{"id":8290,"date":"2014-08-13T10:17:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T09:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=8290"},"modified":"2014-08-13T10:56:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T09:56:42","slug":"post-farrell-review-the-big-meet-update-a-place-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=8290","title":{"rendered":"Post-Farrell Review: The Big Meet update, &#038; a \u2018Place Alliance\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Following a multi-organisation and multi-disciplinary meeting in July at University College London (UCL) to discuss the impacts of the Farrell Review and platemaking leadership in England, documents relating to the scope and context of a \u2018Place Alliance\u2019 are now available (with comments sought by 25 August)<\/span>.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">UCL &amp; the Big Meet writes<\/span>:<br \/>\nIn July 2014, 77 organisations and 106 delegates met at The Bartlett, UCL, to discuss what The Farrell Review and UCL\u2019s recent research both identified as an English \u2018place leadership\u2019 gap.\u00a0 The organisations reflected all built environment interests: design, development, planning, conservation, landscape, environment, and community.\u00a0 They debated how the sector might better bridge its diverse interests and expertise and overcome immediate resource challenges in order to more systematically focus on the quality of the one thing that unites all, the \u2018places\u2019 that collectively they shape.<\/p>\n<p>The Big Meet was hugely constructive and concluded that the sector:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lacked a collective voice on questions of design and place quality<\/li>\n<li>Rarely had the opportunity to meet and debate in a constructive and collaborative manner<\/li>\n<li>Needed to take greater responsibility itself for leading the national debate on place quality<\/li>\n<li>Should establish an alliance as a first step to filling the leadership gap<\/li>\n<li>Should embrace a wide ranging and holistic view of place and both bottom up and top down voices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Follow discussions relating to the Big Meet on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> with the hashtag #bigmeet<\/p>\n<p>Read the discussion paper summary on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk\/planning\/research\/governance-urban-design\/mc-evaluating-cabe\/documents\/place-alliance-discussion-paper-010814\" target=\"_blank\">Bartlett UCL website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>View further documentation relating to the Place Alliance on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk\/planning\/research\/governance-urban-design\/mc-evaluating-cabe\/project-information\/the-big-meet\" target=\"_blank\">Bartlett UCL website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?s=farrell\" target=\"_blank\">IHBC newsblogs on the Farrell Review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a multi-organisation and multi-disciplinary meeting in July at University College London (UCL) to discuss the impacts of the Farrell Review and platemaking leadership in England, documents relating to the scope and context of a \u2018Place Alliance\u2019 are now available &hellip; 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