Walkability of towns is crucial
The Sunday Times reports on the lack of reachable amenities in many planning projects, which is something the Prince’s Foundation seeks to change. “A report
Consultation on 2,500 home plan for Chessington Green Belt
Chessington residents are being asked to help design plans for a new development that could see up to 2,500 new homes and a new 20-acre
What Kingston’s new Local Plan means and why we desperately need it
New housing targets mean the borough will have to design better infrastructure. It’s now a common sight to see shops boarded up on London’s high
Enabling Healthy Placemaking
Recent studies have identified important challenges faced by planners who try to integrate healthy placemaking principles in their decisions. Although the barriers to building healthy
Living in Harmony with Nature
Ben Bolgar, Senior Director, The Prince’s Foundation, and Visiting Fellow, Kellogg College, University of Oxford. For thousands of years humans have built settlements consisting of
Interview: Ben Bolgar, advisor to the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission, on the challenges and opportunities of using design codes
The government’s Planning For The Future white paper sets out ambitions to make the use of “locally-produced design codes” a central part of plan-making. Ben
Five circumstances ‘exceptional’ enough to justify green belt release in local plans
The most common reasons given by inspectors for deciding that “exceptional circumstances” exist to justify the release of green belt in a local plan. Green
Sustainable development in the green belt
Building on the UK’s green belt is one of the most emotive and divisive topics in the real estate sector, but, as Susan Simpson and