Development Advisory Panel
Improving accessibility across the district
The Development Advisory Panel is a panel of experienced individuals from various sectors of the community who can offer support to designers, architects or local authority officers in achieving accessible and inclusive services to local residents and visitors to the district wherever possible.
70% of panel members have direct experience of disability. All have an established track record and/or professional role in accessibility.
Representation
Panel representatives offer expertise in:
- Housing
- Transport
- Construction
- Arts and Culture
- The visual environment
- The accoustic and communication environment
- Historic settings
- Development Control
- Building Control
Ethos
The panel's ethos is to work collaboratively with statutory bodies and local authorities and it tends to look at strategic issues to maximise sustainable impact through influencing policy and procedures.
Projects and initiatives
The panel has been involved in various project and initiatives.
- Disabled parking in Shopmobility at Whitefriars extended to 3 hours free-parking
- Changes to plans for the redesign of the Canterbury Museum reception area
- Late stage input to the design on the riverside and Toddlers Cove play project
- Consultation with the Marlowe Theatre project, the Herne Bay regeneration project, Collyer Fergusson Hall project, Canterbury Christchurch University students accomodation plans.
Role
The role of the panel is still developing and occasionally the panel is involved with site visits and post-commissioning reviews. Membership is limited to preserve focus and is by invitation only.
