Reporting on housing quality
Local authorities have to report on housing quality as part of their annual monitoring report. CLG now insists they use Building for Life to make their assessments. |
Assessors for Life
Our new programme, helping teams to assess design quality of neighbourhoods at the planning stage, started with a training event in Bristol.
Lords praise Building for Life
The House of Lords has highlighted Building for Life as 'the national standard for design quality in new housing developments' in a recent debate on architecture and the Housing and Regeneration Bill.
The property conundrum
Nick Johnson from Urban Splash outlines the developer's paradox. Developers who employ good architects to build low carbon schemes with excellent materials are penalised – not rewarded – at the point of purchase.
Placemaking on the city fringe
Our two new international case studies are excellent examples of how to meet the challenges of placemaking on the city fringe.
Hegianwandweg is in Switzerland, between an area of 1930s flats and a high rise for elderly people.
Im Raiser is located in Germany, on a brownfield site formerly occupied by a US military base.
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