 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 |  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 |
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 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. |
To book, click on the Panel date you would like from the list below, or click on the relevant red button below:-
As well as online 90 minute sesisons on pre-set dates, we also offer longer in-person and online design review panel sessions on bespoke dates. 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.
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.
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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1.5 hour Sessions can be booked on any of the avilable dates, a minimum of 14 days in advance with payment.
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Bookings are confirmed upon receipt of cleared funds payment, and payments received are non-refundable.
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Information to be reviewed by the Panel is to be provided to the Design Review Panel using the blue 'Upload Files' button above, no later than 7 days in advance of the booked session date.
The pre-set Design Review Panel dates are listed on this page
If you require a different date that is not on the list opposite, ad-hoc sessions can be booked by clicking here
or by emailing:-contact@designreviewpanel.co.uk
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A remote Desktop Review service is also available at any time. To book a Desktop Review click here.