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How to sign up to the Protocol

Who can sign up?

Any organisation or company involved in some aspect of planning, designing, building, managing or influencing New Zealand’s towns and cities, can sign up to the New Zealand Urban Design Protocol. Organisations can apply to become signatories at anytime.

What does signing up mean?

Benefits

There are numerous benefits in becoming a signatory to the Protocol. These include:

  • Exclusive access to the Urban Design Champions' Network - a valuable forum for sharing information and experience with others directly involved in urban design. This includes the champions' email newsletter updates.
  • Design champions can attend specially designed training sessions and workshops.
  • Access to the package of resources being developed to support implementation of the Protocol. For example the Urban Design Toolkit which was released in February 2006.
  • Access to the Urban Design Champions' Webspace. The webspace is a tool that allows champions and main contacts from signatory organisations to share documents, take part in informal discussions, post invitations to relevant urban design events and access publications.

Commitments

All signatories are required to develop, monitor and report on a set of actions they will undertake to implement the Protocol. The Urban Design Protocol Action Pack provides guidance on the types of actions your organisation may consider taking to reflect your commitment as a signatory to the Protocol.

Becoming a signatory will require your organisation to:

  1. Appoint a Design Champion
  2. Select and implement a set of actions to demonstrate your commitment to the Protocol
  3. Monitor and report back to the Ministry for the Environment on the implementation and outcomes of your actions, starting from August 2010

What is the process?

Any new organisation wishing to sign up to the Protocol needs to write a letter to Ministry for the Environment (MfE) confirming their commitment to the Protocol. This letter should be signed by someone authorised to represent the organisation on this matter.

The letter needs to include within it the following statement:

"I confirm that <<title of organisation>> will become a signatory to the Urban Design Protocol. <<title of organisation>> is committed to creating quality urban design and we recognise our role and responsibility in achieving this. We have appointed <<name>>, <<title>> as our urban design champion. Within three months of signing we will develop a set of actions to implement our commitment. We will submit a monitoring report every two years, starting on 31 August 2010, to the Ministry for the Environment on these actions."

Letters should be addressed to:
New Zealand Urban Design Protocol
c/o Liaison and Review Team
Ministry for the Environment
PO Box 10362
Wellington

Where do I get further information?

If your organisation is interested in becoming a signatory and you need further information, please contact the Liaison and Review Team at the Ministry for the Environment:

Email: urban.design@mfe.govt.nz

Phone:
Yvonne Weeber (04) 439 7564