12th September 2012

1. Design Review - Car Parking Event
MADE
Birmingham
12th September 2012
Martin Stockley
CEng, FICE, FIStructE, MCILT, FRSA
Managing Director - STOCKLEY
Places Matter! Design Review Panel Chairman
CABE Built Environment Expert
CABE Thames Tideway Tunnel Panel Member
CABE Crossrail Panel Member
MADE Design Review Panel Member
Yorkshire Design Review Panel Member
English Heritage Urban Panel Member
Bath Urban Regeneration Panel Member
Bath Transport Commission
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5. Car parking is not a single consistent
activity -
Don’t lump it all together under one title
and treat the same
Think about the movement
characteristics and human activity
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6. Car parking for residential and
commercial office properties
•It is not a commercial car park
•More akin to ‘car storage’
•Movement characteristics tend to be
focussed on morning and early evening
peaks
•Users are regulars
•Users are at the end of their journeys
•Users are part of a local community
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7. The Developer’s view:
Influenced by -
•sales and sales agents
•planners
•designers
•others?
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8. Developer is interested in
•What did we sell yesterday?- existing
markets?
•Can we make our own market?
•What can we sell individual properties
for?
•How do we minimise infrastructure
costs?
•How do we assure buyers of control of
their own space? STOCKLEY

9. Planners interested in
•Local planning policy - numbers
•Council Members and their constituents
•Practical problems - residents
unreasonable demands
•Environmental quality, sustainability etc
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10. Dilemma of dealing with both
complimentary and conflicting aims
Important not to aim to ‘solve’ specifics
outside of the context of a ‘resolution’ of
the whole. e.g. technical highways
standardised response
This is where design review comes into
its own
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11. The Design Review Panel
view:
Interested in -
•design (global to detail)
•the bigger picture
•value for money
•costs
•planning
•sales STOCKLEY

12. The Design Review Panel’s key tools:
•independence - not answerable to
either developer or LA or other
stakeholders
•wide experience
•specific experience
•cutting-edge experience
•a background of success (the Lendl
factor)
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13. Design review
•How does the whole place work?
•How do we help make this part of the
existing place?
•Detail, detail, detail....
•How do we minimise infrastructure and
achieve good community interaction?
•How do we avoid more ‘controlling’
measures? Support self-sufficiency.
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14. What can we do to improve?
•Have a better, more specific understanding
of what you are trying to resolve
•Think about the place first and how we
want the public realm to be
•Question policy (private and public) to be
sure that it is relevant to the site and context
•Don’t be deterred by technical opposition,
make your own assessment of hazard and
risk
•Be creative in responding to each site
•The LA are agents not designers - it is the
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design team’s responsibility to get this stuff