead teams or organisations who influence the built environment.

Design Leader’s Programme

Background Leaders are vital to the creation and maintenance of great places. Sometimes they need to put down a clear marker for what will, and will not, be acceptable in terms of quality and character. At other times they may need to support colleagues and officers to achieve their best. And sometimes, unfortunately, they may need to give people a forceful nudge to get things done!

Leaders may be councillors, chief officers, heads or managers of companies, consultants, government organisations or partnerships. Wherever they sit a true leader will leave their mark, and will hopefully be proud of the difference they have made.

Leaders can make a difference in lots of ways – but at UDL we believe that they are vital to the quality of our built environment. We also think that leaders will reap tangible rewards in the short and longer term, from influencing development to making places and neighbourhoods better for all.

So we are offering a special programme to support leaders. It is a focussed programme and we hope you find it useful. Each event will either be held at an exemplar built scheme and/or will introduce you to leading experts. They will also give you the chance to meet each other and discuss common issues and solutions.

Events Dates 01 Jun 2010 Post Election Update 11 Nov 2010 Leader’s Seminar 03 Mar 2011 Leader’s Dinner and Debate

Design Diagnostic There are a number of ways your organisation can help ensure it will achieve good design. These might relate to your processes, resources and/or skills. If you would like we are happy to sit down with you and discuss how things work at the moment and suggest one or two actions you might like to take forward to improve how the design quality is addressed.

Road-shows Please remember that we can often come to your offices to give short presentations on key issues for your councillors and/or staff. For example TfL have funded a Better Streets road-show which consists of an hour long session explaining the principles and stages of intervention behind creating more balanced, successful streets. As a leader you may like to ensure this or other road-shows are delivered in your organisation.

Design Surgery Programme You may find these design surgeries a useful alternative to setting up your own design review panel, or you might like to try one out to see how useful your organisation finds peer reviews of schemes. We have a surgery date each month next year (see Design Surgery Programme). As a design leader please feel free to come along and observe a session, or encourage your teams to bring schemes along to be seen.


Network Memberships

2010/11 Housing, Streets, Planning and Green Space.

Background These four Design Networks aim to support anyone working on or influencing schemes across London.

They are delivered with the support of our partnership organisations: Design for London, TfL, HCA London, the LDA, the GLA, CABE and the London Parks and Green Space Forum. We thank them for their help and guidance.

Each network complements the more formal CPD training we offer on the subject area.

What’s on Offer? Each network provides the opportunity for representatives from the public and private sectors across London meet peers, to debate best practise and deliberate and discuss emerging policy and research with leading experts, the Mayor of London’s organisations and CABE at:

Meetings These are a good way to keep up to date with research, publications, policy and funding programmes with regular presentations from the GLA family, CABE and others. Three meetings are scheduled for each design programme.

Tricky Design Issue Sessions These seminars discuss the nitty-gritty of specific design issues that might be causing controversy or confusion. Renowned design or practice experts

will be invited to tell us about views and favourite solutions, but these three sessions are mainly a chance for network members to bring along schemes, questions or problems to discuss with others.

Site Visits Sometimes we can learn more from visiting and looking at a scheme than any number of seminars and talks. So we are offering three guided visits for each network to exemplar schemes over the year.

For details, please refer to the relevant training programme for each Design Network events: – Housing Design Programme – Streets Design Programme – Planning and Design Programme – Green Space Design Programme*

* Meetings organised by London Parks and Green Space Forum

Joining a Network If the organisation you work for subscribes to or funds UDL you can become a member of any network free of charge. Just let us know which you want to join.

If you or your organisation do not subscribe or fund UDL, you can still join a network by paying a yearly fee of £1,000 plus VAT per person per network. For this you are entitled to attend all your network’s events plus our two general conferences.

If you work for a private sector consultancy, architecture or design firm, developer or are just interested in the subject, this yearly membership will be a good way for you to meet and highlight your work to perspective clients and partners and keep up to date with how public sector practitioners are managing issues. But please note that we are offering a very limited number of yearly network places; our networks will remain predominantly for public sector people.

General Enquiries To enquire about joining the Design Network please contact: [email protected] 020 7593 8379

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