Who is it for?
The aim of City Centre Urban Design (CCUDS) is to provide a working tool which can be used to encourage good distinctive design proposals appropriate to Leeds City Centre. It is expected that CCUDS will be used by architects, planners, landscape architects, engineers, artists, surveyors, developers, interest groups and members of the public.
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City Centre Urban Design Strategy will help to :
- Provide background to the issues of 'urban design'
- Explain policies
- Provide principles
- Examine strategic issues
- Explore character areas
- Locate appropriate sites for development
- Imply development opportunities
- Identify places/features in need of improvement
- Explore programme and audit techniques for an urban design strategy
- Provide some good practice examples
- Express the wealth of skills of designers (past and present)
- Appoint suitable design/development teams
Study areas
There are nine study area analyses which examine the urban design issues in more detail. The nine Study Areas are based on the quarters of Leeds city centre, set out in the modified RDUDP. These quarters are implied by the predominant land use which currently exists, giving each area its unique character of buildings, spaces, movement patterns and development pressures. Each area is shown over two double pages.
Case studies
Eight case studies are set out which express some of the urban design principles established in this document.
These range from small scale intervention to larger master planning examples.
Who by?
This document has been produced in partnership, involving an inter-departmental multi-disciplinary team and a number of key local consultees.
Local professional and interest groups such as, Leeds Architecture and Design Initiative, Advisory Design Forum, Leeds Civic Trust, Chamber of Commerce, Victorian Society (West Yorkshire Group) and the Urban Design Alliance (Yorkshire Region) have been consulted and some were actively involved.