Planning for Places: The potential for the Ministerial Advisory Group (MAG) to assist the capacity for good design in the local government core strategies of new district council areas.

Emily Smyth

Planning for Places: The potential for the Ministerial Advisory Group (MAG) to assist the capacity for good design in the local government core strategies of new district council areas.

Emily Smyth

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I was invited by the MAG to present this paper at their Symposium “Planning for Places” at the Navan Centre, Armagh, 7 September 2010. The Ministerial Advisory Group (MAG) exists to champion the provision and maintenance of the highest standards of design quality in architecture and the built environment in Northern Ireland. The MAG’s main roles are to advise the DCAL Minister on the development and implementation of the Architecture and Built Environment Policy; review progress on certain key priorities as identified by MAG; advise Government on policy implementation; conduct Design Reviews of pre and post planning applications; and implement those actions set out in the Policy. The MAG also contributes its expertise in the areas of advocacy, communication and education. I am one of 8 Members of the MAG. One matter that the MAG has identified for consideration is the capacity of government to create valued places through good design. The MAG has recognised an opportunity in the proposed Reform of Public Administration (RPA) in Northern Ireland, which will see increased responsibilities of local governance. This symposium specifically aimed to stimulate consideration of design in the core strategies of local government in Northern Ireland following RPA.The MAG believes that by working with councils it can raise expectations for good design in buildings and places across Northern Ireland. Delegates included senior council and government officials, community representatives and professionals. Speakers included local and national experts, including CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) which has been working with English local authorities to see how design quality can best be embedded in emerging strategies.The following is taken from the Chair’s report of the Symposium: Several themes recurred throughout the symposium: people and their “involvement” or lack of it, (“people make places”); “communities” and how to define them; finding and securing the “essence” of places; the need for both Plan-making and Implementation to include all aspects of the relevant places (“joined-upness”); the importance of conservation in all its forms. Several speakers drew attention to the importance of place AND of learning about the places from local people. Kathy MacEwan (CABE) presented how the people of Tower Hamlets defined their “areas of belonging”, and right at the end of the meeting Emily Smyth reminded us that essence comprises both tangible measurable things and intangibles, which only local people can tell us about. Armagh has surely more intangibles than most places so it was a good place to learn this truth.

Original language	English
Publisher	Ministerial Advisory Group for Architecture and the Built Environment for Northern Ireland
Number of pages	25
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 7 Sept 2010

Bibliographical note

Reference text: CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) (2009), Planning for places Delivering good design through core strategies, CABE: London.

CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) (2010) Ordinary Places, CABE: London

Council of Europe (2000) The European Landscape convention, Council of Europe, Florence, http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/en/Treaties/Html/176.htm

Countryside Agency & Scottish Natural Heritage (2002) Making sense of place, Landscape character assessment, Summary guidance for England and Scotland

DCAL (Department of Culture Arts and Leisure) (2006) Architecture and the Built Environment for Northern Ireland, Architecture and Built Environment Policy, DCAL: Belfast

Design Commission for Wales (2010) No Place Like Home, DCfW: Wales

ERM (Environmental Resources Management) (2000) Northern Ireland Landscape Character Assessment 2000: an appreciation and analysis of the landscapes of the region, Corporate Document Services: Leeds

Gillespie, R, & Royle, S (2007) Belfast, 1600-1900, The making of the modern city, Royal Irish Academy: Dublin

Homes and Communities Agency (2010) Place Spotlight, http://www.homesandcommunities.co.uk/place-spotlight?page_id=&page=1, accessed May 2010

Kirby, V (2009) Character and Convention: Natural England’s role in implementing the European Landscape Convention in The Irish Landscape 2009: looking around, looking ahead, Heritage Council, Ireland
MAG (Ministerial Advisory Group for Architecture and the Built Environment in Northern Ireland) (2009a) Raising Expectations, MAG, Belfast

NIEA (Northern Ireland Environment Agency) (2007), Protecting Landscapes, and Landscape Character Areas in Landscape, http://www.doeni.gov.uk/niea/land-home/landscape_home.htm, accessed May 2010

Norberg-Schulz, C (1980), Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture, Academy Editions

Planning Service (2010), Conservation Areas, http://www.planningni.gov.uk/index/policy/supplementary_guidance.htm, accessed May 2010

PPS, Project for Public Spaces (2010) Place Diagram, PPS: New York, http://www.pps.org/

Swanick, C and Land Use Consultants (2002) Landscape Character Assessment: Guidance for England and Scotland, Countryside Agency and Scottish Natural Heritage

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