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Welcome

Welcome to Urban Vision.

We are a partnership between Urban Vision North Staffordshire, the architecture and urban design centre, and Urban Vision Enterprise, the community interest company.

We help communities, public bodies and national organisations make better places. To find out more about the Urban Vision partnership please click here.

	NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANNING Urban Vision specialises in neighbourhood planning. Experience in the past 12 months includes providing training for staff involved in delivering the Building Communities £800,000 national neighbourhood planning support programme developing and delivering a community engagement programme for a front-runner neighbourhood plan for Winsford providing diagnostic/advice/capacity building sessions for various local groups around the country running neighbourhood planning conferences and seminars for the RIBA, Civic Voice, Locality and other organisations *writing a Quick Guide Guide to Neighbourhood Planning for Locality - to download a copy of the Guide click here* or on the image opposite.**
St Giles, Cheadle	PUGIN BICENTENARY CELEBRATIONS The Pugin Bicentenary Celebrations is a programme of community-led projects organised and co-ordinated by Urban Vision to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of the inspirational Gothic revival architect, AWN Pugin. Urban Vision has worked with the Cheadle Tourism Group and local partners to secure the funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund West Midlands, from the Communities Mean Business Leader Programme, part of the Rural Development Programme for England, and from a group of local sponsors and supporters to create a programme of events, tours, lectures, and other communities activities featuring Pugin's legacy in North Staffordshire. For further details about the Pugin Bicentenary programme of events and activities click here.
	PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Urban Vision is delivering training for professional architects who are RIBA members and who wish to be accredited conservation architects. The training programme was developed by Urban Vision for the West Midlands region and is now being rolled out nationally. Urban Vision has also delivered neighbourhood planning training for the RIBA through the Designing New Neighbourhoods conference, and several programmes of design training for local planning authorities in North Staffordshire.
Great Wood School, Tean	SUPPORT FOR COMMUNITIES Urban Vision has provided support for communities in developing their own projects, including asset transfer, public realm improvements, and the creation of new community facilities. Examples include support for the Tean Community Hub at the former Great Wood School, the transfer of Cheadle Council Offices to the Town Council as a community facility, and the development of a scheme for public realm improvements in Biddulph town centre.
	DESIGN REVIEW PANEL Urban Vision continues to hold design review panel meetings, calling on the expert panel we have built up since 2004. The loss of public subsidy means that the Panel now meets when required, rather than every month. In 2011-12 the panel met four times to consider five schemes from across North Staffordshire. The recently adopted National Planning Policy Framework requires local authorities to have arrangements in place for local design review. To arrange a design review panel meeting please contact us. For more information on Urban Vision's design review service please click here or on the image opposite.