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Here at the launch of the ‘Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission’ report ‘Living with Beauty’
It has built a new development and planning framework which promises to:
-Ask for Beauty
-Refuse Ugliness
-Promote Stewardship
It has built a new development and planning framework which promises to:
-Ask for Beauty
-Refuse Ugliness
-Promote Stewardship
The report’s four challenges:
New homes
Carbon neutrality
End scandal of left behind places
Mental health/wellbeing
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New homes
Carbon neutrality
End scandal of left behind places
Mental health/wellbeing
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“The sorts of places we have been making for the last seventy years are in general far worse than the sorts of places we made in the past.”
Bar one or two exceptions, bang on.
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Bar one or two exceptions, bang on.
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45 policy recommendations in eight key fields. #BBBBC
A key reccomendation: Government should align regeneration VAT with new build VAT.
Current system perversely encourages tearing old buildings down, rather than recycling them.
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Current system perversely encourages tearing old buildings down, rather than recycling them.
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Regreening recommendations: Green spaces, urban waterways, two million street trees, a fruit tree for every home.
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Short and medium term measures, and responsibility for delivery:
This is exactly the kind of thing that a new ambitious government with a stonking majority should be getting on with.
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This is exactly the kind of thing that a new ambitious government with a stonking majority should be getting on with.
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MHCLG Secretary @RobertJenrick now up and praising Roger Scruton.
Of the New Statesman scandal, Jenrick says it was a “deeply regrettable episode, and I am profoundly sorry for the role that the Government played in it.”
Of the New Statesman scandal, Jenrick says it was a “deeply regrettable episode, and I am profoundly sorry for the role that the Government played in it.”
Jenrick heaping praise on the report:
“The report recognises that our identities not just as individuals but as communities lie in the places we live in”
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“That’s why beautiful homes must become the norm in this society not just the exception.”
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“The report recognises that our identities not just as individuals but as communities lie in the places we live in”
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“That’s why beautiful homes must become the norm in this society not just the exception.”
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Jenrick: ‘We have to abolish the myth that quality is the enemy of supply’
“Far from holding us back, championing quality helps us go faster and go further.”
“Let’s build more, but let’s build better”
Beautiful building are popular, faster to approve, and more lasting.
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“Far from holding us back, championing quality helps us go faster and go further.”
“Let’s build more, but let’s build better”
Beautiful building are popular, faster to approve, and more lasting.
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Jenrick: “I will establish a fast track for beauty.”
-high quality materials
-take into account local setting
“These developments will proceed at pace.”
-high quality materials
-take into account local setting
“These developments will proceed at pace.”
Jenrick stops short of accepting report in full at this stage. Will only go as far as saying he will implement ‘as much as I can’, and work with Commission members in weeks and months ahead.
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