News story: Housing design seminar: Sheffield – 3 February 2016

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Updated: Removed one presentation at the request of the manager.

Presentations from the Homes and Communities Agency’s housing design seminar held at the University of Sheffield, at 3 February 2016.

The well-attended event informed and inspired partners to deliver high quality and well-designed places and included

  • the latest national picture in terms of policy development and the use of standards
  • case studies from HCA and partners who have successfully delivered good quality new homes
  • research on parking provision within residential developments, and how to improve layouts to increase resident satisfaction
  • a focus on offsite manufacture, including several companies that are in the process of, or already delivering a variety of modular homes

Download videos and presentations:


01 – Naz Parkar – Homes and Communities Agency
(PDF, 1.48MB, 14 pages)


02 – Jane Briginshaw – Homes and Communities Agency
(PDF, 1.19MB, 17 pages)


03 – Helen Forman – Homes and Communites Agency
(PDF, 1.67MB, 18 pages)


04 – Tom Ground – L&G Homes
(PDF, 1.83MB, 19 pages)


05 – James McMillan – Modular Allianz
(PDF, 772KB, 20 pages)


06 – Oliver Novakovic – Barratt
(PDF, 848KB, 11 pages)


07 – Owen Daggett – Joseph Rowntree Foundation
(PDF, 1.81MB, 19 pages)


08 – Richard Partington – Studio Partington
(PDF, 2.15MB, 28 pages)


09 – David Roberts – Igloo
(PDF, 3.85MB, 23 pages)


10 – Cany Ash – Ash Sakula
(PDF, 9.86MB)


11 – David Rudlin – URBED
(PDF, 5.5MB, 54 pages)

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