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Open space strategies

Best practice guidance

CABE is the government’s advisor

on architecture, urban design

and public space. As a public

body, we encourage policymakers

to create places that work for

people. We help local planners

apply national design policy and

advise developers and architects,

persuading them to put people’s

needs first. We show public

sector clients how to commission

projects that meet the needs

of their users. And we seek to

inspire the public to demand

more from their buildings and

spaces. Advising, influencing

and inspiring, we work to create

well-designed, welcoming places.

CABE Space is a specialist

unit within CABE that aims to

bring excellence to the design,

management and maintenance

of parks and public space in our

towns and cities.

Published in 2009 by the

Commission for Architecture

and the Built Environment and

the Greater London Authority.

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Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Why produce an open space strategy?

Scope of strategy

Who prepares it?

Policy context

1 Prepare

Stage 1: Prepare the scoping study and brief

Stage 2: Review the context

Stage 3: Understand the supply

Stage 4: Understand demand and need

Stage 5: Analyse and identify objectives

Stage 6: Prepare the strategy and action plan

2 Deliver

3 Monitor and review

Appendices

A References

B Open space in national planning policy

C Funding sources

D Glossary of key terms

E Useful contacts

F Consultation respondents and acknowledgements

Case studies

Thurrock

Walsall

Bristol

Blackburn with Darwen

Tower Hamlets

Bournemouth

Torbay

Darlington

Foreword

One of the principal aims of any public authority is to improve quality

of life. Hard to measure, yet universally understood, it is about placing

greater importance on improving the experience of living in our cities,

towns and villages.

Wherever we live, our neighbourhood should be somewhere we want to

be and are happy to belong to. Our open spaces are key to this, meeting

a range of social, environmental and health beneits as well as making

areas more attractive. That is why creating, protecting and enhancing

these spaces is such a vital part of making neighbourhoods more

attractive and more joyful places in which to live.

We also have to recognise that, important as the immediate beneits are to

communities, the decisions we make about the places where we work and

live today will long outlast us. Good, proactive management of our open

spaces today will leave a real legacy for those who come after us.

Our approach should be to integrate open spaces into the heart of our

physical environment, through both partnership working and effective

community involvement. Our design and planning policies should seek to

create an urban realm that places great importance on leisure and creativity.

Creating and maintaining high-quality open spaces is central to this idea.

To achieve this requires joined-up thinking and working across occupations

and organisations. We are therefore delighted that CABE Space and the

Greater London Authority have pooled their resources and knowledge to

produce this guide. We are conident that it will help all those creating

neighbourhoods to make them vibrant, healthy and sustainable places

as well as lively and beautiful places in which to live.

Boris Johnson

Baroness Andrews

Mayor of London

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Communities and Local Government

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