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Written Question
Housing: Design
Monday 9th March 2020

Asked by: Baroness Stroud (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report A housing design audit for England, published on 21 January, which found that the majority of new housing developments audited were considered mediocre or poor.

Answered by Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist

We have received and read the report with interest. The authors of the report provided evidence from their audit to the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission and it has informed the recommendations within the final report. The Government will be issuing their final response to the Commission’s report in due course.