Housing audit - assessing the design quality of new homes in the North East, North West and Yorkshire and Humber

Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, 2005
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Archived

Supplement

Sustainability, Environment, Development & Planning

Abstract

Part 2 of an audit of 100 recent housing developments which assesses their quality in terms of layout, urban design and placemaking, and uncovers the processes that helped to shape them. Specifically covers the North East, North West and Yorkshire and the Humber.

History

This document has been archived by the original publisher. To be read with Housing audit - assessing the design quality of new homes: London, the South East and the East of England (CABE, 2004) and Housing audit - assessing the design quality of new housing in the East Midlands, West Midlands and the South West (CABE, 2007).

ISBN

9781846330056

Subjects

  • Planning and development
  • General design information
  • Design
  • Residential development
  • Other planning disciplines

Publisher History

Now defunct, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment was the government's advisor on architecture, urban design and public space. They replaced the Royal Fine Art Commission in 1999. In April 2011, the Design Council and CABE joined to become one organisation.

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