Issue - meetings

Improving Standards of Design in Gloucester

Meeting: 15/01/2020 - Cabinet (Item 85)

85 Driving Up Architectural Design in Gloucester pdf icon PDF 158 KB

To consider the report of the Cabinet Member for Planning and Housing Strategy advising Members of a plan intended to take steps to drive up the standards of architectural design across the City to be delivered by the City Growth and Delivery service.

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Decision:

RESOLVED to adopt the recommendations summarised at Appendix 1 of the report.

 

Minutes:

Cabinet considered the report of the Cabinet Member for Planning and Housing Strategy that advised Members of a plan intended to take steps to drive up the standards of architectural design across the City to be delivered by the City Growth and Delivery service.

 

The Cabinet Member for Planning and Housing Strategy thanked the City Growth and Delivery Manager for his work to engage with businesses and architects.  He advised Members that this new relationship between planners and the private sector had generated healthy debate and scoped the non-prescriptive framework to raise architectural design standards, promote good practice and elevate both expectations and the profile of Gloucester.  The Cabinet Member for Culture and Leisure informed Members that in his experience on the Planning Committee this was a new opportunity.  He expressed the wish to drive the message forward that Gloucester was striving for excellence.  The Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Economy supported the recommendations and reminded Members of examples where good quality design had been achieved recently including at the Provender building on Bakers Quay and the Transport Hub.

 

RESOLVED to adopt the recommendations summarised at Appendix 1 of the report.