Far Right warning

PROTECT THE COUNTRYSIDE by building more homes in inner cities. That’s the unsurprising message today from the Campaign to Protect Rural England.

Actually, the message is a bit more sophisticated than that: a plea for ‘compact communities’ and to rehabilitate the idea of high-density housing after the disasters of the 1960s and 1970s. The second edition of the CPRE’s Compact Sustainable Communities contains lots of useful guidance on how excellence in design and construction can help build communities and on how to apply those in the planning system.

Timing of the publication is no accident. The government is expected to publish the new PPS3 planning policy on housing soon.