Towards an Urban Renaissance
- Towards an Urban Renaissance
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 or other areas of countryside.
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 around the housing rather than the housing around the roads).
*Improve non-car transport.
*Better quality design.
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