Draft Housing Design Guide
This guide, commissioned by the LDA's Design for London, sets out the minimum design requirements that the Mayor will expect
for all new publicly funded homes, including new minimum standards in a number of key policy areas such as space standards.
In the first instance, this will apply to developments involving LDA funding or land, and the Mayor is working closely with the new Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) to arrive at a unified set of standards for London. The Mayor will also be working with other public sector and private sector developers to encourage the take up of these standards.
The intention is to help simplify and harmonise the current range of standards and to provide consistency and clarity about what is expected in London from the outset of a development. Rather than setting out over-detailed specification, the guide prioritises the key design issues that will have the greatest impact on the strategic choices that must be made early on in a project, which are key to delivering high quality design but are more difficult to change at a later stage.
Alongside the consultation period, a cost/benefit impact study will be undertaken on the standards set out within the draft guide to understand the costs and benefits in greater detail as well as their cumulative cost and wider scheme impacts.
During this period the Mayor will continue to work with partners, particularly the HCA through the London HCA Board, to ensure continuity with their work on their national standards to arrive at a unified set of standards for London.
Following the consultation period, the guide will be revised in the light of comments received and the outcomes of the cost/value study. It is anticipated that the final guide will be published in April 2010.
The event is not currently available for consultation.