National Village Design

Conference

SLANE

31 October 2008

JulianstownWhy 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 aSolution (so why bother)

Planning and Development process is not accessible for us

VDS = Help Solve a Problem

VDS = Manage a transition

19th Century

Ordnance Survey first edition

1905

20th 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

21st Century

Julianstown

But……

Local authority

Villagers

Change This

VDS