Will Labour’s planning reforms work? | Five initiatives to achieve major change | Futurebuild Industry Insider Newsletter 365
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The Edge is a campaigning built and natural environment think tank and network. It is multi-disciplinary in a landscape remarkable for its abundance of single-discipline institutions.
The Edge Debate is a process of thinking about how the built and natural environment could be better. It involves the ‘why’, ‘what’, and ‘where’ questions.
WHERE are we headed as an economy, as a society and as a polity and does our built and natural environment help us or hinder us?
WHAT can we afford to build with the ever-diminishing amounts of carbon to which we are entitled?
WHY haven’t we been able to improve the built and natural environment in the ways we know we should have: such as energy performance, simplified building and planning regulations, inter-institutional working, appropriate R&D investment and dealing with waste?
Five initiatives to achieve major change for people and the environment
We have a new Government, with new beliefs, policies and plans, even if with an inherited and deeply constraining budget. Much ink has already been spent trying to predict what Labour will do in power given its focus on economic growth, building new homes and towns, clean energy, accelerating the journey to net zero and protecting nature. Change is on the agenda again. Over the last few years the Edge, the built and natural environment think tank, has been discussing and working on the policy changes needed from our sector to deliver an equitable and sustainable future for the UK and beyond. Much of this thinking has featured in the Annual Futurebuild Conference curated by the Edge, but we have also been having extensive discussions with politicians, civil servants, representatives of professional bodies and civic society organisations and environmental campaigners, often bringing them together to tackle difficult topics collectively and in the room with each other.
We are making an impact by bringing together decision-makers, researchers, campaigners, practitioners and their professional institutions.
Water – one of our most critical infrastructure challenges
The world has a water crisis and the UK is no exception. The National Audit Office has forecast that by 2034 total demand for water will exceed supply. Water has been undervalued as a resource as has the true cost of managing sewerage and storm water.
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