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The Prince鈥檚 Foundation for the Built Environment is to press ahead with plans to offer design review services, formerly carried out by Cabe, despite an outcry from the architecture profession.

The foundation, which was set up by Prince Charles to promote traditional forms of urban development, this week said it was starting to contact developers and local authorities to gain interest for the plan.

Hank Dittmar, Prince鈥檚 Foundation chief executive, said the body would not be deterred from pushing ahead with the scheme 鈥渘otwithstanding the opinions of a London
architectural elite鈥�.

The body is deeply controversial with architects because of its connection to the Prince of Wales.

Dittmar believes that there is 鈥渘o reason鈥� that the foundation鈥檚 detractors - which include the RIBA - would be able to stop the organisation launching a service in a competitive environment.

He said a panel would be appointed by the foundation of 鈥減eople committed to urbanism鈥�, representing a range of architectural styles, as well as members of other professions and interested lay people.

The decisions of this panel, which would not be appointed by Prince Charles, would be final, with schemes not subject to approval by the prince.

Dittmar sees the foundation as being one of a number of providers working in the design review market, with developers or councils being able to choose different bodies to review their schemes.

He said: 鈥淭he foundation would be open about its starting point: it supports design in service of walkable, mixed-use neighbourhoods, linked by streets and squares and landscape.

鈥淚n a market for providers, if it was apparent we were biased in terms of style, then people would just stop using us. A lot of the reaction has been about the profession trying to close off the debate to non-architects.鈥�

Ruth Reed, the RIBA president, has said the Prince鈥檚 Foundation was an 鈥渆ntirely inappropriate鈥� body to perform a role that demanded 鈥渢otal impartiality.鈥� The foundation鈥檚 plans have also been criticised by architects Will Alsop and Jim Eyre.