Visioning and Policy Scoping

CABE - the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment

Client guides
CABE produces guides to help those responsible for delivering public buildings and spaces. Our client guides cover issues such as building a strong team, establishing a design vision and consulting users effectively. They include useful illustrative examples.

Selecting design and development partners
How evaluation and selection processes can be structured to deliver successful, well-designed places.

Open space strategies: best practice guidance
Practical guidance to local authorities and their stakeholders on how to prepare, deliver, monitor and review an open space strategy.

Sustainable Cities
Expert advice on planning, designing and managing a sustainable place.

Planning at CABE
Good planning can deliver good design in the right place and at the right time. Poor planning can leave a terrible legacy of failed buildings and spaces.

Homes and Communities Agency (HCA)

Visioning
To deliver sustainable communities, people need the right generic skills, knowledge and behaviour to accompany their technical skills.  The ability to vision a future state for a community is just one.  Click here for more information.

Policy Scoping
The HCA works with local authorities to deliver national housing and regeneration policies and targets at a local level.  Click here for more information.

Procurement
The HCA aims to achieve efficient and effective procurement of works, goods and services to enable us to meet our operational and administrative requirements. Click here for more information.

Homes and Communities Agency / Advisory Team for Large Applications (ATLAS)

Visioning
The most successful projects begin with a clear vision statement produced collaboratively between all parties. This approach is particularly relevant to the complex nature of major residential growth, to capture the opportunities that a project site may present and establish constructive working arrangements to overcome constraints.  Click here for more information.

Establishing a strong, up front 'vision' is crucial in terms of building consensus in expectations and understanding the alternative positions of key partner stakeholders at an early stage in the overall process.. Click here for more information.

Policy Scoping
The content and status of the Local Development Framework (LDF) in relation to the project site needs to be considered carefully. The site may already have been identified for certain users, or it may be that a policy vacuum exists which may need to be filled by some form of interim policy position.  Click on the following links for more information:

Planning Policy

Strategic Planning Framework

Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA)

Visioning
In terms of visioning, the Improvement and Development Agency can offer local authorities the following guidance:

Identifying the right vision

Where to start: Vision and Process

Translating your vision into action

Vision and Priorities

Vision, purpose and scope

Procurement
Procurement Resource - aims to provide you with easy access to the resources, contacts and services you need for procurement management. This resource is designed specifically to meet the needs of local government procurement.  Click here for more information.

Improvement and Efficiency South East (IESE)

Procurement
Improvement and Efficiency South East aims to work with local authorities to ensure they have access, the capability, capacity and knowledge necessary to make intelligent procurement decisions. Click here for more information.

Planning Advisory Service

Visioning
The new planning system relies on a holistic approach to making plans. A 'good' plan is one that reflects the needs of the community. Developing a common vision will close the gap between your core strategy and other key strategic documents in your council.  Click here for more information.

Policy Scoping
Planning Policy Statements set out national land use policy and indicates how this should be reflected in regional and local policies.   Click here for more information.

South East England Partnership Board

Political understanding
South East England Councils (SEEC) was established in 2008 to be the democratically representative voice of South East England. Its members are elected councillors from local authorities throughout the region.

Spatial Policy Integration

A series of guides have been produced to help local authority planners incorporate the key elements of the South East Plan into their Local Development Frameworks (LDFs). The guides should assist in producing Development Plan Documents (DPDs) that are sound, particularly in terms of their evidence base and deliverability. The guidance is focused on the development of the LDF core strategy and reflects the various stages of plan preparation. For more information, click here.