50 Shades of Planning How and Where Can and Should More Homes be Built?
Sam Stafford chats with John Myers (YIMBY Alliance), Barbara Weiss (Barbara Weiss Architects) and Matt Thomson (CPRE) about how to build more and better homes and more and better places.
Adding storeys, mansion blocks and other forms of gentle densification are agreeable in principle, but how can they be encouraged in practice? Do we build up in the meantime? Not everybody likes tall buildings. Do we build out in the meantime? Lots of people like the Green Belt...
John Myers (@YimbyAlliance) worked as a lawyer, an analyst and in technology before cofounding London Yimby in 2016.
https://yimbyalliance.org/about-us/
Matt Thomson (@MattThomson42) is Head of Planning at CPRE. Matt is a professional town planner with over 15 years’ experience in local government and was formerly head of policy and practice at the RTPI.
https://www.cpre.org.uk/about-us/who-we-are/meet-our-spokespeople/
Barbara Weiss founded Barbara Weiss Architects in 1987. Barbara has been involved in the Skyline Campaign that 'aims to stop the devastation of London by badly designed tall buildings in the wrong location'.
http://www.barbaraweissarchitects.com/the-practice/people/barbara-weiss
Some reading associated with this episode:
https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/building-better-building-beautiful-commission
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2020/jan/new-housing-design-england-overwhelmingly-mediocre-or-poor
https://www.londonyimby.org/research
Some listening associated with this episode: