This is a project based course. This will involve the application of residential planning and layout principles to the development of a housing scheme for a large housing site. Through this you will learn about urban design, site planning issues and how planners deal with the design of development in their work. You will also get an insight into the design process. You will learn some graphic, design and presentations skills. Sessions in Computer Aided Design will be available to students to develop skill in the use of this software, and students will produce their final coursework submission in CAD.

Students will then be taught the principles of valuation in order to judge the commercial viability of their schemes, and in order to understand the relationship between the form a development takes and its value to consumers and developers. Students will have to complete two forms of valuation, and learn the value of the different approaches.

• Understand urban design, site planning and residential layout principles
• explore the relevance of planning standards for amenity and highways to a given setting
• undertake a site analysis and learn how to judge the issues relevant to site development
• apply residential layout principles to a design task,
• use basic graphic skills required for formulating and presenting an appropriate development concept and scheme
• use CAD software
• use basic concepts in property development and development appraisal
• undertake a residual valuation and discounted cash flow assessment for a scheme
• write a report

The module is delivered in two interrelated parts. Part one involves completing a planning appraisal of a site and formulating a scheme. A series of lectures provide the basic ideas and advice about how to do this. CAD software is introduced and students are given time to work up a final scheme, and through tutorials, get advice as they progress to a final submission. In part two, a series of lectures introduce development valuation techniques and then a series of workshops explore how you can complete a valuation of your scheme.

• Economic appraisal and an awareness of economic issues as they effect planning related endeavours.
• Site appraisal skills from a commercial and planning perspective
• Graphic skills.
• CAD skills.
• Design awareness and formative design skills.
• Report writing.

There will be four items of coursework. There is an initial site analysis, synthesis and rough scheme for the designated site worth 20%.

Then there is a final scheme presented in detail in CAD worth 30%. Students will also complete a valuation of a scheme worth 50%.

Type of assessment

%

Contribution

Title

Duration
(if applicable)

Approx. date of Assessment

Project

20

An initial site analysis, synthesis and a rough scheme for the designated site

3 x A3 sheets

Half way through Semester One

Project

30

Final CAD scheme and explanation

1 A1 sheet

End of Semester

Project

50

Financial Valuation

2000 words

End of Semester

The design and financial evaluation parts of the module have to be passed separately.

The opportunity for reassessment in this module

If students fail either of the two parts they will be asked to resubmit the failed element to a pass standard.

Design in the planning system. Site appraisal from a planning and design perspective. Principles for designing a residential scheme. Learning from previous schemes. What to consider, draw and show examples of. Opportunities and constraints of development. Devising a rough scheme. CAD tutorials. Presenting the final submission: a review of what works and what doesn’t. Scheme tutorials.

Introduction to the valuation report. The property market; and property development as an economic activity. Participants in the development process and their motives. Developer responses to constraints on development. The stages of the development process. Introduction to valuation and appraisal: market value and development value. Basic valuation methods: comparative and investment methods. Collecting market evidence. The residual method. Criticisms of the residual valuation. Residual Valuation Workshops. The Discounted Cash Flow method. DCF valuation tutorials.

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