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A bold step forward in village planning
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A bold step forward in village planning
Location: Cambridgeshire
June 2004
Friday 4 June saw the launch of a groundbreaking new scheme in the village of Castor, near Peterborough. The ‘Built Environment Audit’ allows residents to assess the quality of their local built environment.
The launch was attended by local councillors, architects and representatives from environment and heritage organisations and was chaired by Sir Brian Mawhinney MP.
The Built Environment Audit has been piloted in the villages of Castor, Ailsworth and Thorney, near Peterborough. The parish councils commissioned Peterborough Environment City Trust to develop the audit methodology while the villagers conducted the surveys. It was co-funded by the parish councils with the majority of the funding coming from LHI.
The audit – which is believed to be unique to the UK – allowed villagers to undertake measurable and monitorable assessments of their local built environment to enable them to plan for future development. It was designed to allow residents to undertake the survey work – which included buildings, walls, fences and hedges - with little or no training.
Yasmin Shariff said: “The Built Environment Audit is a bold step forward in planning for the future and recognises the challenges ahead. The audit is the first step to changing the way we assess our built environment, allowing residents to inform and improve future development.
“A great deal of work has been undertake by the villagers within a small community and I hope that the process will be adopted in other towns and villages.”
PECT plans to make the audit process a national template and will launch the process to other communities around the UK.
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