 An RIBA south west award wining building at Exeter University in Devon; The Forum. This building benefited from design review during the design and pre-planning stage |  Design Review Panel training session carried out in Taunton and the Somerset County Cricket Ground in November 2018. The event was extremely well attended by local authority representatives, house builders and design team members |  Photograph of Exeter Quay taken by Architect and Design Review Panel Manager Jonathan Braddick. The Design Review Panel holds regular design review panel sessions at Exeter City Council |  Design Review Panel training event 2018. Jonathan Tricker, Highways Engineer, Urban Designer & Director at Phil Jones Associates, gave a talk entitled: ‘Highway Design in Placemaking’ |  The design review Panel was engaged by Willmott Dixon during the pre-application design stage of the project to help them prepare a design that would be acceptable to the local authority |
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 Photograph from a 2018 design review panel site visit carried out in Dorset in 2018. A full sit down design review panel was subsequently held in the Poole Borough Council Offices |  External visualization for a NPPF paragraph 55 (now 79) house that was presented to the design review panel. This project has subsequently gone on to achieve planning permission and is now built on site |  Design Review Panel training session carried out in Exeter, Devon in December 2017. The event was extremely well attended by local authority representatives, house builders and design team members |  A small but sensitive project in Exeter Quay; The Rockfish Restaurant has been designed by Grainge Architects who engaged with The Design Review Panel during the design & pre -application planning stage |  Pegasus Life secured planning permission through public inquiry for a Sarah Wigglesworth Architects scheme for a C2 assisted living community at The Knowle, Sidmouth, Devon. The Design Review Panel (www.designreviewpanel.co.uk) were instructed by East Devon District Council (EDDC) to provide multidisciplinary, expert, independent and impartial guidance and feedback to the local authority, applicant and design team during the pre-application design stage. |
 Photograph of Plymouth Hoe, Devon. The Design Review Panel holds regular design review panel sessions at Plymouth City Council |  Design Review Panel training session carried out in Exeter, Devon. The event was extremely well attended and incorporated a mock design review panel session and design workshop. |
Applicants may book a Design Review Panel sessions directly with the Panel nationally, for projects located anywhere across the UK, and the Panel's feedback is a material consideration in the planning process as per the NPPF.
Many local authorities across England actively welcome and promote the use of an independent design review panel process to run alongside or as part of their pre application process; in accordnace with the requiremnets of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)
If you are an applicant or local authority and you wish to also engage to work with the Design Review Panel please contact Jonathan Braddick on jb@designreviewpanel.co.uk or telephone 01395 265768
Testimonial
“Plymouth City Council is really pleased to be able to offer a Design Review Panel once again. As a Council we strongly support the design review process to ensure that quality design is put at the heart of regeneration in Plymouth. We are really looking forward to working with the new team of professionals who make up the panel and hope developers will take up the offer of having their projects reviewed by a team of independent specialists who are here to help Plymouth grow into one of Europe’s finest and most vibrant waterfront cities.” - Peter Ford - Head of Development Management, Plymouth City Council
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We offer both 'in-person' and online sessions. Site visits can be carried out 'in-person' or online using 360 degree virtual photographic tours (click here to see an example).Sessions should be booked using our online booking system.
National Design Review Panel Network
For help with booking email contact@designreviewpanel.co.uk or telephone 01395 265768
The Design Review Panel provides its independent and impartial services directly to applicants, design teams and local authorities nationally across England, including; the south west, south east, London, east, east midlands, west midlands, north west, Yorkshire & Humber and the north east.
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