| Design coding to ensure quality in Coventry |
 Whitefriars Housing and their private sector partners BKW are to use design coding to ensure the quality of new developments in Coventry’s New Deal for Communities area (known as WHEM). The redevelopment substantial areas of Wood End, Henley Green, Manor Farm and Deedmore, along with other initiatives carried out as part of the NDC programme, is intended to transform this deprived and undesirable area of the city.
Following on from the production of a masterplan, design coding is a method for specifying certain design elements to ensure a consistent quality as individual houses, streets and spaces are designed and built. Design coding has a long history with many of our most treasured historic towns being developed using the equivalent of a design code. In recent times it has been pioneered by the New Urbanist movement in the United States and has been the subject of a research programme by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) to test its effectiveness in England. MADE have been working with CABE to provide design enabling support to Whitefriars as they move from masterplan to design code. David Lock Associates have been appointed to undertake the masterplanning work. The design coding work is being supported by Advantage West Midlands. Download CABE’s report about the potential for design coding in England Have a look at the masterplan on the WHEM website here. And read CABE Design Review’s comments on it here. To find out more about our enabling service contact David Tittle This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it |
