By David Orr, on August 31st, 2024%
I have been working with Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead on their Supplementary Planning Document for Ascot that is shaping a number of development sites around the main street. My input has specifically been on providing design principles for how the High Street can be improved during the plan period to justly transition . . . → Read More: Ascot village centre
By David Orr, on August 31st, 2024%
I assisted Rummey Design as urban design consultant on this next generation refresh plan for this successful science park on the edge of the city of Southampton. The campus sits around the old Chilworth Manor hotel and its woodlands, and borders the M27 motorway to the south. The masterplan addresses the future of the . . . → Read More: University of Southampton Science Park masterplan
By David Orr, on April 23rd, 2022%
I am delighted to be appointed by Fowey Town Council to reimagine the strand of main streets and spaces through this wonderful South Cornwall town. We accept the challenge of making a plan for Fowey to be great place to live and visit for the future, and not only viewed from a boat. We . . . → Read More: Fowey town centre plan
By David Orr, on February 19th, 2021%
David Orr has been assisting Rummey Design since 2014 on proposals for a sustainable large settlement of 3500 homes on the old WW2 airfield at Bourn in Cambridgeshire. I am delighted this has been approved for outline planning by South Cambridgeshire District Council today, 19 February 2021. The project required a huge effort to . . . → Read More: Bourn community given go ahead
By David Orr, on November 15th, 2020%
Pool sits at the centre of Cornwall’s tin and copper mining district. The last decade or so has seen Regeneration plans come and go, some successfully and some thwarted, either by market changes or the Swiss cheese that is the ground beneath. I am pleased to have been appointed by Cornwall Council as part . . . → Read More: Pool Vision Framework
By David Orr, on November 13th, 2020%
I’m delighted to be appointed as a High Streets Task Force Expert with The High Streets Task Force I am looking forward to being part of this national effort and supporting local authorities and communities to transform their high streets.Read more > www.highstreetstaskforce.org.ukSee also @HighStreetsTF
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By David Orr, on April 13th, 2020%
We have been appointed to support Rummey Environmental and Phil Jones Associates with the transport and environmental assessment of a proposed urban extension to Harlow Garden Town. We are reviewing the landscape, heritage, natural environment and townscape effects of various access route (and route typology) options in order to advise the local planning authorities . . . → Read More: Harlow Garden Town
By David Orr, on October 16th, 2013% I have been assisting the Barne Barton Neighbourhood Forum in West Plymouth in developing their Neighbourhood Plan that is emerging from a series of workshops run with Architecture Centre Devon & Cornwall earlier in the year. The community has a strong identity and specific local issues to deal with including poor connections to the city, . . . → Read More: Barne Barton Neighbourhood Plan
By David Orr, on January 25th, 2013% Mark’s Gate is a 1960s housing estate near Romford on the edge of greenbelt and isolated from Chadwell Heath and Romford town centre by the A12 Eastway. It has a vibrant mixed community with a shopping parade, community facilities and schools at its centre. The parish church is looking to redevelop their site and offer . . . → Read More: Mark’s Gate regeneration
By David Orr, on January 3rd, 2013% I recently completed a study into the potential urban design parameters for a new development on Torquay harbour-side in Devon. I was asked by local architects Kay Elliott to support their design team in discussions with the council, English Heritage and their client over the design. There was a need to formulate a robust and . . . → Read More: Shaping Torquay
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