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The Design Review Panels The elements of Stratford City’s planning approval process Frank Duffy


The work of the Stratford City Design Review Panel began on 16 June 2006. Six months earlier, in December 2005, Frank Duffy had been selected as chair of the panel by Westfield and the London borough of Newham. Six months before that appointment, on 6 July 2005, London's bid to host the 2012 Olympics had been accepted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Initially it was not at all clear what a huge


impact the 2012 Olympics would have on what was already called Stratford City. The terms of Duffy’s appointment related not to the Olympics but to a Section 106 agreement between Newham and the developer of Stratford City.


1. The site takes shape: an aerial view from March 2009


In 2006, Westfield was already constructing


its first London development in Shepherds Bush. The firm would already have been well aware of the potential of a parallel retail development in east London – one consequence of London's success with the IOC in 2005 was an acceleration of Westfield's plans as a major agent in the renewal and redevelopment of east London as a whole. Newham's Section 106 agreement for the


Stratford project had already stated that: ‘in order to achieve a consistent but dynamic response to evolving design proposals and to ensure that those proposals live up to the vision set out in the design strategy, and aspire to the achievement of new urban design of the highest quality, the developer has agreed to establish a design review panel’. The responsibility of the Stratford City Design Review Panel was to report to Newham on all architectural and urban-design aspects of the emerging project in order to: achieve design quality; encourage consensus among stakeholders about the design of the development, thereby facilitating collective decision making and


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