The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, featuring this week an HS2 independent design panel double-up, as the scaled-back Euston Station is supported and a search for 15 new members has commenced.
… HS2 has been told to increase its oversite development plans…
… search for 15 new members to refresh its thinking…
AJ reports:
High Speed 2’s (HS2) Independent Design Panel has supported changes at Euston Station which would see plans for the Grimshaw-designed terminus scaled back….
Plans for the reduction in size first emerged last year when Transport for London (TfL) revealed it had formally ordered a redesign following recommendations made in the Oakervee review.
While the station itself will be shrunk – with the number of platforms dropping from 11 to 10 – HS2 has been told to increase its oversite development plans. It is also thought the redevelopment could also be delivered in a single stage rather than the previously proposed two-phase design.
…. ‘The panel welcomes this change in the governance of plans for Euston, as a means of maximising public benefits, including the regeneration of the area, from the public’s investment…..
… Meanwhile, separately, HS2’s independent design panel has begun a search for 15 new members to refresh its thinking and make it more representative of the UK population.
In a recent interview with the AJ, Morgan said: ‘We’ve been going for five years and haven’t had a big refresh since we started. We want to increase the diversity of the panel and also encourage people who wouldn’t necessarily be involved in big infrastructure projects to get involved and act as a critical friend [to HS2]….
On the search for new members, UKREiiF writes:
The panel that scrutinises design issues surrounding HS2 is looking for new members….
… ‘We are looking for people whose practical experience will add to the panel’s expertise and make a positive and thoughtful contribution to the exciting – and sometimes challenging – topics and projects ahead.’…
The areas of expertise that are of particular interest are:
- Architecture
- Sustainability
- Landscape architecture
- Masterplanning and urban design
- Civil and structural engineering
- Railway operations
- Commercial development
- Inclusive design
See the UKREiiF’s report
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