Living with Beauty promised much but its delivery is falling dangerously short

摘要

The contradictions inherent in the government’s proposed planning reforms are striking: the chocolatebox imagery of 18th-century cottages deployed to sell the concept of Living with Beauty contrast with the communities secretary’s hasty and unlawful approval of huge towers at Robert Desmond’s Westferry Printworks. The call for “gentle density” is out of kilter with councils’ strategic housing land availability assessments, and much development is now taking place at superdensity on the available sites.