The delivery of this vision for beauty is reliant on a coordinated response from all in the private and public sector, but do the public sector have the skills to deliver this? The Place Alliance published a report last week call the ‘Design Deficit’ that reviews the...
A study by the Place Alliance team at the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment at UCL warns that it will take until 2077 for every local planning authority to have at least one urban design officer. The research has come whilst the Government moves to a...
A study by the Place Alliance team at the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment at UCL warns that it will take until 2077 – another 56 years – for every local planning authority to have at least one urban design officer at current rates of recruitment. Besides an...
The last comprehensive survey of Design skills in English local authorities noted: “Urban design skills and capacity within local planning authorities are woefully low and declining” Three years later the Housing Design Audit for England concluded that the design of...
Figures cast doubt on councils’ ability to implement Jenrick’s beauty agenda Three-quarters of local authorities have no access to architectural advice and 40% have no support on urban design matters, according to new figures. Almost two-thirds have no landscape...
The new Office for Place has the potential to surpass Cabe, says Matthew Carmona – but there remain some unanswered questions Yesterday we came to a point of national change, with the launch not only of a new version of the National Planning Policy Framework – with...
