BSP Research Fellow, Valentina Giordano has been awarded a Beacon Bursary with her project ‘Place Alliance: Child-centred Urban Planning’. The project will involve children in a design workshop to explore the question: What would child-centred urban planning look...
Generation Place was one of ten projects featured in the Ove Arup Foundation’s 2019 ‘Catalyst for Change’ exhibition, which celebrated thirty years of the Foundation during March – June 2019 at the Arup London Offices. This is one of ten short essays written to...
University College London’s Bartlett School of Planning is to carry out an audit funded by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and the Place Alliance, a non-profit network whose supporters include the Planning Officers Society, Civic Voice, and the...
Built environment organisations have come together to support the UK’s first national housing design audit, which plans to examine large-scale housing developments. Read more →
One of the country’s leading planning schools is to carry out an audit of design quality in housing developments across England, it has been announced. Read more here →
The first systematic audit of housing design quality since CABE was scrapped has been announced. The project, which will examine at least 100 large-scale developments across England, will feed into the work of the government’s controversial Building Better, Building...
An audit of housing design quality will examine at least 100 large-scale developments across England to help drive the construction of better-quality residential schemes. Read more →
A diverse group of organisations connected with the building industry have come together to support the UK’s first ever national housing design audit. The Place Alliance (UCL) and CPRE, with the support of the Home Builders Federation, the Urban Design Group, Civic...
A national audit of new-built housing is launching this summer to examine how design quality has changed in the past decade. The independent project, which will examine at least 100 major schemes across England, will be led by Matthew Carmona, professor of planning...
With the drive to deliver more homes across the country has come a loud call for those developments to be of a high standard of design in order to deliver high quality, liveable and sustainable environments for residents. The Place Alliance (UCL) and CPRE, with the...
