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We propose the following draft objective for the Spatial Development Strategy to achieve and deliver.
Strategic Objective 4: Creating high quality buildings and places that allow our communities to flourish
This will be achieved by:
From our initial engagement, your feedback, in summary, told us:
The Metro Mayor and Combined Authority want to promote good design, support concerted action to improve the quality and attractiveness of neighbourhoods and devise a sub-regional spatial strategy to ensure new homes are built in the right places. He also plans for a fairer and greener housing market, the development of eco-friendly and energy efficient housing, to tackle homelessness and street sleeping working in partnership, and ensure everyone has access to a decent affordable home.
The Metro Mayor has appointed Stirling Prize-winning architect Paul Monaghan as the City Region’s first design champion to promote good design.
LCRCA’s Housing Statement sets out that we want to ensure that the quality of new housing is of a high standard, well designed, accessible, thermally efficient, technologically linked and future proof. It also sets priorities that relate to delivering more homes and improving choice and quality, supporting our ageing population, regenerating our neighbourhoods, improving rental quality, and tackling homelessness.
National planning policy recognises that good design is a key aspect of sustainable development that creates better places to live and work, the importance of safe, inclusive and accessible development which promote health and well-being, and need to conserve and enhance the historic environment.
National planning policy also sets out that plans should as a minimum provide for objectively assessed needs for housing, meet the needs of different groups in the community, set an overall strategy for the pattern, scale and quality of development, and make sufficient provision for housing and affordable housing and community facilities, such as cultural infrastructure.
The Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission have set out that beauty must become the natural result of working within the planning system, which to achieve requires three aims; ask for beauty, refuse ugliness, and promote stewardship.
How we will use this objectiveThis objective will serve as a guiding principle to shape the SDS as it is developed. A number of suggested policy approaches have also been put forward as part of this engagement that would directly or indirectly help us achieve this objective.
Tell us what you thinkPlease provide your views on this draft objective by answering the questions below.