National Village Design Conference SLANE 3 1 October 2 00 8

Julianstown Why our community wants and needs a VDS

Planning

Development

Design

Design

Stakeholders

not

Objectors

Participants

not

Observers

Problem

7.5M cars take priority over 6oo people

7,5oo,ooo

There will never be a Solution ( so why bother)

Planning and Development process is not accessible for us

VDS = Help Solve a Problem

VDS = Manage a transition

1 9 th Century

Ordnance Survey first edition

1905

2 0 th Century

Result?

Uniform set of minimum standards

No real incentive (obligation) to create truly wonderful villages

Julianstown = Commuter Village

A Commuter village …. sits in a rural area, formerly inhabited by people who worked in, or who had worked in, the village or close to it, now inhabited mainly by people who travel to work in a nearby town.

Commuters

Estates

Shopping Centres

VDS = Manage a transition

2 1 st Century

Julianstown

But……

Local authority

Villagers

Change This

VDS