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Excellence Framework - coming soon!

The Inspire East Excellence Framework is currently under development and will be available through this site soon. 



The Excellence Framework is a practical web based tool which helps to define 'excellence' in sustainable communities in the East of England.

It will provide a set of standards to:

  • help raise aspirations to improve the quality of development and regeneration in the region
  • encourage sustainable communities practitioners to look holistically at quality of place.

The Framework is based on the eight components of a sustainable community. It allows you to assess the quality of a whole range of sustainable communities projects - urban and rural; built environment and community regeneration. The standards help you to develop excellent processes as well as high quality finished projects.

You can use the Excellence Framework in the following ways:

  • as a signposting tool - directing you to the most appropriate  sources of advice and information
  • to look at case studies and best practice examples - from the East of England and beyond
  • to obtain guidance in developing policies relating to all aspects of sustainable communities
  • to appraise the quality of sustainable communities projects e.g. for external funding
  • to evaluate the success of projects.

Inspire East will use the tool to:

  • set standards and benchmarks for the Design Review and Enabling Services
  • assess projects for awards and its case study database.

For further information on the Excellence Framework or to test your project, please contact us.