From the editor

摘要

When AJ reporter Merlin Fulcher asked planning minister Greg Clark this week whether England should have a policy for architecture, he said the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) was England's architecture policy. Clark said that by culling hundreds of pages of guidance and embedding an emphasis on design, the NPPF puts architecture at the heart of planning. 'This is the feature of the NPPF which is most innovative and most radical,' said Clark. 'Clearly it's a clarion call to high quality and innovative architecture.'