By Elizabeth Hopkirk2021-01-30T06:00:00+00:00
Robert Jenrick sets up Office for Place to ‘pioneer beauty witihin the planning system’
The government is today publishing a draft national model design code which it says will play a central role in banishing “ugliness” from new developments.
The model code, which it hopes will be adapted by communities all over England to reflect their local contexts, was debvised by David Rudlin of Urbed.
It provides a checklist of design principles to consider for new developments, such as street character, building type and facade as well as environmental impact and wellbeing factors.
Robert Jenrick addresses the launch of the Building Better Building Beautiful Commission report at the Garden Museum in London a year ago. Today’s announcements are in part a response to its recommendations
All new developments must meet local standards of beauty, quality and design under new rules
Local communities will be at the heart of plans to make sure that new developments in their area are beautiful and well-designed.
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30 January 2021 Image credit: Pollard Thomas Edwards; PRP Architects LLP; Jeferson Smith; Tim Crocker Architectural Photography; ADAM Architecture
Communities to be at the heart of plans for well-designed neighbourhoods, to help us Build Back Better
Every council to create their own local design code so new developments can reflect what local communities truly want
New ‘Office for Place’ to be set up, to help communities turn these designs into a local standard for all new developments
Staines council-led developments put on hold to consult residents but delaying further could cost £15m
The moratorium does not apply to the private 14-storey Bridge Street development
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Staines residents protest against the Arora development; Cllrs John Boughtflower and Sinead Mooney are at the rear (Image: Residents Riverside Coalition)
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image captionPlans to broadcast calls to prayer submitted by the Masjid Ghousia mosque in Peterborough have been rejected
Plans to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer through loudspeakers three times a day to a city neighbourhood have been rejected.
The Masjid Ghousia mosque on Gladstone Street in Peterborough applied to the city council to install the speakers on one of its minarets.
Planning permission has been refused on the grounds it would be an unwelcome intrusion on the soundscape .
The BBC has contacted the mosque for comment.
The application was for the amplified call to prayer [the azan] three times per day every day (early afternoon, late afternoon and sunset) for between three and five minutes at a time from four speakers located on the top of the tower.
Plans to change derelict building next to The Bell Inn into flats called insane
There have been objections to the plans
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The Bell Inn pub on Walcott Street, Bath. (Image: The Bell Inn pub on Walcott Street Bath)
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