This is a really interesting review and well worth a read. The headline finding is fairly stark. "The review found that current policies, guidance and regulations are highly complex and inconsistent in what they require regarding homes created through permitted development. By removing the requirement to obtain full planning consent, the government has taken away a key mechanism for ensuring good quality homes in appropriate locations. The lack of clear and specific requirements regarding the quality of housing created through permitted development creates a risk that regulators and developers might not ensure those vital requirements are addressed. The assumption that current policy and regulations provide a sufficient ‘safety net’ to ensure that any new home (whether created through permitted development or planning permission) meets basic standards to support health and wellbeing is unfounded." We know the links between health outcomes and the built environment in which we live are incredibly strong. From the Marmot Review (https://lnkd.in/ez2KTDgA) through to the recent DLUCH committee looking at children, young people and the built environment (https://lnkd.in/eWccT-va), we need to keep asking ourselves the question whether we are delivering people friendly and healthy places. https://lnkd.in/eYHwbe6a
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Our 'Housing That Connects Us' webinar series is back! Please join us and Happy Cities on Thursday, October 3 at 10 AM PST for a dynamic discussion about a toolkit of design resources we're launching that planners and housing professionals can use to ensure denser housing **also** supports community resilience and social connection. Planners and housing professionals have a critical opportunity to ensure that new homes not only meet supply and affordability goals—but also support the health and happiness of residents. Our new toolkit is packed with policy and design tools to ensure that new multi-unit housing provides more than just a roof overhead—a safe home where people of all walks of life can grow, meet neighbours, and feel a sense of belonging to their community. By joining this webinar, you will learn: 🤝 How planners, architects, and housing developers and operators can apply the design actions in the toolkit to ensure denser housing also supports community resilience and social connection. 🎨 How design strategies in the toolkit can nurture wellbeing in housing for people of all ages, backgrounds, abilities, household sizes, and incomes. 💭 Opportunities for upcoming engagement with the project in fall 2024 and beyond. We hope to see you there! #HousingThatConnectsUs https://lnkd.in/gpYM6Tuj
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Director, Healthier Place-making, TCPA (Town & Country Planning Association). Trustee, Trees for Cities.
On Tuesday government changed #planning rules, making it easier to convert huge office blocks into flats in England. It sounds great: there are lots of empty offices and a desperate need for #homes. However, by making these conversions 'permitted development', so developers don't need to apply for planning permission, government has removed the 'quality control' mechanism. Does this matter? Won't building regulations ensure that the homes created this way are basically OK, even if they're not luxurious? Unfortunately, no. The TCPA has just published extensive evidence that the way building regulations apply to these types of conversions is full of loop-holes. With permitted development, councils have no control over what gets built where and no way of refusing conversions that will create extremely poor quality, unhealthy homes. England's working-age population is already in poor health - it's holding back #productivity and is a drag on the #economy. We can't afford to create homes that will make generations of residents ill, putting more pressure on the NHS: every new home should meet basic quality standards. So let's re-use buildings - but not through permitted development. And let's have mandatory minimum standards for every new home. #HealthyHomes The TCPA's research is below: https://lnkd.in/e6ZSKuSp
Permitted development, housing and health: a review of national policy and regulations - Town and Country Planning Association
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Working for a more inclusive world by bringing the concepts of universal design into the 21st century.
Friends and colleagues, you might know that for the last 20 years I have been campaigning alongside @ANUHD for mandated access features in mainstream housing, which is now in the NCC. This draft document appears to have flown in from left field without consulting the organisations that are referenced in the document. If the researcher had done so, they would have found that this issue has a long political history of citizen action that goes way beyond design features. The consultation closes 14 May without key stakeholders being notified. ANUHD has asked for another month. The document is ignorant of the current considerations by the ABCB including a proposal for change to mandate beyond minimum in 2028. This consultation has the potential to compromise the collaborative work already underway with ABCB and Standards Australia, and I am advised there are some fundamental errors in the document pertaining to the current standards. With a plethora of design guides and economic arguments resting on stony ground, we need action not more guidelines - we need NSW and WA to adopt the existing Livable Housing Standard in the NCC but this document won't help that happen. Here is a link to the draft document for consultation. https://lnkd.in/grRYuQUV
Consultation Draft_Design Guidelines For Access and Inclusion in Residential Development.pdf
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7moWise words. In our nearest highstreet several former shops have been converted into accommodation but half heartedly so. Shop front windows were simply taped over. It must be hard to keep warm, let alone enjoy as a home. It amazes me that it got permission.