1. TCPA Seminar
19th March 2012
Planning for Growth
Will Cousins
Deputy Chairman David Lock Associates
2. Best practice in master planning urban extensions and
new settlements
What are the measures of success?
scale,
quality of place
economic vitality
and speed of delivery
Creating the conditions for success
strategic thinking, planning and doing
awareness and understanding
connectivity and movement
governance
engaging with the context
innovation
3. Best practice in master planning urban extensions and
new settlements
The Social City Region
The New Settlement
The Urban Extension
4. Best practice in master planning urban extensions and
new settlements
The 3 P’s
Patron
Promoter
Partner
5. THE SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES PLAN
• ODPM (now CLG) Growth
The Four Major Growth Areas Area Funding (including
Thames Gateway) of £1.2Bn
between 2003 and 2008
• £200m Community
Infrastructure Fund transport
schemes
• 10 new local delivery vehicles
in newer growth areas
• Thames Gateway Strategy -
£6Bn commitment across
Government
• With Thames Gateway
200,000 additional units to
2016
6. “There are in reality not only, as is so constantly
assumed, two alternatives – town life and country life
– but a third alternative, in which all the advantages of
the most energetic and active town life, with all the
beauty and delight of the country, maybe secured in
perfect combination.”
‘To-Morrow! A Peaceful Path to Real Reform’ (1898)
7. Milton Keynes New City 1968
Goals of the Plan : the guiding principles for the
development of Milton Keynes
Opportunity and freedom of choice
Easy movement and access
Balance and variety
The creation of an attractive city
Public awareness
Efficient and imaginative use of resources
11. EBBSFLEET: MODAL SPLIT
STATION
Public Transport 13%
Taxi 3%
Slow Modes
Walk & Cycle
7%
Car 77%
EBBSFLEET DEVELOPMENT
Public Transport
Car 37% 48%
Slow Modes
Walk & Cycle 15%
12.
13. Northstowe 1999
Private Sector Promoter
The Cambridge Garden City
The Innovation Market Town
2007 Prime Minister’s first
Announcement for an
EcoTown
“no matter how much a
thing is planned the
result is always a surprise”
Joel Garreau
Edge City: Life on the New Frontier (1991)
31. Best practice in master planning urban extensions and
new settlements
In conclusion
If we know what the correct conditions are, where are the
next generation of :
Patron
Promoter
Partner ?