Professor Matthew Carmona has been appointed Specialist Advisor to the House of Lords Select Committee on National Policy for the Built Environment. The committee, which is chaired by the Conservative peer Baroness O’Cathain, was appointed in June 2015 to...
Place Alliance – England’s link group for ‘place-related’ interests, of which IHBC is a member – has released a new manifesto called ‘Artists & the Arts in Placemaking’, calling for the importance of culture in placemaking to be recognised and no longer seen as...
On 27th October the Place Alliance held the fourth of its Big Meets in London. The packed meeting was addressed by Brandon Lewis, Minister of State for Housing and Planning. David Rudlin was one of a number of people asked to make a response, although the minister...
Sometimes, all it takes for grass-roots initiatives to develop is a combination of good timing, the right conversations, and a network of partners willing to take it forward. In the case of the Place Alliance, a collaborative cross-sector alliance encouraging a...
Matthew Carmona presents at the Academy Of Urbanism’s Mid-Year Review a potted history of the Place Alliance movement’s origins, coming directly as a result of the Farrell Review and with the aim of addressing the void left by the winding-down of the...
Discussion of Farrell Review and its achievements year after its publication. Feature of PlaceAlliance as means of provision “a powerful collective voice on questions of place quality” as well as increasing debate around improving everyday environments. Read...
Most councillors enter local politics to make a difference and to positively bring about change. As we continue cutting budgets to the bone, we must ensure the money we do spend is well spent and, writes Sue Vincent, that means they need to understand how good design...
