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Anne-Marie spoke at this annual event held by LD Events. She stressed how important it is to get schemes commercially right while meeting all the recent legislative changes to building regulations and the latest NPPF, it is getting harder for our clients to make schemes viable.  In her panel discussion Anne-Marie focused on the crucial aspects of design that impact commercial and social success.  She presented our three key focus areas to consider while in the early design stage: Development - Sales - Operations. When each of these areas are considered together, and at the right time, the result is a successful project that: reduces management and staff costs, creates relationships between spaces that encourage community, achieves the best sales values and commercial returns, is efficient to build and maintain and hopefully meets the budget via a programme that allows time for all of these things to be considered.  The pressurised environment of a design team charged with hitting planning and tender deadlines can often force out critical thinking of other stakeholders.  Timely input and tracking the brief are ways to balance the pressure.