{"id":12829,"date":"2016-05-24T15:14:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T14:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=12829"},"modified":"2016-05-24T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T14:57:00","slug":"ihbc-place-alliance-and-other-key-be-bodies-push-stand-out-recommendations-from-building-better-places-to-sos-for-clg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=12829","title":{"rendered":"IHBC, Place Alliance and other key BE bodies push &#8216;stand out&#8217; recommendations from \u2018Building Better Places\u2019 to SOS for CLG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BuildingBetterPlacesCover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12831\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BuildingBetterPlacesCover-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"Building Better Places\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/strong>In advance of the Government&#8217;s response to the House Of Lords Select Committee paper \u2018Building Better Places\u2019, key Built Environment (BE) organisations and members of the Place Alliance, including the IHBC, have written to Greg Clark, Secretary of State (SOS) for Communities and Local Government (CLG), calling for a focus on its \u2018stand out\u2019 recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the IHBC, signatories to the Place Alliance initiative include the Academy of Urbanism, Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation, Design Council-CABE, Landscape Institute, Royal Institute of British Architects, Royal Town Planning Institute and the Urban Design Group, while headline priorities include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Appoint a Chief Built Environment<\/li>\n<li>Establishing a high level architecture and place policy<\/li>\n<li>Promoting the health and well-being impacts<\/li>\n<li>Adoption of Manual for Streets<\/li>\n<li>National Infrastructure Commission publicising local design impacts and local engagement<\/li>\n<li>Using Design Review for major developments<\/li>\n<li>New \u2018Permission in principle\u2019 should give due regard to design quality and place-making<\/li>\n<li>Encourage joint spatial frameworks and cross-boundary cooperation on \u2018larger than local\u2019 planning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Professor Matthew Carmona, Chair of Place Alliance said: \u2018This coming together of key institutes and organisations from the across the built environment sector sends a powerful message to Government that, first, more needs to be done to demonstrate the national commitment to place quality, and second, whilst we may not all agree on every detail in the House of Lords Select Committee&#8217;s report, the main thrust of its recommendations should be taken seriously by Government and especially the eight we highlight\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Collectively the organisations also offer to play a role in helping the Government to consider the report.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Place Alliance writes:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Building Better Places\u2019 was issued on 19 February 2016 (HL Paper 100) by the House of Lords Select Committee on National Policy for the Built Environment.\u00a0 The Committee was appointed \u2018to consider the development and implementation of national policy for the built environment, and to make recommendations\u2019.\u00a0 The resulting report is the first to be issued by this new Select Committee, and contains over sixty conclusions and recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>The recommendations singled out by the organisations as particularly important are (following their order in the report):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Appoint a Chief Built Environment Advisor within government to help co-ordinate policy, to act as a champion for design and to promote good practice beyond government [Paragraph 84]<\/li>\n<li>Establishing a high level architecture and place policy for England [Para 89]<\/li>\n<li>Promoting the health and well-being impacts of the built environment in a more integrated way across local authorities [Para 99]<\/li>\n<li>Encouraging the adoption of Manual for Streets by highways authorities [Paragraph 110]<\/li>\n<li>The National Infrastructure Commission should publicise its approach to local design impacts and local engagement [Para 123]<\/li>\n<li>Incentivising decision makers to more systematically use Design Review for major developments [Para 130]<\/li>\n<li>The new process of Permission in principle should give due regard to design quality and the key components of place-making [Para 148]<\/li>\n<li>Giving further encouragement to joint spatial frameworks and cross-boundary cooperation on \u2018larger than local\u2019 planning [Para 413]<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Place Alliance is a movement which emerged following the Farrell Review of architecture and the built environment (2014).\u00a0 It brings together organisations and individuals who share a belief that the quality of our built environment has a profound influence on people&#8217;s lives.\u2019<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For further information please contact <a href=\"mailto:placealliance@ucl.ac.uk\">placealliance@ucl.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlaceAllianceUK?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PlaceAllianceUK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.placealliance.org.uk\">www.placealliance.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/placealliance.org.uk\/inthemedia\/16-may-2016-place-alliance-press-release\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In advance of the Government&#8217;s response to the House Of Lords Select Committee paper \u2018Building Better Places\u2019, key Built Environment (BE) organisations and members of the Place Alliance, including the IHBC, have written to Greg Clark, Secretary of State (SOS) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=12829\">Continue reading <span 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