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Creating successful masterplans

a guide for clients

Updated version of our guide to masterplanning, demonstrating how a clear and considered masterplan can contribute to the physical, social and economic revival of places.

Successful masterplanning is the key to creating great places. A clear, considered masterplan developed by professionals and local people together can lead to the physical, social and economic revival of places. Creating successful masterplans sets out advice based on the experience of CABE's enabling and design review programmes on topics such as:

What masterplanning is
How masterplans fit into the development process
Stages of preparation: the strategic framework, baseline data, urban design analysis, characterisation, the outline business case
Getting the brief right
Consulting and communicating with stakeholders
The roles of the client team and masterplanning team
What to expect in a masterplanning document
Testing a masterplan
How masterplans relate to design quality and architecture
Implementation strategies
Competitive selection
EU procedures
masterplanning / developer competitions

Originally published in March 2004, this new edition of the full publication was published on 24 April 2008 and can be downloaded below.