Design Review

Design Council Cabe's Design Review service provides free expert advice on the design quality of schemes in England that will have a significant impact on their environment.

We advise on the quality of built environment schemes for London 2012 and Crossrail, and we also conduct design reviews of hundreds of proposals for new developments every year.

Our design review panels are made up of built environment experts, but the advice given is from Design Council Cabe and not the individual panel members.

 

A Design Review in progress

National Design Reviews

Design Reviews since December 2010

Design Review in progress

The Design Review process

How Design Review works

Helping local people choose good design

Affiliated design review network

Design Council Cabe is affiliated with eight independent design review panels and together we form the design review network for England

A London masterplan

London Design Review

Our London Design Review panel will offer Design Reviews to London boroughs and potential planning applicants, and will also seek to provide on-going services as well as one-off reviews

Olympic concourse illustration

2012 Olympic Games park project reviews

Reviews of proposals for new buildings and spaces associated with the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Crossrail

Crossrail Reviews

Assessments of designs for the exterior of station buildings, entrances and ticket halls, as well for other parts of the Crossrail developments

Thames Tunnel

Well-designed infrastructure schemes can leave a positive legacy and become an asset, rather than a burden on communities according to the Thames Tunnel Design Review panel

Infrastructure Reviews

Design Reviews on proposals for infrastructure developments

Studies and Articles

A selection of our views and reports

Design Review Small Grants Programme 2011-12

Design Council CABE is distributing grants to support local Design Review Panels in the emerging localism agenda and the changing planning context.

Support for Design Review

 

The Chief planners letter (2011) expresses the government's support for Design Council Cabe's design advice services.