Legislation is important, because it leads to clear guidance which industry professionals can use in their day-to-day work.
We know that green spaces are a positive influence on our well-being.Studies have shown that contact with nature has a significant impact on mental health.
This is another example where multiple value drivers can be augmented in tandem; increasing diversity, improving well-being, supporting productivity and creating educational environments.. How can we reduce waste materials, and, moreover, incorporate them into the built environment, reusing plastics and other potential throwaways?.How do we look at all these things together to find the best business, aesthetic and environmental solutions?.The answer is simple and difficult.
Thinking more broadly with the widest purpose, giving the right culture and encouragement is easy for a time.Creating the space, the willingness to change, requires a great deal of energy.
There is an opportunity to work and think differently; no longer do you have to assume that working for and with the environment will push a project over budget or make it untenable..
While form might follow function, function is much more complicated today.By making it more understandable it will enable greater levels of public engagement.
In turn, it is hoped that this will result in a better decision making process and one that is more reflective of the community it will affect.. Planning, developers and bureaucracy:.It is worth noting that complex analogue processes tend to create work for people who specialise in navigating them and this, in turn, raises the barrier of entry to the uninitiated.
This impacts both the small scale developer who finds it too costly to engage with the planning process; and the domestic developer who may require a number of expensive professional consultants to extend their kitchen.. Challenges/blockers/barriers to a digital planning process.Clearly, there are technological challenges to a project such as this, but they are far from insurmountable.
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