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Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment

Aims and Priorities

Children and young people

To ensure that all schools and further education colleges have built environment teaching materials that can be readily used within the national curriculum

Community

Housing and regeneration To develop a more critical consumer culture around the quality of new housing developments by providing people with the information and inspiration they need to make new choices and demands

Public Space To give people the opportunity to get more involved in the design and management of public space, including parks, streets and play areas, and to drive up local authority management standards.

Environment To communicate clearly to the outside world, based on hard empirical evidence, the ways in which a better designed built environment can deliver greater long term value to society.

Economy

Skills To develop a comprehensive skills programme for built environment professionals, making them better able to respond to the public's desire for higher quality buildings and spaces, and to make a greater contribution to economic and social well being.

Delivery

Public buildings To be confident that all new schools and all new hospitals are being purchased on a true best value basis, that prioritises quality.

Planning To ensure that the revised statutory planning system emphasises the importance of securing quality outcomes, and is delivered by better trained, more committed planners and committee members who recognise regeneration and neighbourhood renewal as their principal strategic goals.