Neutron 60966 اشتراک گذاری ارسال شده در 23 شهریور، ۱۳۹۰ Use the Placecheck as a means of gathering people together to create ideas and energy as to how to make improvements and protect things of value. A Placecheck can start small: with half a dozen people round a kitchen table, or a small group meeting on a street corner, or it may be a larger affair involving a programme of walkabouts and workshops. Download this page as a برای مشاهده این محتوا لطفاً ثبت نام کنید یا وارد شوید. ورود یا ثبت نام Questions to consider in initiating a local Placecheck project How might a Placecheck help here? A Placecheck can: - Provide a focus for bringing people together to work in collaboration - Identify what needs to be done to improve the place. What area should the Placecheck cover? A Placecheck can cover a street (or part of one), a neighbourhood, a town centre, or a whole district or city. The setting might be urban, suburban or a village. Who will initiate the Placecheck? The first step is for a local partnership or alliance of people with a stake in an area’s future to come together and agree to carry out a Placecheck. The initiative can come from anyone, in any organisation or sector. Who should be involved at the start of the Placecheck? There is no need to get everyone signed up at the start: people can be drawn in later to the Placecheck process and to whatever collaboration and action follows. Potential participants at the start or later may include: Businesses Community leaders Developers Development agencies Faith organisations Housing associations Landowners Local authority officers (concerned with such matters as housing, planning, urban design, conservation, economic development, neighbourhood renewal, education, community development, transport, and environmental health) Local councillors Local media Partnerships Planning, architecture and design centres Police Professional practices Residents Residents’ and tenants’ associations Schools Sustainable development (Local Agenda 21) groups Town centre management initiatives Traders Training agencies Transport operators Universities Women’s groups Youth and community groups What resources are available for carrying out the Placecheck? A Placecheck can be carried out with whatever resources are available, even if that is no more than a few people with a few hours to spare. A more ambitious Placecheck (which might follow that initial run-through) may require significant resources. These might include: People who are in a position to organize the project. Local programmes of which Placechecks can become a part. Skills such as organising, facilitating, drawing and photography. Financial support Venues Publicity What might the Placecheck lead to? People who initiate a Placecheck may have a clear idea of where it will lead to, or they may use it simply as a means of understanding the place and deciding the next step. Some Placechecks will prepare the ground for the sort of documents that councils, regeneration partnerships, developers and local communities produce to guide future development in an area. Others will be of immediate use to residents, local traders or business-folk. Here are some examples of how the Placecheck method can be used: برای مشاهده این محتوا لطفاً ثبت نام کنید یا وارد شوید. ورود یا ثبت نام برای مشاهده این محتوا لطفاً ثبت نام کنید یا وارد شوید. ورود یا ثبت نام برای مشاهده این محتوا لطفاً ثبت نام کنید یا وارد شوید. ورود یا ثبت نام The Placecheck method reflects the approach described in the ODPM/CABE design guidance By Design. What might our first Placecheck event be? Options for a first Placecheck event include: A walkabout of the area A meeting or workshop event An exhibition A questionnaire An event at a community festival A combination of more than one of these. Will a facilitator be needed to plan, organize and run the event? A facilitator is someone who is experienced in planning and running events so they run smoothly and achieve their aims. What sort of facilitator is needed will depend on the number of people involved in the event. For a large event a professional facilitator may be useful, though there are other people (including some community workers and built environment professionals) who are good at facilitating events. What expert advice (if any) do we need at this stage? What (and whether) expert advice is needed, and at what stage, will depend on the aim of the Placecheck and what the initial run-through reveals. Care should be taken to avoid professionals taking over: the point of the Placecheck is to enable a wide range of people, professionals and non-professionals, to set their own agenda. How should the Placecheck be recorded? The investigation process and the results can be recorded and presented in a variety of ways, including maps, plans, diagrams, notes, sketches, video and photographs (disposable or digital cameras are useful), audio tape, or a video camera. Participants can write directly on the Placechecklist, either the one available through this website, or one tailored to your own requirements) or write notes. It is useful for everyone (or at least one person in each small group) to be given a form to fill in at the start, with three columns: the first to note the location (a street number for example), the second for comments and the third for suggested action. Short Placecheck form - click برای مشاهده این محتوا لطفاً ثبت نام کنید یا وارد شوید. ورود یا ثبت نام to download How can we make best use of a walkabout? It is useful for the organisers to have thought in advance about how the walkabout will be organised and followed up. Break up into pairs or groups of no more than six people, and agree to meet again at a specified time (an hour is probably long enough). Each group should nominate one person to take notes (although everyone can take their own notes, as it helps to concentrate the mind). At the end of the walkabout, everyone gets together and runs through the points they have raised. One person makes a note of the main conclusions. Decide on a few things that you will try to achieve in the next seven days, and agree who will be responsible for each. Also decide on a few things that you would hope to achieve in the next year. Agree to meet again in seven days’ time (in someone’s house or office, in a community centre, or in a café or pub, for example). This will be a chance to report back on what people have done in the week since the walkabout, and to decide on the next steps: what to aim for and who to get involved. What questions should we add to the checklist? The checklist is intended to prompt you in thinking about what might be relevant to your area. There are likely to be other matters important locally that it does not cover. Think what these might be and add them to your list of priorities. What happens if different people give different answers to the questions in the checklist? Different people no doubt will give different answers to some of the questions. The checklist should help people understand each other’s points of view, and serve as a useful starting point for discussing the issues and finding common ground. The discussions should be as wide and as open as possible. The value of the Placecheck may depend on what efforts are made to involve people who might otherwise be left out. How should we use the checklist? The checklist sets out some questions it might be useful to ask. Which of them are appropriate for your circumstances is for the organisers of the Placecheck to decide. You will need to take account of the size of the area, the aim of the Placecheck, and how familiar the participants are will the sorts of concepts and issues the checklist deals with. The checklist is meant to prompt thoughts, not to be a comprehensive list of what should be considered. No doubt many of the questions will not be relevant to your circumstances. Leave them out, and concentrate on the issues that seem important. Don’t put people off with a daunting list of questions in the early stages of a project. Select a short list of questions first. Add more later if participants want to go into greater detail. The checklist is in three parts (A,B and C): start with whichever part seems to be asking questions of the right level of detail. Part A The checklist starts with three simple questions. These will get people thinking, and in some cases no more prompting will be needed. The last of those questions, ‘What needs to be improved?’, may start people wondering what the options are. Part B The second part of the checklist sets out 15 more specific questions. The first six ask who needs to be involved in changing the place for the better, and how they can be involved in achieving that. The other nine questions focus on how people use the place and experience it. These questions may be enough to draw out the information that is required. If not, the next part provides more prompts. Part C The longest part of the checklist goes more deeply into those 15 questions, listing a series of detailed questions (more than a hundred in all) under each one. This part is fairly comprehensive. It does not have to be gone through slavishly. The idea is to help you check that you have considered what issues might play a part in improving the place. Five examples of how an initial Placecheck might be carried out 1. People meet for a walkabout of a street or other local place. They ask themselves the three basic questions (Part A). They may go on to ask other questions on the checklist, either now or on a later occasion. 2. The organisers of the local Placecheck draw up their own tailor-made checklist after selecting the questions that seem most relevant and adding any more that seem important locally. This checklist is then distributed to participants in a walkabout or a meeting. The participants can also refer to the full checklist if they need more ideas. 3. A small group reads through the checklist together, answering questions that can be answered easily, ignoring those that are not relevant, and agreeing which questions need to be looked in to in more detail. 4. The organisers of the local Placecheck select ten questions from the checklist (and, if appropriate, some that may not be on the checklist but seem important locally). These are then discussed at a meeting, with the full checklist available for people to refer to if they need more prompts. 5. At a small meeting, people choose the ten questions on the checklist that seem most important to them. They compare notes and agree a list of what seem to be the most important questions to focus on. source: placecheck.info 1 لینک به دیدگاه
Neutron 60966 مالک اشتراک گذاری ارسال شده در 23 شهریور، ۱۳۹۰ to Placecheck Placecheck is a method of assessing the qualities of a place, showing what improvements are needed, and focusing people on working together to achieve them. At the centre of the method is a list of questions, the Placechecklist, which you can tailor to your particular needs. Placecheck can be used by professionals or by private individuals. You can start with just three questions 1. What do you like about the place? 2. What don't you like? 3. What needs to be improved? You can also use the Placecheck in greater depth. It is based on the very latest thinking urban design, transport planning, sustainability and community development. Its structured questions will guide you. There is a huge amount of advice available on improving streets, town centres, on urban design and regeneration, and on the protection of the countryside. So much that it would take months to read and digest. What Placecheck does is translate this guidance into questions, a Placechecklist - to which you and others provide the answers - your own answers that best suit your particular situation. The questions are set out on the Placechecklist web page, and can also be downloaded as a Word document, or obtained in printed form by sending an A4 SAE (£1 in stamps) to Urban Design Alliance, 70 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EJ. How and when to use Placecheck Use Placecheck as a means of gathering people together to create ideas and energy to make improvements and protect things of value. A Placecheck can start small: with half a dozen people round a kitchen table, or a small group meeting on a street corner; or a Placecheck can be big, contributing to a local authority's plans and strategies. On the next page you will find out more about the Placecheck method and the Placechecklist, (which can be used for practically anything), plus techniques for using Placecheck in residential streets, and in the countryside. Placecheck can be used by members of the public, parish councils, neighbourhood groups or by professionals. Credits The core Placecheck method was written by Rob Cowan and developed under a funding programme managed by Dan Bone, on behalf of the Urban Design Alliance with funding from the DTLR (now ODPM) and English Partnerships. The Placecheck for Rural Routes was produced by Robert Huxford, Wendy Otter (Countryside Agency), and John Thackray (Ramblers Association and ICE). It draws on best practice guidance for countryside access and conservation developed over many decades. The Street Placecheck system was developed by a team of volunteers including Matthew Thompson, Rob Cowan and Robert Huxford working in close association with TimeBank and BBC London. 1 لینک به دیدگاه
Neutron 60966 مالک اشتراک گذاری ارسال شده در 23 شهریور، ۱۳۹۰ Placecheck in the countryside Use these Placecheck questions if you are hoping to develop ideas for protecting or improving a country lane or village street. You can also use this Placecheck to contribute to a: Village design statement. Rights of way improvement plan. Step 1: Choose a route Each path, bridleway, lane or road is part of a wider network of routes. Think about the network of routes, how they are used, and by whom. Examples are: Tourist routes which bring trade into the community. Routes used by farm vehicles and delivery lorries. Commuter routes to nearby towns or railway stations. Routes to schools, pubs, local shops and churches. Routes for recreation/leisure purposes, such as walking the dog, evening walks, long-distance rambles, bike rides and horse riding. [*] Choose one route within that network to Placecheck. [*]Think of the route in two ways: as a route, but also as a series of places. Step 2: Placecheck Before you start, consider Who needs to be involved? How can you involve them? What resources are available? Who is in a position to make a difference? Travel the route and answer the questions 1. What do you like about the route? 2. What don’t you like? 3. What needs to be improved? Review your answers. Step 3: Implement the findings of the Placecheck. Create an action plan Action Work together to implement the action plan and try to draw more people into the project all the time Detailed questions 1. How can we make this a more valuable route? What is it used for? Who uses it? Who could use it? 2. How can we make this a more special route? Maintenance Is the route well looked after? Are there accumulations of litter or agro-industrial waste? Are fly-tips or dumped/burnt-out cars removed within one week? Are verges being damaged by vehicle over-running? Are eyesores being tackled? Are stiles maintained? Are surfaces safe and in good repair? Is drainage attended to? Magic What can be done to make the place look special? Are there valued buildings along the route? Are they well looked after? What local styles of building, hedge and field craft are there? What types of vegetation and farming can be found? Should the history of the route be marked in some way, or reflected in the way the route is managed? Can skylines, vistas or beauty spots be improved or created? 3. How can we make the route safer for people on foot, cycle or horse, or for farm and other animals? Are there opportunities to create safer conditions? Reducing the speed of traffic? Providing alternative routes? Protecting or separating other users from traffic? Is it difficult or dangerous to cross the road? 4. How can the route be made better connected, or new routes created? How can the route be better linked in with the network of routes? Safe routes to school? Safe routes to stations? Rural برای مشاهده این محتوا لطفاً ثبت نام کنید یا وارد شوید. ورود یا ثبت نام , برای مشاهده این محتوا لطفاً ثبت نام کنید یا وارد شوید. ورود یا ثبت نام or Village برای مشاهده این محتوا لطفاً ثبت نام کنید یا وارد شوید. ورود یا ثبت نام ? What are the options to improve the value of this route by making changes to other routes? For all types of users, is there a satisfactory range of: Leisure routes and circular walks – would new links increase the range of walks (for example by negotiating with land owners the creation of permissive footpaths)? Direct, safe links to shops, stations, bus stops, etc? All-season links – should some footpaths be made more easily usable in the winter? 5. How can we make the route more attractive? Reducing noise Is noise a problem, eroding tranquillity or interfering with wildlife? Can traffic speeds be reduced? Can a low-noise road surface be used? Is there room to introduce noise barriers or earth banks, without adversely affecting appearance? Are there very local problems that can be tackled – such as noise from traffic accelerating away from a tight bend? Can the volume of traffic be reduced? Are there other sources of noise that need to be tackled? Sensitive lighting Is lighting effective, attractive and energy-efficient? What does the lighting look like when seen from local viewpoints? Can shorter columns be used? Can trees be planted to screen streetlights from long-distance viewpoints? Is light pollution (and hence energy use) minimised? What impact does highway lighting have on the view? Are long distance views of the night time views of countryside marred by insensitive lighting of through-routes. Can less intrusive highway lighting be used? Does privately owned lighting contribute positively, or is it a source of light pollution? Less clutter Is there an accumulation of objects around the road that are making the place unattractive? Can unnecessary road markings be removed? Can the road be narrowed? Can the road surface be changed to a more natural-looking material – for example, local stone surface dressing? Do direction and other road signs reflect local traditions? ( برای مشاهده این محتوا لطفاً ثبت نام کنید یا وارد شوید. ورود یا ثبت نام ) Can signs and street furniture be mounted on common posts or columns? Can unnecessary signs be eliminated? Can the colour of columns be varied? Improving the look of boundaries Can the appearance of boundaries, including hedges, walls and banks, be improved by introducing more natural or traditional treatments? What are the traditional local ways of providing boundaries in fields and woodland, and within villages? If suburban-style boundaries are being introduced, why is this happening? How can people be made more aware of traditional local boundary styles? Can suburban-style close-boarded fences be removed, reduced in size, or softened in appearance by growing plants in front or over them? Are people aware that standard close-boarded fences are ineffective at reducing traffic noise, provide only a minor barrier to criminals, and prevent surveillance? Can property entrances be made more attractive or less intrusive? Rivers, rills, streams and ditches Are there any watercourses along the route? Could they add to the routes attractiveness? Are they easy to see from footpaths? Are they being managed sensitively? Buildings and gardens Is new development reinforcing the character and attractiveness of the area? Is the area covered by a village design statement? Do new buildings reflect local styles and materials? Does new development contribute to the local network of lanes and footpaths? Are excessive visibility splays at junctions and entrances destroying hedging or walling? Can the requirement for large splays be eliminated by reducing traffic speeds? Are small changes being well managed? Do gardens complement the surrounding countryside, or provide a contrast to it, for example by introducing large non-native trees and hedging? 6. How can the place better adapt to change? Changing agriculture and forestry What effect are changes in agriculture or farming having on the appearance of the local countryside? Are fields increasing in size? Are new trees being planted? Are hedges or stone walls being maintained? Are ponds being preserved or filled in? Are areas of woodland being encroached upon? Is ploughing threatening trees in fields? How could the wider landscape be improved? لینک به دیدگاه
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