Press archive 2017
Can new players achieve a real increase in house building?
A summary of the debate on how realistic is it for new players on the housing market to meet the government’s expectations and deliver a step change in production. Read more →
Design Governance, The CABE Experiment, book launch
On 3rd March Place Alliance marked the book launch of Professor Matthew Carmona, Claudio de Magalhães and Lucy Natarajan’s research examining the history and impact of CABE. Read more →
Coordinating codes, the right tool for the job!
Matthew Carmona in his blog on the Coordinating Codes as the possible solution to the Permission in Principle and the way to achieve both the Government’s aim of greater certainty in the planning process, whilst still enabling the proper consideration of design and other qualitative concerns through the planning system. Read the full article here →
Read more“CABE used national housing audits to embarrass the housebuilders by publicising how poor their products were.”
Government could improve housing design by learning from CABE
It is six years since the government design watchdog was axed, but many of its initiatives could be aped to improve the quality of new housing, says Bartlett professor Matthew Carmona. Read more →
Community leaders seek a ‘manifesto’ for Farnham
Prominent members of the Farnham community and of Farnham and Waverley councils met to set our a ‘manifesto for Farham’ by considering the policies set out in the Healthy Places Manifesto by Place Alliance and to look for steps to overcome some of the problems faced by Farnham as a small historic town expecting substantial new development in the near future. Read more →