Design review in the UK

摘要

As a recent and unprecedented debate in the UK parliament revealed, widespread concern exists regarding the generally poor standards of urban design across the UK, particularly in the speculative housing sector (Hansard 2018). Many argue that concerns about the poor quality of new buildings, public spaces and associated infrastructure play strongly into anti-development attitudes. Indeed, surveys into the social attitudes to new development consistently reveal that the promise of 'better' design is amongst the factors most likely to garner public support for development. Citing such evidence, the 2017 Housing White Paper in England argued that: 'Good design is fundamental to creating healthy and attractive places where people genuinely want to live' and that 73% of people say they would support building more places if they were well designed (DCLG 2017). Similar sentiments are expressed in the other nations of the UK, as reflected in the Scottish Government's 2013 statement, Creating Places, which argues that the design of the built environment can form a focus around which communities can cohere (Scottish Government 2013).