Delivering Design Quality is a project managed by Transform South Yorkshire, which helps developers and builders to deliver good design and quality schemes to South Yorkshire's Housing Market and Renewal (HMR) areas.
The DDQ programme is sponsored by a partnership between Transform South Yorkshire, the Home Builders Federation (HBF), the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) and the four South Yorkshire local authorities (Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield).
DDQ will offer practical and financial support to house-builders and developers in the Pathfinder who are committed to improving their design quality standards. Our aim is for all new housing developments to achieve Building for Life standards and for the industry in South Yorkshire to be recognised as market leaders in residential design quality.
DDQ will aim to assist the local authorities in better developing a robust and sustainable design agenda, and to raise awareness of the constraints facing development industry. DDQ will help with achieving a more efficient, effective and predictable planning process.
The project will also aim to enable consumers to better understand the benefits of a well-designed home and environment.
Transform South Yorkshire is providing FREE OF CHARGE access to technical expertise, through the Transform South Yorkshire Home Builders Advisory Panel.
Home-builders and developers participating in the DDQ programme will benefit from the following:
Transform South Yorkshire is establishing a Design Enabling Panel to provide support to local authority and key stakeholders in addressing how their organisations can best deliver the quality residential design agenda.
The panel will offer support for the development of effective and inclusive design processes and strategic policy in all areas affecting the creation for more sustainable and successful neighbourhoods.
An all-new DDQ website will be launching during Spring 2009. The new site will contain all the information and resources that consumers, developers and legislators need, made easier to find and use.
Transform South Yorkshire is establishing a third design panel of talented individuals who are passionate about improving the quality of the built environment.