02 - Vision
DESIGN FOR CONSENT | RIBA 2-3
Factory Futures turns capacity into a scheme that can be consented — massing, phasing and landscape tested against the planning case from week one, not assembled at the end.
Overview
Schemes rarely fail on technical grounds alone. They fail because nobody could explain them to the people deciding, or because the consent case was built around a design that was already finished. Vision treats consent as a design problem: the scheme and the argument for it develop together, so what goes to committee is coherent rather than reconciled.
Overview
Schemes rarely fail on technical grounds alone. They fail because nobody could explain them to the people deciding, or because the consent case was built around a design that was already finished. Vision treats consent as a design problem: the scheme and the argument for it develop together, so what goes to committee is coherent rather than reconciled.
A consent-ready scheme shaped around planning, place, and measurable commitments.
[01]
Capacity and option testing
Parametric studies against yield, constraints and grid, so the shortlist is evidenced rather than assumed.
[02]
Design team leadership
technical configuration and planning narrative led by the same team, so the scheme and its argument develop together.
[03]
Stakeholder engagement
municipal and community conversations opened while the scheme can still absorb negotiation.
[04]
Nature-based solutions and landscape design
Ecology, water and screening designed in, not applied afterwards as mitigation.
[05]
Whole-life carbon and lifecycle assessment
Carbon assessed at design stage, with the working available to the authority.
[06]
Consent documentation
Pre-application material, design and access statements, written by the people who designed the scheme.
A consent-ready scheme shaped around planning, place, and measurable commitments.
[01]
Capacity and option testing
Parametric studies against yield, constraints and grid, so the shortlist is evidenced rather than assumed.
[02]
Design team leadership
technical configuration and planning narrative led by the same team, so the scheme and its argument develop together.
[03]
Stakeholder engagement
municipal and community conversations opened while the scheme can still absorb negotiation.
[04]
Nature-based solutions and landscape design
Ecology, water and screening designed in, not applied afterwards as mitigation.
[05]
Whole-life carbon and lifecycle assessment
Carbon assessed at design stage, with the working available to the authority.
[06]
Consent documentation
Pre-application material, design and access statements, written by the people who designed the scheme.
[01]
Why here?
Grid, connectivity, land and regional fit. The case for this site rather than another one, made before anyone asks.
[01]
Why here?
Grid, connectivity, land and regional fit. The case for this site rather than another one, made before anyone asks.
[02]
What does it change?
Landscape, traffic, energy, water and skyline, assessed honestly, including the impacts that don't resolve.
[02]
What does it change?
Landscape, traffic, energy, water and skyline, assessed honestly, including the impacts that don't resolve.
[03]
What does it give back?
Employment, infrastructure, heat, land and regional investment, stated as commitments rather than aspirations.
[03]
What does it give back?
Employment, infrastructure, heat, land and regional investment, stated as commitments rather than aspirations.
[04]
Can it actually be built?
Phasing, deliverability and the operator behind it, with the commitments measurable after consent rather than forgotten at it.
[04]
Can it actually be built?
Phasing, deliverability and the operator behind it, with the commitments measurable after consent rather than forgotten at it.