{"id":58872,"date":"2019-06-21T11:05:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T10:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=58872"},"modified":"2019-06-21T11:05:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T10:05:58","slug":"more-attention-to-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/more-attention-to-design\/58872\/","title":{"rendered":"Local authorities must pay more attention to design"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>In a speech at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=royal+town+planning+institute&amp;rlz=1C1VFKB_enGB828GB828&amp;oq=Royal+Town+Planning+Institute&amp;aqs=chrome.0.35i39j69i61j0l4.439j0j4&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\">Royal Town Planning Institute<\/a> (RTPI) Planning Convention, Kit Malthouse said that we should be building the &#8220;conservation areas of the future&#8221; rather than repeating the mistakes of the 1960s by building houses that will be demolished within 50 years<\/h2>\n<p>At the Planning Convention, the RTPI also recognised the importance of design by launching a new report which offers recommendations for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtpi.org.uk\/knowledge\/research\/projects\/planning-and-design-quality\/\">improving design quality and placemaking through planning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of state for housing, Kit Malthouse, said: \u201cThe housebuilding industry has a problem because we know that 60-odd % of people don\u2019t want to buy their product because of the way it looks. They would prefer a second-hand product \u2013 in many cases, they would prefer a 15th\u00a0or 16th<sup>&#8211;<\/sup>hand product.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHumans don\u2019t want blank ubiquity, they want detail and soul and vernacular, and a sense of belonging and harmony with what is around them. I think that local authority planners and civic leaders will have to pay much more attention to design quality and aesthetics.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>As well as better design, Malthouse outlined three other parts of his vision for housing:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Build more houses and ensure they are more varied and of a higher quality<\/li>\n<li>Post-Grenfell, ensure that a new safety culture for the built environment is integral to the entire design and development process<\/li>\n<li>Introduce higher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/gascoigne-estate-plans\/58143\/\">environmental standards<\/a> in buildings by, for example, allowing more space for the natural world and adopting new technology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In his speech, Malthouse also signalled his desire to see the return of strategic long-term planning, calling for 10, 15 and 20-year strategic plans that address infrastructure and housing, and are able to \u2018escape the handbrakes of the short-term political cycle.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Other highlights of the RTPI Planning Convention included a speech by Mark Prisk MP, chair of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/about\/mps-and-lords\/members\/apg\/\">All Party Parliamentary Group<\/a> (APPG) on housing.<\/p>\n<p>In his opening speech, RTPI president Ian Tant launched the Institute\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtpi.org.uk\/briefing-room\/news-releases\/2019\/june\/rtpi-launches-resource-planning-for-climate-action-campaign\/\">\u2018Resource Planning for Climate Action\u2019<\/a> campaign, calling on the government to give more resources and powers to local planning authorities to tackle climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The RTPI also launched new reports looking at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtpi.org.uk\/knowledge\/research\/projects\/chief-planning-officers\/\">corporate and strategic influence of planning in local authorities<\/a>, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtpi.org.uk\/knowledge\/research\/projects\/the-planning-profession\/\">size and structure of the planning profession in the UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a speech at the RTPI Planning Convention, Kit Malthouse said that we should be building the \u2018conservation areas of the future\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"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":[277,676,276,572,571,569,656,952],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-built-environment","8":"tag-construction","9":"tag-government","10":"tag-housebuilding","11":"tag-housing-crisis","12":"tag-housing-standards","13":"tag-housing","14":"tag-planning"},"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>Local authorities must pay more attention to design<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a speech at the RTPI Planning Convention, Kit Malthouse said that we should be building the \u2018conservation areas of the future\u2019\" \/>\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\/more-attention-to-design\/58872\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Local authorities must pay more attention to design\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a speech at the RTPI Planning Convention, Kit Malthouse said that we should be building the \u2018conservation areas of the future\u2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/more-attention-to-design\/58872\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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