Place Alliance – Design & Place Quality

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Matthew Carmona will come and present to BOB-MK about the value of place and quality of design.

Looking at Housing today, Councils are more able to refuse schemes on design
grounds under new NPPF Councils have been much more able to refuse planning applications on design grounds since alterations to national planning policy made in 2020, according to the latest research. A study by the Place Alliance found that since changes to the National Planning Policy. Housing Design Audit for England revealed that three quarters of new housing developments were mediocre or poor when assessed against a broad basket of urban design considerations. Given that, why isn’t more of it simply rejected by the planning system?