“Act early in the planning process”: key message of 2024 conference
Lord Matthew Taylor gave the keynote address at this year’s annual Building Garden Communities Conference on Tuesday 23 April at RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London. Lord Taylor authored the 2006-8 Government rural planning review Living Working Countryside and his Garden Villages proposal was adopted as national policy at the March 2016 Budget as the Garden […]
What did the Romans do for us?
This was the question posed by Fionnuala Lennon, Head of New Settlements & Garden Communities at Homes England in her closing keynote address to 180 delegates at this year’s Garden Communities Conference at RIBA, curated by White Label. One answer is that they brought us civilisation, civitas being the Latin for city. As Fionnuala explained, […]
Garden Communities should be “modern market towns with a focus on mixed use”
Lord Taylor of Goss Moor, in his opening keynote at this year’s conference at RIBA, emphasised that in order to create successful communities, garden communities need to deliver schemes with mixed use that would include shops, cafes and open space as well as new homes – modern market towns. He explained that we now understand […]