Site and Context AnalysisCapturing the value of a site

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Good site and

context analysis is

a crucial step in

achieving good

design in the

planning process.

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Advantages of good analysis:

− Better value

− Better environmental sustainability

− Better connectivity

− Better accessibility

− Better security

− Better health and well-being benefits

− Better sense of place

− Better cost effectiveness

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Cost/value graph

“Understanding the site and its immediate and wider context is

the basis for a meaningful and sustainable design response,

and is the responsibility of all those involved in the design

process, particularly planning applicants and their agents and

those formulating and implementing design policy and

guidance.”

TAN 12: Design (2016)

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Why is it like that?

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Mind the gap!

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Project Brief

> floor area, number of units, performance

requirements, building types and uses...

Vision

> what it will be like, what kind of place it is

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“As well as

mapping the

analysis it is

important to

consider what has

inspired you about

the site and its

context.”

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