Following from the publication A Housing Design Audit for England and the Building Better Building Beautiful Commission report Living with Beauty, Place Alliance coordinated a joint letter to the Secretary of State for Housing Communities and Local Government, the Rt...
Philip Box, policy and project coordinator at UKGBC, commenting at the launch of the report, said: “This report notes some good examples of industry leaders going beyond the minimum, on energy efficiency, low carbon energy and biodiversity. However, it shows...
The Housing Design Audit report concludes that some house builders – especially the larger ones – are simply choosing not to build better-quality housing in England. And even worse, the report found some evidence that some were using the planning appeals process to...
Inspired by the late philosopher Roger Scruton, the government talks about beauty, but promotes ugly development. If they’re serious about good design, they need a theory that’s not skin-deep. The Bartlett School of Planning has meanwhile reported that most new...
Chair of the RTPI Urban Design Network, Justin Webber, comments on ‘A Housing Design Audit for England’ – a report, conducted by University College London (UCL) for the Place Alliance and the Campaign to Protect Rural England, which was launched on 21 January 2020....
An audit carried out by University College London of over 140 housing developments built since 2007 found 75% should not have gone ahead because of their “mediocre” or “poor” design. Architect Matthew Carmona’s team frequently found...
A new report damns the design of new housing developments in England as overwhelmingly ‘mediocre’ or ‘poor’, with less-affluent communities the worst affected, according to a national audit. The study has already prompted the LGA to press for Right to Buy reform in...
“It’s really a national tragedy,” said the report’s author Matthew Carmona, a professor at UCL’s Bartlett School of Planning. “The pressure to build is in a sense absolutely right, we need more homes, but we need more homes of a...
Report finds ‘unethical’ housebuilders are designing just 26% of homes well “Greedy” housebuilders are constructing homes that are overwhelmingly of poor or mediocre design quality, according to a national housing audit conducted by University College London. Read...
A damning audit of the nation’s new housing, which claims three-quarters are either of ‘mediocre’ or ‘poor’ quality design, has prompted calls for urgent action. Read more...
