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Welcome to the New Scottish House Project |
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Access to good
quality affordable housing, be it bought or leased, should be a fundamental
right in all area’s of Europe. How we assess good design quality is a
difficult subject. Aberdeenshire
Council, working in partnership with both The Robert Gordon University and
other organisations, and with funding from the European Social Fund [ESF], have
attempted to establish a set of ‘design values’ to assist in making this
process more transparent, fair and inclusive.
As well as creating a methodology to aid planning decisions in relation
to design quality, progress has been made with the development of an online
assessment tool to guide architects, planners and developers as to what
constitutes ‘best design practice’. This
whole body of work undertaken by the partnership has become, generally,
known as ‘The New Scottish House Project’.
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