Issue - meetings

The Brent Placemaking Guide has been developed in order to support and advise all those whose work impacts on the design of the public realm. In advocating a greater focus on good urban design, it responds to recent government advice and best practice guidance on how to create successful places. In time, its use will improve the quality of the Public Realm in Brent. This report briefly summarises the content of the Brent Placemaking Guide and seeks the Committees approval to formally adopt the Guide as design guidance to be used by officers across the Council.

(i)         that approval be given to the Brent Placemaking Guide;

(ii)        that the Director of Environment and Neighbourhood Services, in consultation with the Director of Regeneration and Major Projects arrange a series of design workshops across council departments to ensure that the advice and guidance given in the guide is adopted and understood by all council staff whose work impacts on the design of Brent’s public realm.

The Lead Member for Highways and Transportation, Councillor J Moher, introduced the report from the Director of Environment and Neighbourhood Services which advised that the Brent Placemaking Guide had been developed in order to support and advise all those whose work impacted on the design of the public realm. Councillor Moher added that the guidance affected street users, and had been designed to also safeguard people with visual impairments.

RESOLVED:-

(i)         that approval be given to the Brent Placemaking Guide;

(ii)        that the Director of Environment and Neighbourhood Services, in consultation with the Director of Regeneration and Major Projects arrange a series of design workshops across council departments to ensure that the advice and guidance given in the guide is adopted and understood by all council staff whose work impacts on the design of Brent’s public realm.