What Price Good Design Of Infrastructure Projects?

Today's entry is about the extent to which good design should be a feature of nationally significant infrastructure projects.

Everyone agrees that the built environment should be designed to a high standard, but what does the Planning Act regime have to say about this and to what extent does it require it?  How much might an independent review of a project's design cost?  Read on.

On 31 May I attended a discussion convened by the Design Council CABE, and there was an interesting discussion about incorporating design into nationally significant infrastructure projects (NSIPs).  CABE stands for the Commission on Architecture and the Built Environment, and it recently merged with the Design Council as a result of the government's quango-cutting.  They are now a charity promoting design in the public interest.