Transform South Yorkshire
The Transform South Yorkshire housing market renewal pathfinder covers Sheffield, Doncaster, Barnsley and Rotherham.
The South Yorkshire pathfinder has the largest geographic area and the most dwellings of all of the pathfinders. It encompasses more than 130,000 dwellings and almost 300,000 residents.
This area of South Yorkshire has been affected by industrial decline and concentrated deprivation. Significant outward migration of people between the ages of 25 and 44 has resulted in a high proportion of pensioner-only households.
Transform South Yorkshire is introducing greater diversity in housing choices in order to support and take advantage of changing economic needs. The pathfinder is also improving housing quality to give areas a clear sense of place and function.
Delivering Design Quality
Delivering Design Quality is a project managed by Transform South Yorkshire, which helps developers and builders to deliver good design and quality schemes to South Yorkshire's Housing Market and Renewal (HMR), Green Corridor and Growth Point areas.
The DDQ programme is sponsored by a partnership between Transform South Yorkshire (TSY), the Home Builders Federation (HBF), the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), the four South Yorkshire local authorities (Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield) and Wakefield in West Yorkshire.
DDQ offers practical and financial support to house-builders and developers in the wider TSY area who are committed to improving their design quality standards.
The programme aims to assist the local authorities in better developing a robust and sustainable design agenda, and to raise awareness of the constraints facing development industry. DDQ will help with achieving a more efficient, effective and predictable planning process and aim to enable consumers to better understand the benefits of a well-designed home and environment.
Contact details
Sue Paviour
Transform South Yorkshire
Tel: 01142 734639
sue.paviour@sheffield.gov.uk
Ruth Rovira-Wilde
ruth.rovira@sheffield.gov.uk
Last updated: 28 August 2009