Urban Design (quarterly) Issue 106 - Creative cities

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UDG Update

Chairman’s Remarks

In August 2006, the Government had high aspirations for raising the design standard of what is built when the Planning Minister Baroness Andrews announced that ‘the Government is putting high quality design at the heart of the planning process’. This saw the introduction of a statement about design to accompany, but not be part of, almost all planning applications. This has quickly become part...