- Simple but highly controversial proposal was to consider and plan for Merry Hill and adjoining areas as a town centre in its own right.
- The initial ADF was awarded the 1998 RTPI Award for Urban Design.
- Subsequently supported the Brierley Hill Regeneration Partnership, comprising the Council, landowners, regeneration agencies and community groups, through successive plan making stages.
- DLA translated the ADF into a detailed Implementation Strategy to underpin this process.
- Work resulted in Brierley Hill being designated as a new town centre in the 2008 Regional Spatial Strategy for the West Midlands and is now embedded in planning policy.
- DLA then assisted Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council (MBC) with preparation of an Area Action Plan, now adopted, to guide implementation of Brierley Hill town centre.
- In parallel, DLA supported Dudley MBC to produce an ADF for the regeneration of Dudley town centre, capitalising on its historic and medieval character and redefining a complementary role and function to Brierley Hill.
OTHER PROJECTS
RUGBY RADIO STATION FOR URBAN&CIVIC
Lead planners and masterplanners for the former Rugby Radio Station, now known as Houlton, with capacity for up to 6,200 homes together with schools, employment space, extensive provision for ecological enhancement, plus a full package of supporting infrastructure.
WATERBEACH, FOR URBAN&CIVIC AND SECRETARY OF STATE FOR DEFENCE
Working closely with award-winning Fletcher Priest Architects as masterplanners and a large multi-discipline team.
THURROCK GROWTH STRATEGY, FOR THURROCK COUNCIL
Retained by the Council to provide ongoing strategic planning and development advice as part of the preparation of the local plan.
STEVENAGE CENTRAL FRAMEWORK
Stevenage was the UK’s first New Town in 1946, with the New Town heritage shaping a distinctive town centre.
PEBBLE MILL, FOR CALTHORPE ESTATES
Lead consultant securing an outline planning permission to regenerate the former BBC Studio site into a new Bio Technology and Science Park with enhanced sporting facilities for community use.
OXFORD MK CAMBRIDGE ARC (O2C)
For Milton Keynes Council, Aylesbury Vale District Council, and South Northamptonshire Council
MARSTON VALLEY, FOR O&H PROPERTIES LTD
Lead masterplanners and planners for a series of new communities of up to 5,000 homes, 30 hectares of employment land, and new parklands incorporating 17 hectares of formal open space.
LANGLEY, FOR BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL
Lead masterplanners of an emerging urban extension on a strategic land release to the north east of Birmingham.
HAMPTON, FOR O&H PROPERTIES LTD
Masterplanning and implementation of a new community on the southern edge of Peterborough since 1998.
CRANBROOK, FOR HALLAM LAND MANAGEMENT, PERSIMMON HOMES & TAYLOR WIMPEY
Masterplanning and delivering a new community to the east of Exeter for 3,500 dwellings and subsequently the future expansion for a further 4,000 dwellings.