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Facts For
Thought
3.8 million homes are needed in the next 25 years
40% of Britain's homes were built before 1919
In the next 20 years 80% of
new households will be single households
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'The Benefits of Daylight Through
Windows'
A study of the impact of daylight on human performance
and workplace productivity; human health: and financial return
on investment . These impacts of daylight are reviewed for
buildings that are used for work and for which day lighting
has been extensively studied, namely offices, schools,
hospitals, and retail stores. This literature review examines
the benefits and problems of both daylight, as light, and
windows, as the most common used method to deliver daylight.
Click Here To Read The Report
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CABE survey on how local
authorities manage design issues - Only:
48% of local authorities have a qualified designer in
their planning department
38% of
local authorities have a registered architect in their
planning department
23% of
local authority planning departments make use of a design
panel in assessing the design quality of planning
applications in general (not including Conservation Area
Committees)
32% of
local authorities run design award schemes
20% of
local authorities have a ‘design champion’ to promote the
cause of good design across all areas of the authority’s
activities
22% of
local authorities have refused planning permission
principally on design grounds in more than 20 instances in
the past year |
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By
looking closely at our surroundings and analysing what we see,
adults and children alike can learn to identify and interpret
the design and impact of the built environment all around
them. From this they can develop a personal point of view
about design quality and a critical response to the built
environment.
Even though the built environment has such a wide
subject range that can provide lessons across the curriculum,
the study of the built environment instils a greater sense of
community and society. It develops a more informed, confident
and demanding person, equipped with a sense of ownership, to
participate in making a difference to their own built
environment. But who's doing what to educate the nation and
what can we do locally as a community?
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DCMS is exploring with the Department for Education &
Skills how an understanding of the built environment might
best be brought into our schools, possibly through including
urban development case studies in teaching materials for the
citizenship strand of the national curriculum. 
design
through increasing access to opportunities for learning about
and through the built environment. Their web site offers great
information on:
