Urban Design

Urban design is an interdisciplinary activity involving planning, architecture, art, landscape and highways design. It promotes a common purpose amongst the various disciplines therefore it is not the concern of just one profession. Essentially the service is about promoting, creating, communicating and delivering places that people like to live work and play in.
 
The Urban Design service aims to ensure the urban environment is:
  • Accessible
 
  • Safe
 
  • Clean
 
  • Attractive
 
  • Sustainable
 
  • Vibrant
 
Urban design ranges from the provision of strategic policy frameworks that assist regeneration initiatives right through to a front line service which provides support at all stages of the development control process.
 
Urban design is part of the mainstream planning service and delivers the following areas of work:
  • Supplementary Planning Guidance
    Detailed policy statements/guidance in conjunction with the Development Plan, for example guidance on aspects of community safety and residential development.
 
 
  • Development Briefs
    That provides guidelines and a vision for the future development of sites     That provides guidelines and a vision for the future development of sites 
 
  • Development Control Advice and Support
    At pre-application, application and public local inquiry stages  
 
  • Public Consultation
    Discussing proposals for the future development of sites in the public arena 
 
  • Advice for special projects and fund bidding

Contact Details
Name: Urban Design and Conservation
Address: Planning and Environmental Health
3 St James's Road
Dudley
DY1 1HZ
Tel: 01384 814145
Contact: General Contact Form


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