Gove backs new architecture school to tackle opposition to ‘ugly’ housing

By Dave Rogers2023-01-03T11:10:00

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Thinktank says its proposal would reduce objections to development by ensuring ‘a generally higher quality of architecture and placemaking’

A government-backed school of architecture would help remove opposition to new housing, a new report has argued with housing secretary Michael Gove saying in its forward too many housing developments going up are “insipid” and “indifferent”.

The Policy Exchange report, published just after Christmas, said a new School of Place would help promote “a generally higher quality of architecture and placemaking [which] could help diffuse much of the aesthetic opposition to new housing”.

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