Towards an Urban Renaissance was a report written by the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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's Urban Task Force headed by (Lord) Richard Rogers

Richard Rogers

Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside CH Kt FRIBA FCSD is a British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs....

 and published on 29 June 1999. It examined the question of how 4 million projected new homes over 25 years, might be accommodated in the UK without further encroachment into the green belt or other areas of countryside.

Key Recommendations

• Design-led urban regeneration process and the designation of special urban policy areas.
• Reform of the planning system and involvement of local people in decision making and neighbourhood level.
• The building of 60% of new housing as schemes on Brownfield land.
• Better use of existing Housing stock.
• The relaxation of Local Planning Authority
  Local Planning Authority
  A local planning authority is the local authority or council that is empowered by law to exercise planning functions for a particular area of the United Kingdom. Although, in Scotland, where all of the local authorities are unitary, the term 'planning authority' is used without the 'local'...
  
  's standards relating to density and separation distances between dwellings
• The better integration of housing with highways (relaxation of parking standards and designing the roads around the housing rather than the housing around the roads).
• Improve non-car transport.
• Better quality design.

Influences

Towards an Urban Renaissance was influential in the re-writing of Planning policy guidance note 3:Housing

PPG 3

Planning Policy Guidance Note 3: Housing, commonly abbreviated as PPG 3, is a document produced by the British Government to advise local planning authorities on the treatment of housing within the planning process. The current version was introduced in March 2000 following the Rogers Report and...