Woking

Architects, planners and developers use VU.CITY Woking to address fundamental questions around planning and development such as ‘What will the development look like?’, 'Who will it affect?’ and 'How might it affect them?’

Our 3D digital model of Woking helps everyone in the planning and design process organise, visualise and analyse the potential of a development in the clearest and most accessible way, to make the best decision.

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MODELLED TO 15CM ACCURACY

TREES, ACCURATE TO HEIGHT & CANOPY

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Buildings

VU.CITY Woking For You

Key Features

Coverage

Woking is a modern town currently undergoing renewal, and was named by The Times as one of the UK’s top towns to live in as it offers “the best of both worlds", being rural but not remote.

Redevelopment of the town centre over the last 50 years has resulted in the demolition of much of the original Victorian town centre, and there is now a need for better and greener public spaces. Most new development has to be directed to previously developed land in the town, with consideration needed to environmental designations, and areas liable to flood.

Outside of the main urban areas, the remaining 60% of the borough is green belt, including Goldsworth Park Lake and Horsell Common and with a 33 mile stretch of the Basingstoke Canal running through the borough.

Users of VU.CITY Woking include Woking Borough Council and Hawkins\Brown who have already discovered the model’s many benefits, who are using the model’s many benefits, from being able to understand and assess a site’s opportunities and challenges, testing refined designs in context, enhancing pre-app conversations and planning submissions, to improving how everyone involved collaborates.

VU.CITY Woking: Highlights

Create, edit and assess massing

Easily test massing to understand design feasibility.

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Test Massing

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

Consented Schemes Timeline

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

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

Import Designs

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

Sunlight Analysis

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

Conduct high-level townscape and visual impact assessments with an accurate 3D model of Woking.

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.

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.

Work more collaboratively on designs with VU.CITY's 3D model of Woking

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

Scheduled Monuments

Annual Average Household Income 2021

Deprivation Index 2021

Population Density 2021

Consented Schemes Timeline

Conservation Areas

Site Allocations

Land Registry Query

Listed Buildings

Trees

Woking Coverage

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Create smart cities the smart way

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 23 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.

Improve
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

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

Paul Finch

Editor - Architects Journal

"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."