Rochdale

VU.CITY Rochdale is a stunning 3D landscape that’s accurate to within 15cm.

Users of our Rochdale model are making better, faster decisions by exploring potential massing and designs in context to opportunities and constraints. Now all stakeholders can collaborate with VU.CITY Rochdale on solutions for smarter decisions and project success.

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MODELLED TO 15CM ACCURACY

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TREES, ACCURATE TO HEIGHT & CANOPY

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MODELLED TO 15CM ACCURACY

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VU.CITY Rochdale For You

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VU.CITY has established relationships with many local authorities in the ever growing Greater Manchester region, including Rochdale Borough Council. Rochdale Borough Council has been using VU.CITY array of 3D visualization tools and data to ensure swift decision making in a planning process with increased transparency.

Rochdale has ambitious plans to develop 8,000 new homes and 4 million sq ft of new employment floorspace over the next five years. These proposals form part of Rochdale Borough Council’s growth plans which will reshape Rochdale as a place to live, work, connect and visit, and 3D visualization will be a key component to helping them deliver positive change.

There are so many advantages to using VU.CITY’s 3D digital twin technology, from being able to instantly understand and assess a site’s challenges and potential, to simplifying the planning application, to improving how everyone involved can collaborate in a single platform.

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VU.CITY Rochdale: Highlights

Create, edit and assess massing

Easily test massing to understand design feasibility.

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VU.CITY Rochdale functionality: Massing Tool

Test Massing

Assess multiple initial massing options at an early stage and GEA potential quickly.

Sunlight Analysis

Quickly view and assess the initial impact of light from your proposed developments.

Consented Schemes Timeline

Realise a site’s potential by viewing and assessing recently consented developments across Rochdale.

Camera Studies and Presenter Tool

Conduct high-level townscape and visual impact assessments. Agree on key views to analyse further. Select key views and confidentially present your proposals to take stakeholder on the journey of design.

Import Designs

Easily import your designs from external 3D software (such as Revit, Rhino, SketchUp & 3ds Max) into the Manchester or Rochdale and test how they will work in situ.

Zone of Theoretical Visibility

Save time by eliminating unnecessary views for analysis. Understand where your scheme can be seen from and which views are critical to assess.

Annotate with Tags

Mark up comments and actions and easily collaborate on a site or scheme with project team members.

Scope, Design & Collaborate

VU.CITY's project collaboration space, the Hub, allows you to seamlessly communicate with stakeholders, to make better design & planning decisions, faster.

Data Layers

Energy Performance Certificates

Data Layers

Annual Average Household Income 2021

Data Layers

Deprivation Index 2021

Data Layers

Population Density 2021

Rochdale Coverage

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VU.CITY helps organise, visualise, and analyse city data in the clearest and most accessible way to make better decisions.

VU.CITY covers the whole of London and 25 major UK and international cities.

Quickly identify and appraise sites. VU.CITY's visualization, design functionality and planning data, allow you to optimise your designs.

Transform design and planning

Now everyone involved can have a clear, universal understanding of what’s proposed and why, in a single, secure place. VU.CITY makes decision-making democratic and fair.

Build trust and collaboration

Remove barriers and minimise risks early. Have confidence in your designs and plans. Increase buy-in for project success.

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outcomes

Test out ideas in situ, from one building to a masterplan. Create your vision and submissions with confidence.

Collate site information in one place

Communicate complex spatial arrangements

Make documentation stand up and stand out

Speed up planning conversations

Strengthen relationships

Create winning submissions

In your words

“We’re bringing in architects and our clients and different consultants in one room and we’re viewing the drawing, the architecture and the massing through VU.CITY.”

Charlotte Orrell

Senior Planner at Iceni Projects

"The digitisation of planning as outlined in the Whitepaper presents an exciting step in speeding up the planning process and improving engagement with communities. We are already working with VU.CITY and some of our local authority partners to be a leader in digital consultation in line with the ambitions outlined in the new government Whitepaper."

David Bloy

Planning Director - British Land

"VU.CITY gives us the full visual story in a matter of seconds."

Paul Finch

Editor - Architects Journal

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