ABSTRACT
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.
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. Housing Design Quality 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|172 pages
The context for delivering quality
chapter Chapter 1|15 pages
Housing design quality and control: the need for research
chapter Chapter 2|36 pages
Residential design control: history and government guidance up to 1997
chapter Chapter 3|30 pages
The design debate and a new framework for control
chapter Chapter 4|48 pages
The speculative house: product and process
chapter Chapter 5|41 pages
The fundamentals of controlling design
part Two|103 pages
Current practice and innovation in control
chapter Chapter 6|30 pages
Bridging the professional divide
chapter Chapter 7|42 pages
Residential design policy and guidance: a snapshot of practice in the 1990s
chapter Chapter 8|29 pages
Innovation in the control of residential design
part Three|49 pages
The challenge for control