Housebuilder Redrow has called on the government to do more to help deliver communities to promote social wellbeing in its Creating Britain’s New Communities report.
It has submitted 10 recommendations in the report, including a social value calculator and an industry-wide approach to post-occupancy evaluation studies. It also calls on local government to set specific social value goals in relation to housebuilding and for housebuilders to become subject to the Social Value Act 2012.
Redrow asked people across the UK what features are most important for creating thriving communities, with doctor’s surgeries and broadband coming top.
The report’s recommendations include:
• Giving communities choice
• Setting local social value goals and report on progress
• Creating attractive, social and healthy places to live through planning system
• Welcoming and orientate new people to the community
• Collaborating to achieve cohesion.
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