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Coming up: Go ahead for Nationwide's Swindon homes
Nationwide Building Society has won consent for a 239 home scheme that is being created in close collaboration with its local community.
Advice: Securing design quality through the planning system
Design should be an important consideration as sites are allocated for new housing, before an outline planning application is made, finds Ben Kochan.
Coming up: Green light for wellness village
Plan to create a village on the Llanelli coast focusing on health, leisure, life sciences and extra care housing gets the go ahead.
Review: Town centre housing development
The design of Berry Court in Bournemouth is inspired by the coastal town's Art Deco buildings, but Richard Eastham asks whether the scheme needed so much car parking.
Case study: When children get the chance to shape a place
A Manchester project has explored child-friendly design by asking children to create a play structure for a planned park and prototyping the end result, finds Josephine Smit.
Coming up: Bexley backs estate regeneration
South London housing estate's 1960s-built high and low rise blocks are set to be replaced with more traditional streets of homes.
Advice: Reviving town centres by improving the historic environment
The historic cores of town centres should provide a focus for revival and townscape improvement, but local interests also need to be involved to bring in new activities, finds Ben Kochan.
Need to know: Theresa May puts focus on housing quality
Prime minister makes call for mandatory space standards for new homes in speech at Manchester housing conference.
Coming up: Green light for 1725-home Herts scheme
Housebuilder Inland Homes has won consent for a mixed use development on Tesco's former headquarters site.
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