Design Excellence Policy

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Council sought comment on the Draft Design Excellence Policy and Procedures (Guidelines) through the survey below by Friday 27th Sept 2019.

Council reports on the matter will be considered at the Council Meeting of Monday 9 December 2019, starting at 7.00pm in the Willoughby Council Chambers, Level 6, 31 Victor Street, Chatswood.

The reports can be accessed on Council’s website.The report will also be available at Council’s administration building, Level 4, 31 Victor Street, Chatswood between the hours of 8.30am and 5.00pm Monday to Friday.

If you would like to address this meeting in person, please complete the Request to Address Council Meetings online form before 12 noon on 9 December 2019. Further information on Addressing Council Meetings is available at Council’s website.

Council Endorsed the Chatswood CBD Planning and Urban Design Strategy to 2036 in June 2017. A key element of this strategy is significant change to the development density within areas of the expanded CBD boundary. A requirement of the Strategy is that a “Design Excellence system be established to ensure that buildings are well designed” and that a process is put in place to achieve design excellence as an outcome.

Generally the definition of design excellence is fairly consistent across planning legislation where it is often summarised as “. . . the highest standard of architectural, urban and landscape design”

A design excellence process requires an appropriate and robust framework that is supported by a clear definition of Design Excellence and guidelines for its evaluation.

The Design Excellence Policy and Procedures (Guidelines) prescribes how design excellence will be regulated and administered.

Background

Many Local Councils have a long history of evaluating Design Excellence to raise the standard of the built environment. The City of Sydney has a thorough and tested process of delivering Design Excellence through Comparative Evaluation. This process involves a competitive stage where an independent jury assesses a number of submissions and selects a submitted design based on an agreed set of design-related selection criteria. Competitions generate a range of solutions to each design challenge, allowing for the comparative evaluation of different approaches (Source : Government Architect’s Design Excellence Competition Guidelines Draft ON EXHIBITION MAY 2018).

Comparative evaluation is a key factor in how a competition can achieve better design outcomes. It enables the relative merits of different design responses to a brief to be analysed and evaluated and ensures the chosen design can be verified as the best response.(Source : Government Architect’s Design Excellence Competition Guidelines Draft May 2018).

The Design Excellence Guidelines describe how Design Excellence may be determined through comparative evaluation of a number of independently prepared schemes (competition), or Design Excellence Review of an individual scheme.

Council sought comment on the Draft Design Excellence Policy and Procedures (Guidelines) through the survey below by Friday 27th Sept 2019.

Council reports on the matter will be considered at the Council Meeting of Monday 9 December 2019, starting at 7.00pm in the Willoughby Council Chambers, Level 6, 31 Victor Street, Chatswood.

The reports can be accessed on Council’s website.The report will also be available at Council’s administration building, Level 4, 31 Victor Street, Chatswood between the hours of 8.30am and 5.00pm Monday to Friday.

If you would like to address this meeting in person, please complete the Request to Address Council Meetings online form before 12 noon on 9 December 2019. Further information on Addressing Council Meetings is available at Council’s website.

Council Endorsed the Chatswood CBD Planning and Urban Design Strategy to 2036 in June 2017. A key element of this strategy is significant change to the development density within areas of the expanded CBD boundary. A requirement of the Strategy is that a “Design Excellence system be established to ensure that buildings are well designed” and that a process is put in place to achieve design excellence as an outcome.

Generally the definition of design excellence is fairly consistent across planning legislation where it is often summarised as “. . . the highest standard of architectural, urban and landscape design”

A design excellence process requires an appropriate and robust framework that is supported by a clear definition of Design Excellence and guidelines for its evaluation.

The Design Excellence Policy and Procedures (Guidelines) prescribes how design excellence will be regulated and administered.

Background

Many Local Councils have a long history of evaluating Design Excellence to raise the standard of the built environment. The City of Sydney has a thorough and tested process of delivering Design Excellence through Comparative Evaluation. This process involves a competitive stage where an independent jury assesses a number of submissions and selects a submitted design based on an agreed set of design-related selection criteria. Competitions generate a range of solutions to each design challenge, allowing for the comparative evaluation of different approaches (Source : Government Architect’s Design Excellence Competition Guidelines Draft ON EXHIBITION MAY 2018).

Comparative evaluation is a key factor in how a competition can achieve better design outcomes. It enables the relative merits of different design responses to a brief to be analysed and evaluated and ensures the chosen design can be verified as the best response.(Source : Government Architect’s Design Excellence Competition Guidelines Draft May 2018).

The Design Excellence Guidelines describe how Design Excellence may be determined through comparative evaluation of a number of independently prepared schemes (competition), or Design Excellence Review of an individual scheme.

Design Excellence Policy

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