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Essex Design Guide 2017: A Charter for Growth
This presentation will cover:
1. Brief History of Essex Design Guide
2. Why are we refreshing the EDG
3. What’s New - key themes
4. Timeframe
5. Next Steps
6. Questions
Essex Design Guide 2017: A Charter for Growth Guess the year?
Essex Design Guide 2017: A charter for Growth Essex Design Guide beginnings: the year 1973
Essex Design Guide 2017: A Charter for Growth History
• Essex is known as a trail blazer in recognising and promoting the value of Good Design
• EDG updated in 1997 and 2005
• Aim was to ensure a consistent high level approach to improve the quality of place-making
Sir Parker Morris
The Parker Morris Committee drew
up an influential 1961 report on
housing space standards
Updated in 1997 & 2005
The art of place - making Shaping the physical setting for life in cities, towns and villages is more than just a
design challenge.
“The Essex Design Guide has always been
a true icon”
“It has also come to symbolise the vision,
leadership and commitment to quality of
place that all local authorities should show;
but which many, sadly, fail to achieve.”
“The Guide has been updated over the years
but at its heart it’s still about more than
architecture. It’s about leadership. It’s about
civic pride.”
“It’s about local people setting out
the terms on which investors will be
allowed to add to their most precious
assets: their sense of place, identity and
community.”
“The Essex Design Guide is the guarantee
that Essex will remain Essex. That it will
be somewhere, not a nowhere place. It is
as important now as when it was first
published. An icon for our times.”
Richard Simmons was chief executive of
CABE from 2004 to 2011
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Why refresh EDG
• Changes in our expectations, way of life and neighbourhoods
• Significant housing growth planned over the next 20 years and
the emphasis on local planning policy and design guidance
• New community lead neighbourhood plans will also benefit from
referring to readily accessible local design guidance
• The quality of existing places must be properly understood in
order to deliver new places in keeping with the character and
pattern of existing towns and villages
• As over 70% of Essex us rural, it is essential that the developers
and individual property owners understand and value the
character of rural Essex as well as urban areas
• New homes will bring other community benefits
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Key Dates & Activity
Essex Design Guide 2017: A charter for Growth Deliverables and timelines
Refreshed Essex Design Guide
Active Design Principles
Health and wellbeing
Garden Settlements
Ageing Population
Future Proofing/future technologies
Draft Essex Design Guide resource website
Engagement exercise
Charter for Growth
Project sign-off
Launch event February
Establish a Quality Panel for Essex
March 2017
September 2017
October 2017
October 2017
October 2017
October 2017
December 2017
November/December 2017
January 2017
February 2018
February 2018
2018
• Carry out final reviews / quality assurance of EDG with key users.
• Complete website design and content upload
• Signoff of 2018 Essex Design Guide with EPOA
• Prepare for launch event in February 2018.
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