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This case study looks at five schemes to draw out lessons on how growth can be accommodated successfully in historic towns. |
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This case study explores the need for Local Development Frameworks to tackle head on issues arising from not paying proper attention to 'the nuts and bolts, the infrasture, that make places work'. |
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This case study relates to the flood risk assessment of a proposed development covering nearly 500 hectares on the outskirts of Waterbeach village in Cambridgeshire. It also explores a Floodproof Pilot in Holland and examples from Peterborough. |
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In 2008, phase one of this Cambridge development made architectural history as the first residential scheme in Europe to win the acclaimed RIBA Sterling prize. This case study explores both the Accordia design as well as the team behind this landmark development, to ask what we can learn from Accordia. |
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This case study looks at a number of issues that can arise in negotiations between local planning authorities and developers trying to achieve a reduction in s106 requirements on large sites as a result of the recession. |
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This case study looks at how to get the most from your masterplan and is based on a development in Dublin, called Adamstown. The scheme won the Royal Town Planning Institute's Sustainable Communities Award 2009. Metropolitan Workshop were the lead Architects and Urban Designers on the project. |
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This case study looks at how partnership working bewteen local authorities has developed in the Cambridge Growth Area |
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Current housing market uncertainties provide an opportunity to re-examine the potential contribution of the self organised housing sector to stabilising market conditions, re-establishing supply and raising quality standards. This series of case studies expores the various self organised housing sector approaches including self building, self finishing and self commissioning. |
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Housing providers need to develop more sustainable, less energy-intensive systems and approches that are socially acceptable and affordable to low income households. Reserachers at the University of East Anglia have undertaken a carbon footprint of a small development of low energy affordable homes at Lingwood in Norfolk. This case study provides an account of the study and the findings. |
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The promotion of sustainable development has long been at the heart of town planning and urban design. For the first time Government has drawn together in national planning policy a range of challenging sustainability standards to promote high quality exemplar new settlements: Eco-towns. This case study reviews the background to the eco-town programme, and explores approaches employed at two shortlisted eco-town proposals in the East of England. |
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Shape East has developed a range of participatory community consultation models designed to engage young people and give them a voice in the development process. We present 'Making Neighbourhoods' for both Primary and Secondary school communities in the growth areas across the region. This case study looks at these models in more detail and provides past examples. |
