Tag Archives: urban design

The problem with beauty

A CABE study has found that eight out of ten people think everyone should be able to experience beauty on a regular basis.

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What now for good design?

With the future of CABE up in the air and planning departments facing sweeping cuts are we headed into a design wilderness?
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McCloud’s ‘happy homes’ vision

The Telegraph ran a story yesterday about Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud calling for developers and government to build ‘happy homes’.

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Design panel review gets warm reception

Margaret Hodge: an eye for designI was up at the crack of dawn this morning to attend a breakfast launch of the new guidelines for Design Review Panels.

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Planning departments “knackered”

Pier Head Ferry Treminal Times architecture critic Tom Dyckhoff says buildings like the The Pier Head Ferry Terminal bulding in Liverpool are ‘slipping through the net’ because planning departments are “knackered”.

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Not throwing the baby out with the bathwater

Contrary to popular opinion there is plenty of noise from the development sector in these recessionary times, albeit it is the sound of planning gain agreements being urgently renegotiated. Read more »

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