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Planning for sustainable places
West of England Partnership Conference
‘Meeting the challenges, Achieving our
ambitions’
Paul Lavelle
27 November 2009
Planning for sustainable places
I.
What are the attributes of a good place?
II.
Why should plan for this at the sub-regional scale?
III. Example: Cambridge Futures
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Valuing sustainable urbanism
(Savills research for Prince’s Foundation)
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… people want ‘place’
Source: Savills Research
Places that are connected, overlapping and
distinctive command greater value
(economic, social, environmental)
Regression Plot
Principles of a ‘good place’
Broad purpose

Maximise opportunity for exchange

Maximise choice
Overarching values

Equal opportunities / social justice

Cultural identity/diversity
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Environmental sustainability

Economic prosperity
Quality of life
well-made
decently-proportioned
easy to walk around
gardens, parks and squares
adaptable
Placemaking
‘Place’ is becoming more important as
a driver of economic growth and
prosperity. As technology and other
changes enable labour, capital and
information to move between countries
with increasing ease, the particular
characteristics of places, and their
flexibility to respond to economic
trends, become even more crucial to
economic prosperity and resilience.
Local Government White Paper
Drivers of change
Population and household growth
Drivers of change
Adapting places to environmental change
 Cities consume 75% of all resources and produce 75% of all waste
 96 months till we reach a tipping point on climate change
 We have to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
by 80% by 2050, and 50% are
related to the built
environment
 The International Energy
Agency predicts an oil
crunch as soon as 2012
Drivers of change
Health and well-being
sustainable transport
green infrastructure
accessible and efficient services
therapeutic environments
adaptable accommodation
...quality of place
Drivers of change:
The way the economy works

functional urban areas increasing in size
– disintegration of employment and residential locations
– high mobility
Source: Hall P and Pain K (2006)
The Polycentric Metropolis
– increase in dual career households
no. of travel to work areas
TTW areas
year
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1981
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1991
Source: RTPI (2006) Uniting Britain

increasing emphasis on place
–
people + firms + physical environment
–
effects of globalisation and the move towards knowledge economies
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A placemaking approach at the
sub-regional scale
 A process of creating and
managing socially,
environmentally and economically
successful places
by...
 working across sectors
including housing, health,
transport, employment and
education,
to...
 achieve well planned, well
designed and well managed
cities, towns and neighbourhoods.
Understanding the components of place
and the role of spatial planning
 a clear and engaging
‘story of change’
 an urban
design/spatial
framework for
delivery of strategic
objectives / projects
 drawing on strategic
themes
 a way to resolve
issues around subregional working
within the planning
system
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Drawing on examples from the UK
and beyond
New generation policy model / Statutory / Top-down
Montpellier SCOT
Example – predictive analysis model:
Cambridge Futures
Integration model / Non-statutory to statutory / Bottomup and top-down
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Cambridge Futures
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Cambridge Futures
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Cambridge: Alternative Futures
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Cambridgeshire Quality Charter
Community
Places where people live out of
choice...
Connectivity
...with easy access for all to jobs
and services
Climate
Places that anticipate climate
change in ways that advance the
desirability of development
Character
Places with distinctive
neighbourhoods...
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Lessons from Cambridgeshire
Using design in planning: generating positive options
 Facilitating decision making and
aligning interests among many
stakeholders and communities
 Modelling and testing options –
eg. exploring options for urban
extensions informally, outside the
planning system
 Giving confidence to challenge
assumptions
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Thank you
Paul Lavelle
[email protected]
www.cabe.org.uk