Interview: Nicholas Boys Smith on design, deregulation and the Office for Place

摘要

There are few topics more controversial than planning reform and placemaking and few people more passionate about them than the chair of the new Office for Place. He talks to Joey Gardiner about the government’s intentions and how they square with his beauty agenda. Portrait photographs by Tom Campbell Last month the housing secretary Robert Jenrick launched a new housing design body and reforms to national planning policy intended to put the concept of beauty at the heart of the system. The man asked to chair the new Office for Place is the person associated more than any other individual with the government’s agenda to improve the design of new homes and places:Nicholas Boys Smith.