Useful stuff

This page offers a variety of Word documents and PDFs that deal with urban design issues. To view Word files, you must have Microsoft Word. To view PDF files, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader.

If you have attended a session in the past and would like the presentations from it or if there’s a particular item you’re interested in that you can’t find, please email us for assistance.

And don’t forget the urban design learning space; our e-learning site has a wealth of information, examples and activities introducing urban design concepts, legislation, best practice and more.

Useful Documents
* Urban Design Reading List, July 2007

* Commentary on PPS3

* Councillor’s Guide to Good Urban Design

* Borough Design Panels

* 10 Ways to Deal with Appeals Discussion Document

* Design at Appeal (CABE publication)

* Design Appeals Discussion Document

* Design at Appeal Document

* Appeal Decision: Harrow

* How Does Design Fit Within Planning?

* How to Intensify Social Housing Estates (Paper by Dickon Robinson, ex cabe commissioner and director of Peabody Housing)

* UDL 10 point Urban Design Action Plans