Design Council Homes Taskforce
Advising the government on the design challenge of creating 1.5 million homes within the UK’s legally-binding climate commitments.
Creating 1.5 million homes within legal climate commitments is a critical design challenge.
Solving Britain’s housing crisis is an urgent challenge and critical strategic opportunity. The new government has committed to creating “more high-quality, well-designed, and sustainable homes and creating places that increase climate resilience and promote nature recovery”.
We have established the Design Council Homes Taskforce (DCHT) to act a trusted partner to government. The Taskforce will convene Design Council Experts, industry leaders, and policymakers to develop advice on the practical delivery of design quality in housing development and refurbishment at scale.
By placing quality at the heart of its housebuilding programme, ensuring low carbon construction of new homes and maximising the upgrading of existing buildings, the government has an opportunity to unlock unprecedented growth in sustainable housing development and refurbishment, while keeping within the UK’s carbon budgets.
Great design is how we will not only build the homes we need but ensure they are fit for purpose and long lasting while regenerating our communities and the environment.
Introducing the Taskforce
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The Design Council Homes Taskforce are reviewing policy recommendations from across the built environment industry to shape the advice to government. If you are an organisation developing housing policy proposals – whether as a design practice, think tank, local authority, or industry body – please get in touch.
Sophus zu Ermgassen et.al. (2023)
DEFRA
A housing design audit for England