‘With the actual store rooms themselves,’ she says, ‘they’ve really thought about it.’.

Making these decisions is why people become planners in the first place..If architects are using 3D models, why would planners use 2D drawings and not those models?

When daylight tracking is measurable and predictable (if complex), why would planners be checking the architects’ sums, armed with a calculator, when a ‘digital app’ could do this more efficiently?Why are planners (and the public) expected to engage with idealised and unrealistic CGI images of proposed developments that they cannot adjust, interrogate or control?Digitisation would make it possible to view proposed developments in their context, that any user could control and view from any angle.. Planning applications and the public:.

The more accessible a planning application can be made, the easier it can be interpreted.By making it more understandable it will enable greater levels of public engagement.

In turn, it is hoped that this will result in a better decision making process and one that is more reflective of the community it will affect.. Planning, developers and bureaucracy:.

It is worth noting that complex analogue processes tend to create work for people who specialise in navigating them and this, in turn, raises the barrier of entry to the uninitiated.There is much more to it than that.

Design that is fully rooted in a Design to Value methodology should also consider criteria such as the expected lifetime of components and materials, as well as aspects such as location, climate change, or the wellbeing of the workforce.. Maximising the value of an asset is finding the right balance of a wide range of criteria.. As an approach, Design to Value (DtV) is well understood and applied in the manufacturing industries, and its application is richly informative and highly effective for construction.It leads to objective analysis of every aspect of a process, every element of resource requirement, energy consumption, knowledge, and cost.

It leads to testing of the value parameters each of these elements is being measured against.It is rigorous, logical and data-driven.. Design to Value may lead to a solution that is very different to the one initially conceived, but it will be a solution that is fully thought through, appropriate and complete.