Guidance Notes and Best Practice Guides
EHRC: A new guide to the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled Persons (UNCRDP) has been published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission. The Commission's guide is intended to help disabled people to know what their rights are and how to use them. It will help people to challenge injustices and improve services for themselves & others and will help organisations understand what their responsibilities are.
The Convention, which was signed by the UK Government last year, sets out disabled peoples basic rights in one place. It covers health, education, employment, access to justice, personal security, independent living and access to information.
The UN convention also describes what the Government has agreed to do to make these rights real. It has until July 2011 to report back to the UN on its progress on this agreement. The Commission's guide also sets out how organisations can report to the UN.
Press release ~ EHRC Guide ~ Monitoring the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Guidance for Human Rights Monitors ~ UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN site) ~ UN Convention in plain language (UN site) ~ UN Convention in Easy Read format
Newswire - CABE: The coalition government's approach to localism marks a fundamental shift in the way to approach good design & ‘placemaking’, so councillors need to be better prepared to make decisions about urban design.
CABE has published online practical support for councillors using their power to influence the quality of their local area. Advice is offered to leaders & mayors; executive members & portfolio holders; committee members & ward councillors, to help them deliver good design and great places.
The new online resource includes 7 principles of urban design which can be used to decide whether a proposal is any good.
The new online resource includes 7 principles of urban design which can be used to decide whether a proposal is any good.
Newswire - CABE: People are travelling much further nowadays in their daily lives, for work, for shopping & for leisure. This means that housing & job markets now operate at a larger scale and hospitals & higher education institutions also have bigger catchment areas. All this affects the way in which places should be planned & designed.
CABE has spent 2 years trialling a flexible framework, Getting the big picture right, which advises a new approach to large scale urban design, with more working across local authority boundary ‘red lines’ on a map. Housing and job markets do not observe those red lines, nor do people notice when they are crossing them in the car or on the train.
Press release ~ Getting the big picture right ~ Large scale urban design ~ Getting the big picture right
WAG: Planning guidance (Technical Advice Note 6 (TAN 6) – Planning for Sustainable Rural Communities) that is intended to boost the rural economy and increase the provision of affordable housing has been launched by Environment Minister, Jane Davidson.
The guidance will make it easier for businesses to set up in rural areas and should help enterprises already located in the countryside to grow. It relaxes control over development in the countryside, whilst still ensuring that a measured approach is taken.
Another benefit of the guidance is that it will make it easier for farmers to build a new home on their land, so that they can pass their business on to a younger person, whilst continuing to live on the farm.
Another benefit of the guidance is that it will make it easier for farmers to build a new home on their land, so that they can pass their business on to a younger person, whilst continuing to live on the farm.
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