Garden City Competition - created from Mind Map

Info Document http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/images/WolfsonPrize2014/wolfson%20prize%202014%20prospectus.pdf READ ME How to win….. 'How would you deliver a new Garden City which is visionary, economically viable, and popular?' Vision Economic Popular How Quality of Life is improved/ And How cost of living will be affected How proposal will improve quality of urban life How and why garden cities are the cure (or one of the cures) to the UK housing crisis Create a design language create a design language, create some definitions Talk about socially restorative places? Can this link with Claudia's / Shiyang's Disertations?? Expand / Explain the concept master plans we created, which will cover Public Spaces, Transport networks and infrastructure in the 'new city' Green infrastructure How they connect on a wider scale Benefits they provide Climate change, flood risk, water management, food supply, efficient / renewable energy, creating comfortable and attractive places to live Create Definitions How to Fund Project OK so I just read the picture and I am freaking out. I don't remember anything from my economics class back at UofI... Will look into economic models and do some research Innovative funding / financing RADICAL IDEA Agreed, you still need money to fund renovation! It states we are not to use a penny from public money, so anything from the government. Aimee offer incentives the new homes bonus for local planning authorities, CIL, and neighbourhood planning for local people. Pat Willoughby 'Planning and Delivering New Garden Cities' Long term plan Imaginative proposals for governace need money for renovation Patient investment How body developing and governing city will evolve with city and meet needs Community lead different roles How city governance should relate to other governance structures in area. Urban risk diagnostics - Plan for future Compact city How can this proposal alleviate the housing crisis in the UK? This is in response to the housing crisis, so we should address this issue and how we think our economic model will help with it. that surround a more dominant compact city "Less than one in ten properties in many parts of the UK are affordable to single house-buyers, according to the homeless charity Shelter. " -Once we make this garden city, how will we make it affordable to everyone? The Barker Review’s final report set out a range of policy recommendations for improving the functioning of the housing market:[29] Government should set out a goal for improved market affordability; additional investment to deliver additional social housing; ++++++++a Planning-gain Supplement to ensure that local communities share in the value of development;++++++++ a Regional Planning Executive to provide advice on the scale and distribution of housing required; allocation of additional land in Local Development Frameworks; a Community Infrastructure Fund to help to unlock barriers to development; and Local authorities should be allowed to “keep” the council tax receipts from new housing developments for a period of time. restoring confidence in the housing market. invest in affordable housing, improve mortgage lending, regulate private rental sector, ensuring a mixed programme of urban regeneration and new settlements strong central government leadership adequate funding mechanism for 'new' settlements (one that captures land values) building are of a high standard of design and sustainability Cities should predict environmental risk they face capacity to act scale pace of change physical geography the patron - holder of the vision the promoter - short term the partners vested long term interest Garden cities took a long time to make money focus on long term gain We don't need new funding as we are retrofitting, adapting, reconditioning, recycling / up cycling existing built form and shaping into a modern day garden city Sorry I still think we need a viable funding option. economics of reusing existing housing, retrofitting and adding on to it and making it better by rearranging the internal parts, adding on balconies and improving the surrounding landscape. I could perhaps find some case studies such as Park Hill flats and see if they have been an economic success compared to demolition and building from scratch? local planning authorities responsible for leading way, planning ahead, unlocking land, securing funding for infrastructure invest in peoples environment, 'healthy places healthy faces' (or something catchy referring to people?) reduce NHS costs, prevent ill health before it occurs examples stats : over past 50 yrs public spending on NHS has risen from 3.4% to 8.2% of GDP Canadian Public Health Association study (2012) costs 27 times more to achieve a reduction in cardiovascular mortality through clinical intervention than it does to achieve the same results through local public health spending Over the next 50 years (2062) this will rise to 20% reference : Appleby,J., Spending on health and social care over the next 50 years: Why think long term?, pl The King's Fund, London, 2013. Show how local support for new city could be secured and demonstrated Give Residents a sense of their own. Popular by putting back sense of place. How interests of local community protected Experiential mapping Reduces cost of living Show how residents be persuaded that benefits would exceed costs. they will be in control of what is happening cost estimations New city verses regeneration costs carbon costs regeneration more cost effective to environment Local decision making local empowerment - use communities local knowledge and interests to investigate how benefits of green infrastructure can be exploited in their neighbourhood Link to Experiential mapping Explained

Garden City Competition