Building Beautiful chair to head up new design quango

By Joey Gardiner2020-09-22T11:32:00

Nicholas Boys Smith will also lead ‘expert group’ to advise government on housing design

The government has asked the former chair of its Building Better Building Beautiful Commission to establish a new body to drive up housing design standards.

Nicholas Boys Smith, the founder of influential campaign group Create Streets, will oversee the setting up of the new design body, the creation of which was announced in last month’s planning white paper, Planning for the Future.

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