Annual Design Conference: Storeys with a twist

How will Transform South Yorkshire incentivise design quality?
See how Urban Splash will redevelop Sheffield\'s Park Hill
How is the luxury Project:LIFE house influencing a new range of studio homes?
How many cars should local authorities plan for each new home?
What are the best car parking treatments?
How will Yorkshire\'s first homezone scheme, Miller Homes\' Allerton Bywater, get adopted?

PLUS Visit David Wilson Homes’ Project:LIFE and Urban Splash\'s Park Hill (transport supplied

Agenda

Session 1 – Layout Quality

9.30am Welcome from conference chair Mike Gahagan, chair of the Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder, Transform South Yorkshire
9.35am A 3 strand strategy for boosting quality in housebuilding. Transform South Yorkshire anticipates a budget of £85m for 2006-08 to strengthen the housing markets in Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield. Money will be targeted at adding design skills and capacity, working with the consumer and raising quality by helping housebuilders achieve Building for Life so that added value criteria are not outweighed by cost. Pathfinder Board chairman Mike Gahagan explains the approach and how housebuilders should target BFL’s support.
10am Car Parking 1: How much should we plan for? Research commissioned by ODPM in 2003 looks at average levels of car ownership and parking need based on 2001 Census data. Here the research authors Phil Jones of Phil Jones Consulting and Alan Young of WSP unveil how their analysis points to a greater understanding of how many spaces local planning authorities should plan for now that PPS3 leaves them to set local standards.
10.25am Car Parking 2: How more parking can be accommodated efficiently. More than 70 parking treatments have been analysed in a new car parking toolkit published by English Partnerships and Design for Homes. Here English Partnerships’ Kevin McGeough and Design for Homes’ David Birkbeck pick some highlights. 10.50am Coffee break

Session 2 - New Markets

11.15am Bold steps at Allerton Bywater. English Partnerships has adopted design standards including Building for Life to replace its original Millennium Communities initiative at Allerton Bywater. Here Miller Homes Yorkshire Steve Birch and technical director Brian Moffat explain the changes to standard practice behind 197 new homes, which includes a homezone.
11.45am Reinventing Park Hill. Park Hill is the icon of the failed utopian vision for municipal housing. How to redevelop it has plagued the local authority but now Urban Splash, Manchester Methodis Housing Association and Hammerson are creating 300 homes for rent, 300 for sale and 300 refurbished business units. Urban Splash Yorkshire development director Simon Gawthorpe talks through the design.
12.15 From Project:LIFE to i-LiFE. Project:LIFE is the David Wilson Homes test bed for what excites new home buyers about spatial planning, It is also now influencing a range of new studio houses at reduced prices for those looking for a house for the price of a flat. Here David Wilson Homes development director James Wilson explains the Project:LIFE experiment and gives an insight into how the knowledge gained from watching real people respond to spatial planning has helped design the recently launched i-LiFE range of new house types.
12.45pm Q&A

1pm lunch

2.15pm Coaches depart for Park Hill and Project:LIFE. 4.00pm Coaches return and conference ends.

Delegate info
Registration will commence at 9.00am with coffee and registration. The conference will start at 9.30am and is expected to conclude at 4.00pm. Delegates will receive a confirmation of their booking. A final agenda and map for the venue will be sent to delegates nearer the event.