The joy and intent of our proposals is that like and will support based on the numerous local and many of them rely not on increased budgets but on national polls we have conducted and the hundreds of changed incentives and ‘bringing the democracy design workshops that we have run from Scotland to forward’ from the development control system to Somerset and from Cornwall to Cumbria. [...] not just the supply of desperately needed new homes but also the range of self-build, custom-build and local housebuilders able to supply the market.2 THE CREATE STREETS MANIFESTO FOR HOMES, HOPE AND HEALTH 3 Create homes in existing places councils an ‘easy to implement’ option to pre- so as to improve neighbourhoods permit locally popular intensification of thousands of existing streets and perm. [...] These can pre-permit certain a Neighbourhood Plan and draft the secondary designs in certain places with the local plan and legislation that would allow the Mayor of should be used alongside the new requirement London to make Mayoral Development Orders for authority-wide design codes in the Levelling (MDOs).6 Neighbourhood Planning should be Up and Regeneration Act (LURA). [...] The current Transport and Works Act (TWAO) is due to details in the New Roads and Street approval process should be devolved and a Works Act 1991, The Streets Works (Sharing of ‘TWAO light; process should be created to Costs of Works) Regulation 2000 and the Transport remove the ‘heavy rail’ regulatory asks which and Works Act 1992. [...] However, done with love and ambition, and with the high courage that will be required to break ‘business as usual’, Greater Cambridge can also help the British 12 THE CREATE STREETS MANIFESTO FOR HOMES, HOPE AND HEALTH a mile) of existing train lines to provide up to 3 And stop making things worse! million homes.
- Pages
- 17
- Published in
- United Kingdom
Table of Contents
- The Create Streets pledge card for more homes gentle density and greening up for stronger towns affordable neighbourhoods and sustainable living patterns. 3
- Introduction 3
- Create homes in existing places so as to improve neighbourhoods 4
- Bring the democracy forward and legalise new housing which people like. 4
- Legalise a new generation of mansion blocks. 6
- Ask the people what they like. 6
- Reinvent box land for more homes. 7
- Put housing targets back into the system. 8
- Improve existing places helping them become greener safer to move through and more prosperous. 8
- Let the people grow Green up our streets and squares for healthier neighbourhoods and cleaner air. Greening Up 8
- Build on our road belt and restitch our left-behind towns. Moving towards growth Restitching our social fabric 9
- Move free. Stop highways departments from preventing beautiful streets and reducing housing delivery. Move Free. Move Free 9
- Create civic and public buildings which elevate and dont degrade their neighbourhoods. 9
- Create homes more easily in beautiful and sustainable gentle density new places. 10
- Stop using obscure highways modelling mistakes to ban new homes instead use vision-led transport modelling. Stepping off the Road to Nowhere Becoming a nation of townbuilders. 10
- Create new neighbourhoods and new towns at gentle density. 10
- Create trams. 11
- Create Greater Cambridge . Greater Cambridge 12
- Create beautiful and popular new homes and buildings on the grey belt. 12
- Legalising grey belt development. 13
- Near for far swaps. 13
- And stop making things worse 13
- Dont ban sash windows and large windows. 13
- Stop street scars. Street Scar 14
- Its time to stop design apartheid. New Part O Building Regulations are effectively banning sash windows and large windows above the ground floor particularly in poorer neighbourhoods 14
