The Place Standard is a tool that is used to assess the quality of a place. Where we spend our time has an important effect on our lives and our wellbeing. Improving the quality of places and the opportunities we have access to can help to tackle inequalities.
Understanding the existing and potential strengths of a place can help us make good decisions and allow us to target resources to where they are needed most. This approach can deliver better results over the long term.
The Place Standard tool can also support the design and delivery of successful places, creating good-quality development where people want to live.
The Place Standard tool is not a formal way of restricting development.
In order to engage with residents and businesses of Oldham in the Local Plan, the council has determined to use an existing tool developed by Architecture and Design Scotland and NHS Scotland entitled the Place Standard tool (https://www.placestandard.scot/). This is supplementary to the Issues and Options consultation documents.
All that is required for the Place Standard Assessment for Oldham is a postcode, your gender and age range:
https://www.placestandard.scot/start/oldham-mdc-place-standard-assessment
Guidance on how the Place Standard tool works:
https://www.placestandard.scot/guide/quick
Every response will be individual and anonymised.
Completion of the Place Standard tool must take place by 5pm on 29th August 2021.
The responses will be fed into the assessment tool in order to give an overall 'spider diagram' which will help demonstrate what people think of their area and what needs to be improved.