Towards an Urban Renaissance
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Towards an Urban Renaissance was a report written by the United Kingdom's Urban task force headed by (Lord) Richard Rogers and published on 29th June 1999. It examined the question of how 4 million projected new homes over 25 years, might be accommodated in the UK without further encroachment into the green belt.
[edit] Key Recommendations
- Design-led urban regeneration process and the designation of special urban policy areas.
- Reform of the planning system and involvement of local people in decision making and neighbourhood level.
- The building of 60% of new housing as schemes on Brownfield land.
- Better use of existing Housing stock.
- The relaxation of Local Planning Authority's standards relating to density and Separation distances between dwellings
- The better integration of housing with highways (relaxation of parking standards and designing the roads aronud the housing rather than the housing around the roads).
- Improve non-car transport.
- Better quality design.
[edit] Influences
Towards an Urban Renaissance was influential in the re-writing of Planning policy guidance note 3:Housing
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