{"id":43213,"date":"2018-07-04T15:09:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T14:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=43213"},"modified":"2018-07-04T15:12:19","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T14:12:19","slug":"building-communities-all-political-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/building-communities-all-political-parties\/43213\/","title":{"rendered":"Building communities group backed by all political parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>An All Parliamentary Group on Building Communites has been launched to discuss design and placemaking decisions towards solving the UK&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/new-tv-programme-solving-the-housing-crisis-questions-the-uks-current-situation\/42958\/\">housing crisis<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>In a meeting held on Monday 18th June 2018, Bob Blackman MP was voted chair of the group while Liz Twist Labour MP and Stephen Hammond Conservative MP were elected as vice-chairs. Mark Prisk Conservative MP was voted in as the group&#8217;s secretary.<\/p>\n<p>The aforementioned members will be joined by: Lord Shipley (Liberal Democrat), Sir Graham Brady MP (Conservative), Baroness Brown (Crossbench), , Lord Hodgson (Conservative), Andrew Lewer MP (Conservative) and Matt Western MP (Labour). The cross-party group of MPs and Peers will now meet in the autumn for its first session.<\/p>\n<p>Guiding the group&#8217;s success is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acenet.co.uk\/home\/592\">The Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE)<\/a> who will provide secretariat services for the APPG. They will discuss proposals that have been submitted in ACE\u2019s report,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acenet.co.uk\/new-york-style-property-sales-levy-could-raise-billions-for-housing-and-infrastructure\/5007\/2\/1\/610\/3\">Unlocking Housing: Reinvigorating Local Communities through Placemaking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the launch, Bob Blackman MP, the APPG on Building Communities chair said: \u201cI\u2019m delighted to chair this new group which will take the discussion around good design and placemaking to the next political level.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to find new ideas to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/uk-housing-crisis-could-be-saved-by-land-trusts-report-suggests\/41287\/\">tackle the housing crisis and build the homes the country needs<\/a>. I firmly believe that only a holistic approach which marries community engagement, placemaking and strategic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/stakeholders\/bentley-systems-advancing-infrastructure\/42690\/\">infrastructure<\/a> spending will enable this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acenet.co.uk\/home\/592\">ACE<\/a> chief executive Dr Nelson Ogunshakin OBE said: \u201cACE is pleased to provide the secretariat for the APPG on Building Communities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The group\u2019s formation is a vindication of ACE\u2019s work in championing good design and infrastructure and ACE members should be excited that their views will be heard, discussed and debated in parliament.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The APPG on Building Communites is financially supported by ACE members <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aecom.com\/\">AECOM<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mottmac.com\/\">Mott MacDonald<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterbrett.com\/\">Peter Brett Associates<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ramboll.co.uk\/\">Ramboll<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.watermangroup.com\/\">Waterman<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsp.com\/en-GB\">WSP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Heathrow, a non-member supporter has also offered their advice to the group.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An All Parliamentary Group on Building Communites has been launched to discuss design and placemaking decisions towards solving the UK&#8217;s housing crisis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[636,276,571,656],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-engineering","8":"tag-government","9":"tag-housing-crisis","10":"tag-housing"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Building communities group backed by all political parties<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An All Parliamentary Group on Building Communites has been launched to discuss design and placemaking decisions towards solving the UK&#039;s housing crisis.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/building-communities-all-political-parties\/43213\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Building communities group backed by all political parties\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An All Parliamentary Group on Building Communites has been launched to discuss design and placemaking decisions towards solving the UK&#039;s housing crisis.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/building-communities-all-political-parties\/43213\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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