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RIBA North West believes in working with partners wherever appropriate. We believe that a joined-up approach helps engage with a wider audience and ensure maximum output from limited resources. Recent initiatives include Architecture Week 2007, which was delivered in partnership with the Arts Council England and the Architecture Centre Network. Individual events were organized in partnership with venues and organisations including Liverpool Biennial, Cube and FACT.

 

Places Matter!

Places Matter! is a major new programme with RENEW Northwest, the Regional Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Communities, to drive up the quality of place making in the region. 

The programme, which facilitates improved decision making and commissioning skills, as well as increased awareness of, and expectations for, high quality design amongst clients and developers, consists of a number of complementary strands including:

 

• a regional Design Review Panel service
• research into the economic value of urban design
• a schools education programme
• a support and training network for public sector champions and decision makers
• a public realm good practice guide.

 

Pan-professional CPD

Regional representatives of the built environment professionals signed a pan-professional Memorandum of Understanding. The move followed research funded by RIBA and RENEW Northwest and is aimed at minimizing silo thinking between the professionals. Following on from this several success events have been organized between several of the professional institutes.