This 35 minute film is the talk given by Jonathan Tricker, a Highway Engineer, Urban Designer and Director (SW) of Phil Jones Associates; Jonathan was one of our speakers on the Design Review Panel Training / CPD training day.

Jonathan's information packed film explores what makes good places. He refers to as built examples, industry guides, literature and regulations as well as case studies of projects reviewed as part of the Design Review Panel process. Jonathan's talk also explores Street Design looking at:

Design for Slower Speed

Street Width & Frontage Condition

Active Streets

Signage, Markings & Furniture

Materials & Planting

Footways & Crossings

Informal Streets

Carriageway Width

Junction Design

Visibility & Alignment

Parking / Servicing

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The Design Review Panel (https://www.designreviewpanel.co.uk) was launched in 2013 upon the invitation of a group of local authorities to provide impartial, independent, multidisciplinary and expert peer review to design teams, applicants and local authorities. Since then the Panel has expanded and provides regular design review panel sessions across the south west (Cornwall, Plymouth, South hams, West Devon, North Devon, East Devon, Mid Devon, Exeter, West Somerset, Taunton, Mendip, South Somerset, North Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, Swindon, Bath and Bristol) The Panel also provides remote desktop reviews nationally and ad-hoc sessions upon request nationally.

Design Review Panel feedback is a material consideration in the Planning process. Paragraph 62 of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) states:-

"Local planning authorities should have local design review arrangements in place to provide assessment and support to ensure high standards of design ... In assessing applications, local planning authorities should have regard to the recommendations from the design review panel."

https://www.designreviewpanel.co.uk