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What is Urban Design?
- Urban Design is the art of making quality places for people. It involves the way that places function, how safe and attractive they are, and especially how they look and are interpreted.
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Urban Design ...'concerns the connections between people and places, movement and urban form, nature and the built fabric, and the processes for ensuring successful villages, towns and cities' CABE (2000 By Design p8).
Who are we?
The Stafford Borough Council Urban Design Team is part of the wider Forward Plans team in the Planning and Engineering Department. We provide planning and urban design advice and guidance to many other sections within the Council and work directly with our external links and contacts at a more strategic level. We have received the 'Investors in People Award'.
Our main objectives are to promote places and spaces in Stafford Borough that are :
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Accessible
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Safe
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Well designed
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Attractive
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Sustainable
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Vibrant