Housing Design Quality

This book directly addresses the major planning debate of our time - the delivery and quality of new housing development. As pressure for new housing development in England increases, a widespread desire to improve the design of the resulting residential environments becomes evermore apparent with increasing condemnation of the standard products of the volume housebuilders.<BR>In recent years central government has come to accept the need to deliver higher quality living environments, and the important role of the planning system in helping to raise design standards. <EM>Housing Design Quality</EM> focuses on this role and in particular on how the various policy instruments available to public authorities can be used in a positive manner to deliver higher quality residential developments.