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Advice: Effective design review
Design review panels can be valuable in supplementing a local authority's urban design skills and helping to integrate large schemes, finds Ben Kochan.
Review: Terraced housing regeneration
In Liverpool's Welsh Streets two-up, two-down Victorian terraced housing is being regenerated to create modern homes with a variety of unit sizes and open plan layouts, finds Michael Cosser.
Advice: Promoting housing for people to downsize into
Planning policies are needed to encourage under-occupiers of large family housing to encourage them to 'downsize' to smaller and more convenient homes, finds Ben Kochan.
Review: Housing estate regeneration
Cross-subsidy from private housing allowed Camden Council to fund new and improved social homes on the Maiden Lane estate, but the approach called for some compromise, finds Ben Wrighton.
Advice: Using offsite construction methods for new housing
Offsite approaches can produce high quality and environmentally efficient homes, but it's important to ensure the system allows the flexibility to deliver good design quality too, finds Ben Kochan.
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