Cabe and RIBA plan review of 20,000 schemes a year

摘要

The UK's leading architecture and planning bodies are plotting a massive expansion of the design review programme to clamp down on poor design on large schemes. The leaders of the RIBA, Cabe, the Royal Town Planning Institute and the Landscape Institute are proposing a significant reform of the way the planning system assesses the quality of designs. At the moment, design review panels set up by Cabe analyse about 500 planning applications a year to see if they meet good design standards. Cabe set up this process in 1999. Since then, the 30 panellists have made criticisms of several large schemes, including Berkeley Homes' Woolwich Arsenal development, which have led to design changes. However, the bodies are considering a process in which all major applications would be reviewed as standard. This could involve as many as 20,000 applications a year. It is not yet decided if Cabe would run the reviews or merely set standards for local review panels. Sunand Prasad, the president of the RIBA, said the groups were considering whether a statutory role for design review within the planning process was needed.