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| Reference: Framework versus masterplan Reference information: Urban Design Guidance Rob Cowan/Urban Design Group, Thomas Telford. Now that urban design has moved from the margins to the mainstream of government policy, the new role for the Urban Design Group is becoming clearer. Advocacy has given way to instruction, promotion to research. The success of advocacy however has exposed some of the unresolved rituals of urban design practice. One such ritual has been an accepted process for urban design guidance. Whilst we use words like 'framework' or 'masterplan' in a loose and somewhat cavalier manner, we seem to understand what we mean (although a recent brief calling for a 'masterplan framework' left me somewhat bemused). The move from this rather Olympian elitism to the spit and sawdust of the local authority planning process has meant that although we all use the same words and phrases we do not necessarily understand each other. We are a profession divided by a common language. http://www.rudi.net/node/6602 -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs (2011-02-01 10:41:37 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- More from the above link: This publication is very well timed and its importance is summed up in the first few pages where a series of definitions not only clarify the different forms of guidance, but also show their relationship. It gives useful distinctions between Frameworks, Design Briefs and Masterplans. This takes in the more visionary overview of the Urban Design Framework, where the layers of an area are uncovered and explored, to the more focused and financially detailed requirements of the Masterplan that are required to deliver and implement a project. How Frameworks, Briefs and Masterplans fit into the local plan process is set out in a clear and understandable way. Guidance can have Supplementary Planning Guidance status, but like all additions to legal documents the discontinuities are often fudged. The issue is whether Supplementary Planning Guidance is a good enough vehicle for urban design guidance, or whether such guidance should be fully embedded into the local plan and be the progenitor for the visionary aspect so missing in our current planning process. My view is that urban design guidance in the form of Frameworks, Briefs and Masterplans can help set the agenda for the local plan rather than just illustrating it. |
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