Seminars
Seminars will run twice, at 11-30am and at 2-00pm on Day 1. Each will explore the collaborative approaches required to create good quality landscape for housing developments. Delegates are asked to select from the following.
1 Code Level 6 and the Significance of Landscape
The value of landscape is already understood in the creation of place and community, but becomes vital in the quest for zero carbon. This seminar, led by Peter Wilder, MacFarlane Wilder, Landscape Architects, will highlight the significance of landscape in helping developments to achieve code level 5/ 6 under the Code for Sustainable Homes. It will cover issues such as biodiversity, rainwater harvesting, sustainable drainage, green roofs, low embodied carbon and innovation in construction techniques required to achieve maximum points under the Code guidelines.
2 'Retrofitting' new landscape within existing housing estates
Peabody is one of the largest and most well-known housing trusts in the UK. Much of its nineteenth century housing stock has been refurbished and, as part of an extensive programme of landscape improvements, completely new schemes have been created within traditional settings. This workshop, which will be led by Mathew Frith, Landscape Regeneration Manager, Peabody Trust and Landscape Architect Noel Farrer, Farrer Huxley Associates, will examine Abbey Orchard in Victoria and Priory Gardens in King's Cross London. This will also link to one of the site visits on Friday morning.
3 New landscapes for social housing - The role of the landscape profession in delivering new housing in a
transformed environment
Broadway Malyan were appointed by Bolton at Home in September 2005 to provide landscape design services, having won an international design competition for the regeneration of five pilot estates in Bolton. Services provided have expanded dramatically from the original five pilot schemes, all with a fairly modest budget. Broadway Malyan has become a strategic partner for a far-reaching and almost uniquely ambitious programme of transformation for the borough’s entire social housing stock. The seminar, led by Eddy Fox – Head of Landscape at Broadway Malyan with support from Mark Turnbull – Bolton at Home and Patrick Berry – Director of Urbanism at Broadway Malyan ; will examine the key components of the project including environmental assessment audit, pilot schemes and the Stock Options Appraisal.
4 Tackling flood risk in the creation of new estates
Expansion of the housing stock is likely to require building on flood plains. Every new development can increase problems relating to flood risk and water shortage. The DEFRA-funded project: Long-term Initiatives for flood-risk environment (LIfE) provides integrated masterplanning, architecture and environmental solutions to areas at risk. This seminar by LDA Design and Barker and Coutts Architects presents this pioneering project.
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Housing environments for older people
The population is ageing. The immediate settings and neighbourhoods of older people’s homes and the ways in which they connect with their communities influence their physical and mental well being. This seminar will consist of two parts; an introduction to strategy and research including the findings of the Northern Architecture’s HOME project and an interactive workshop to bring forward the key ways in which landscape architects, urban designers, planners and policy makers can promote lifetime home environments and neighbourhoods to allow older people to live for as long as possible in their homes and communities of choice.The seminar will be led by landscape architect Sue Jackson of Bluespace environments, the author of the HOME report.