ESP- Can we have better names?
Enabled Self-Procurement or ESP is such a horrible name for this project. Can we think of something more appealing and accessible? Maybe there is no rush for that, and maybe all ideas should be tabled, but ESP-SIM is not going to connect with anyone.
Equally, the abstraction of “Enabling Developer” needs to be given a face – or faces. For example:
CIVIC TRUST BRANCH CHAIRMAN – a local branch of the Civic Trust could take the initiative to design in the abstract the sort of housing they would like to see in their area, assuming the developable sites that are identified in an area. In that way a site purchaser would know whether objections to alternative developments were likely to be raised by the Civic Trust.
PLANNING OFFICER – planning officers could take the initiative and sketch up ideas for developing critical sites within the limits of Planning Policy Statement 3, and provide those free issue to councillors as a briefing, prior to discussions with developers.
PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBER – being braver than their planning officers, some adventurous and politically aspiring elected local authority members sitting on planning committees could work through more ambitious alternatives to the proposals for particular sites being recommended for rejection or approval. If the resultant design were self-generating by adjusting the input data in accordance with the Code for Sustainable Homes the councillor would not have to learn how to draw in a CAD package.
MR and MRS SMITH – objecting to the lack of imagination being shown by the elected membership, individuals being consulted on a neighbouring planning application could challenge some of the assumptions being made. Or, if Mr and Mrs Smith are the applicants, they could have taken the online design process so far themselves that it was acceptable as a planning submission, with the building regulation application to follow.
BUILDER – as part of the tendering process for Mr and Mrs Smith’s planning approved home, the builder takes the simulation process forward into the detailed selection of and specification of construction materials and products, presenting alternative renderings to the prospective client.
ARCHITECT – recognising that Mr and Mrs Smith could benefit from professional help, tipped off by a builder who would like to win the job based on house types and construction the architect has used before, an architect might provide a service in guiding Mr and Mrs Smith through the process of meeting the Code for Sustainable Homes. Recognising that her friend, a Civic Trust member, had already made suggestions to the planning department several years earlier, the architect guides Mr and Mrs Smith to that outline proposal.
These could all be “Enabling Developers”. But they all have realistic narratives. I suppose that is why you are looking at using Avatars…
Maybe the point is redundant, or obvious.
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