The UK’s Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission have released a report on how to promote and increase the use of high-quality design for new build homes and neighbourhoods.
Living with beauty; promoting health, well-being and sustainable growth proposes a new development and planning framework which:
- Asks for Beauty
- Refuses Ugliness
- Promote Stewardship
The Commission proposes that these three aims be embedded in the planning system and in the culture of development. The report outlines policy proposals in the following areas:
- Planning: create a predictable level playing field
- Communities: bring the democracy forward
- Stewardship: incentivise responsibility to the future
- Regeneration: end the scandal of left behind place
- Neighbourhoods: create places not just houses
- Nature: re-green our towns and cities
- Education: promote a wider understanding of placemaking
- Management: value planning, count happiness, procure properly
The Commission calls for long-term government investment in these values, arguing for a stronger and more predictable planning system, for greater democratic involvement in planning decisions, and for a new model of long-term stewardship as the precondition for large developments.
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