{"id":25216,"date":"2020-01-31T16:21:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=25216"},"modified":"2020-01-31T16:21:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:21:03","slug":"mhclg-and-housing-secretary-on-beautiful-homes-as-bbbbc-reports-on-living-with-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=25216","title":{"rendered":"MHCLG and Housing Secretary on beautiful homes as BBBBC reports on Living with beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-25217\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Living_with_Beauty_Report_310120-214x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/>With the launch of the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission&#8217;s (BBBBC) report \u2013 <em>Living with beauty<\/em> \u2013 The Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP reports from the Ministry of Housing, Communities &amp; Local Government (MHCLG).<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>MHCLG writes:<\/p>\n<p>Well-designed, high quality homes and tree-lined streets should be the \u2018norm \u2013 not the exception\u2019, Housing Secretary Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP has said today (30 January 2020), following the launch of the Building Better Building Beautiful Commission\u2019s final report.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/living-with-beauty-report-of-the-building-better-building-beautiful-commission\">Living with beauty<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 the first report of its kind led by the late Sir Roger Scruton and Nicolas Boys Smith \u2013 contains over 130 practical recommendations to support the creation of more beautiful communities, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>planting millions of trees over the next 5 years, as well as opening old canals and supporting every home to have its own or access to a fruit tree<\/li>\n<li>speeding up the planning process for beautiful buildings through a new \u2018Fast Track for Beauty\u2019 rule for councils<\/li>\n<li>increasing democracy and involving communities in local plans and planning applications, including using digital technology like virtual reality and 3D modelling to help locals shape their own areas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Welcoming the report at the Garden Museum, Lambeth, the Housing Secretary Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP will say:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today\u2019s report is important for many reasons, not least because of the powerful argument it makes that a sense of place still matters \u2013 and, arguably, in our fast-paced, globalised world, matters perhaps more than ever.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It recognises that our identities go hand in hand with the places and neighbourhoods in which we live and work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That\u2019s why beautiful, high-quality homes must become the norm, not the exception.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Jenrick said that there was plenty of evidence that instead of holding housebuilding back \u201cchampioning quality would help us go further\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He added:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am interested in the proposal of a \u201cfast track for beauty\u201d. Where individuals and developers have put in the time to create proposals for well-designed buildings, which use high quality-materials and take account of their local setting, it can\u2019t be right their planning applications are held up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I too want to see a return to planting more trees. We set out in our manifesto that we will expect all new streets to be lined with trees and are working to make this commitment a reality.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to see zero-carbon homes being built as standard within 5 years as we learn again how our built and natural environments can work in harmony.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And the report is right that local authorities will need to play a leading role in this design revolution. We will need to ensure they have the right skills and leadership to fully carry out their role as place-makers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am therefore determined to do all I can to help achieve the goal you\u2019ve set in the report\u2019s conclusion \u2013 that we should aspire to pass on our heritage, the best of who we are and what we have, to our successors, not depleted but enhanced.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s report is the latest step in the government\u2019s commitment to delivering one million well-designed, quality homes by the end of this parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the recommendations are already underway, with a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/national-design-guide\">national design guide<\/a>\u00a0published by the Housing Secretary last October 2019 and a new national model design code currently in production.<\/p>\n<p id=\"further-information\"><strong>Further information:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The government will issue its full response to the Commission\u2019s final report in due course.<\/p>\n<p>The Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission submitted its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/living-with-beauty-report-of-the-building-better-building-beautiful-commission\">final report<\/a>\u00a0to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government in December 2019 and is published today.<\/p>\n<p>More details on the Commission, it\u2019s membership and those involved in advising on the final report can be found on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/groups\/building-better-building-beautiful-commission\">Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The government published a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/national-design-guide\">national design guide<\/a>\u00a0in October 2019. This sets out how councils can demand better design from developers and inspire the next generation of beautiful communities.<\/p>\n<p>A new national model design code is being prepared that will set basic design standards where local areas fail to adopt their own design code. This will be published later this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/housing-secretary-beautiful-homes-should-become-norm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More details on the Commission, it\u2019s membership and those involved in advising on the final report can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/groups\/building-better-building-beautiful-commission\">Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the launch of the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission&#8217;s (BBBBC) report \u2013 Living with beauty \u2013 The Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP reports from the Ministry of Housing, Communities &amp; Local Government (MHCLG).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25218,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25216\/revisions\/25218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}