About good design

Urban design is the art of making places for people. It includes the way places work and matters such as community safety, as well as how they look. It concerns the connections between people and places, movement and urban form, nature and the built fabric, and the processes for ensuring successful villages, towns and cities. Urban design is a key to creating sustainable developments and the conditions for a flourishing economic life, for the prudent use of natural resources and for social progress.

Good design can help create lively places with distinctive character; streets and public spaces that are safe, accessible, pleasant to use and human in scale; and places that inspire because of the imagination and sensitivity of their designers.

Good urban design is essential if we are to produce attractive, high quality, sustainable places in which people will want to live, work and relax. It is fundamental to our objective of an urban renaissance for Huddersfield.

Queensgate Market in Huddersfield

Conservation and design contacts

To speak to an officer about planning, conservation, trees or highways