{"id":16270,"date":"2017-08-01T16:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=16270"},"modified":"2017-08-01T16:00:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T15:00:49","slug":"design-and-access-statements-in-wales-why-what-and-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=16270","title":{"rendered":"Design and Access Statements in Wales: Why, What and How"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DAS_Wales_2017.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-16271\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DAS_Wales_2017-197x300.png\" alt=\"DAS Wales 2016\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The Design Commission for Wales has written a design and access Statement which has been published by the Welsh Government consequent to legislative changes concerning design and access (DAS) in April last year.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This guidance highlights good practice in the production of Design and Access Statements (DAS) in Wales.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The aim of the guidance is to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>outline the benefits of undertaking a DAS,<\/li>\n<li>provide advice on what should and should not be included in a DAS,<\/li>\n<li>suggests a structure for the document; and<\/li>\n<li>highlights the issues it should address.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It also contains advice for local planning authority officers, when receiving a DAS to assess, on the questions to ask to ascertain if a robust design process has been undertaken and whether design quality is evident.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gov.wales\/topics\/planning\/policy\/guidanceandleaflets\/design-and-access-statements-in-wales\/?skip=1&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Design Commission for Wales has written a design and access Statement which has been published by the Welsh Government consequent to legislative changes concerning design and access (DAS) in April last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16272,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16270\/revisions\/16272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}