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| Link to GOV.UK |
"Creative Industries Minister Ed Vaizey has asked Sir Terry Farrell CBE to make recommendations to inform DCMS’s approach to promoting high standards of design.
The review will look at four main areas:
- Understanding the Government’s role in promoting design quality in architecture and the built environment
- The economic benefits of architecture – maximising the UK’s growth potential
- Cultural heritage and the built environment
- Promoting education, outreach, and skills.
And the report, just published...
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| Link to web site |
Daily Telegraph:
"Planning champions for every area of country to fight unsightly developments"
"Planning 'champions' should be appointed in every community in the country to oppose unsightly unpopular developments, an independent report for the Government says today.
The 200-page review by leading architect Sir Terry Farrell said every council should nominate a 'civic champion' to 'improve design quality'.
"... It says that 'architecture, the built environment and an understanding of "place"' should be taught in some subjects at school, but not as a standalone subject.
"Other suggestions include giving councillors who vote on planning decisions 'basic training', to ensure that new developments are sympathetic to their surroundings.*
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| Link to The Farrell Review |
* "giving councillors who vote on planning decisions 'basic training', to ensure that new developments are sympathetic to their surroundings"
- as with Barnet's Jan 2014's decision?
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| Apparently, "not in Phase One" was changed from "now in Phase One" |
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