28 Mar 2025
Place Services are proud to announce that the Essex New School Design Guidance document is now live on The Essex Design Guide website!
The guidance is structured as a series of 12 Principles which can be flexibly applied in all work associated with the planning of new schools. It seeks to be well grounded in local and national planning policy, including the National Design Guide to incorporate the ten characteristics of well-designed places, other sections of the Essex Design Guide, as well as the Department for Education specifications.
It also gives advice to consult the Essex Quality Review Panel (EQRP) at an early stage to encourage high-quality design, sustainability, environmental infrastructure and community coherence within Essex and to ensure high- quality, contextual, legible, well-connected sustainable school design. The EQRP was established in 2019 as the second phase to the Essex Design Guides refresh in 2018, and is run and managed on behalf of the Essex Planning Officers Association (EPOA) by Place Services.
We would like to thank all those who have been involved in the production of this guidance and the associated consultation.
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