Memorandum by Beatrice Fraenkel, Chairman,
South Liverpool Primary Care Trust (CAB 06)
I would like to make the following points to
the Select Committee regarding the role and effectiveness of CABE
in respect of CABE's relationship with other national and local
agencies.
I am the Design Champion for the City of Liverpool.
I am also an NHS Design Champion. I have been the Design Champion
since 2002. Liverpool is taking the quality of design and support
for design and the built environment very seriously indeed, and
my role is supported by the Chief Executive of the City and the
Leader of the Council. On the NHS side, we have signed up to LIFT
and will be spending over £43 million on new buildings over
the next five years. We are also likely to spend around £1.2
billion on new hospitals in the coming decade. On the Council
side we are involved with other public and private sector partners
in huge regeneration schemes including Housing market renewal
initiatives, The Grosvenor Henderson Development of the City Centre,
and major waterfront sites. The importance of smaller single buildings
must also not be underestimated.
As Design Champion am working very closely with
CABE across all the projects and the level of support and expertise
they can and do provide makes a major impact on the effectiveness
of how these schemes can and will be delivered. Having myself
been through several training schemes I have been able to bring
increased expertise back into Liverpool which has already had
a positive impact. CABE are now going to provide training for
all those individuals involved commissioning the billions of pounds
worth of buildings in Liverpool. This can only have a major impact
design quality, on the effectiveness of the environmental impact,
and best value which will be with us for a long time to come.
The guidance and support I can call upon through
CABE is essential, and the areas of expertise I will need to call
upon will increasingly be in relation to evidence based information
about best value—the relationship between design and high
value outputs—as a means of encouraging private sector investors/developers
to value spending time and/or money on design. I would like this
area to be developed further. It would also be of great value
for a "library" of private sector individuals to be
made available who have been involved in commissioning excellent
buildings who would act as champions within the private sector.
CABE is uniquely placed, if adequately resourced, to help people
like myself in making a real difference in their local areas.
Beatrice Fraenkel
Chairman
South Liverpool Primary Care Trust
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