Join the IHBC’s South West (SW) Branch Partnership event for special and rare CPD on design and placemaking for historic areas, with Dave Chetwyn on ‘Heritage and Design’ and ‘Placemaking in Historic Areas’, (In-Person or Online, 13/03; supported by IHBC’s CPD Branch Partnership*).
Secure your place by booking HERE
IHBC South West Branch writes:
… This includes understanding context, design codes, policies and guidance. It also covers wider placemaking issues for historic areas, including housing growth, high streets and town centres. Topics covered during the day will include:
- Planning for heritage
- Placemaking and design policy & codes
- Evidence, tools and methodologies
- Legislation, policy and guidance
- Understanding context
- Theory/Philosophy
- Economics
* This is an IHBC CPD Branch Partnership event, linked to IHBC’s 2025 Annual School, #IHBCShrewsbury2025, 12-14 June. See more information on the IHBC CPD Branch Partnership on the website under Placemaking’
IHBC writes on the IHBC CPD Branch Partnership for ‘Placemaking and Design Codes’
Topics that will be covered in a CPD training day
The training would address different aspects of placemaking, design and planning for historic places. The CPD event would address the following themes:
Planning for heritage: Considering place-making as an integral part of planning for heritage, including strategies, policies, local and neighbourhood plans, site-planning and management plans.
Placemaking and design policy and codes: The relationship between design evidence and analysis, design codes, design policy and design guidance and how and where to use each.
Legislation, policy and guidance: The statutory basis for design and placemaking and design, including legislation, policy and guidance.
Evidence, Tools and Methodologies: Placemaking evidence, including designations, character, economic data and evidence on use trends. Also, tools and methodologies, such as Place-check, High Street Task Force 25 priorities and the IHBC toolbox.
Understanding context: design in historic areas, including townscape analysis, understanding polite architecture and vernacular buildings, contemporary and green design, etc.
Theory/Philosophy: How conservation, architectural, planning and urban theories/philosophies, concepts and movements inform placemaking in historic areas.
Economics: The socio-economic values of ‘place’ and heritage, especially in achieving more sustainable and inclusive forms of development, growth and regeneration.
The training will consider Effective Practices, including good and poor practice examples.
The training would address various IHBC competences, including philosophy and theory, practice, design and presentations, historic and architectural interest, legislation and policy and economics.
About Dave Chetwyn
Dave Chetwyn is Managing Director and partner of Urban Vision Enterprise CIC and a Director/Partner of D2H Land Planning Development. Other roles include High Street Task Force Expert, Associate of the Consultation Institute and a Design Council Expert. Dave also Chairs the IHBC Communications and Outreach Committee. Former roles include Chair of the Board of the National Planning Forum, Head of Planning Aid England, Chair of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation and Chair of the Historic Towns Forum.
Dave has extensive experience of developing and delivering training and CPD for various professional and membership bodies, local authorities and town and parish councils. This includes training on planning, design, placemaking, neighbourhood plans, heritage-led regeneration and community engagement and consultation. Dave has also prepared guidance for various national bodies, including the Neighbourhood Planning Roadmap (Locality), Conservation Professional Practice Principles (IHBC and HTVF), Heritage in Neighbourhood Plans (National Trust), and drafted parts of BS7913 (Guide to the Conservation of Historic Buildings). Dave recently worked on revising the IHBC competence descriptors.
Dave’s experience and expertise includes complex mediation between public bodies, planning negotiations, planning for heritage, heritage-led regeneration, neighbourhood planning, statutory consultation (legal compliance) and third sector organisational development.
Dave is a chartered member of the Royal Town Planning Institute, a full member of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation, a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and a Fellow of the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce).
Booking: Please book your place using this form
IHBC Members:
In-person delegate £40.00
Virtual delegate £20.00
Non members:
In-person delegate £65.00
Virtual delegate £35.00
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See more on #IHBCShrewsbury2025 at https://shrewsbury2025.ihbc.org.uk
See more on IHBC’s CPD Branch Partnership, including under ‘Placemaking & Design Codes’
