This report sets out how we have used our social sustainability framework over the past 12 years to support new developments and regeneration schemes to become thriving communities. Our experience built up over a decade demonstrates the value of our tools to embed social sustainability in the planning, design and stewardship of place.
“Design for Social Sustainability" was first published in 2012. It set out a framework for planning, design and measurement to help housing and built environment professions improve the way they create communities as well as homes. Over a decade on, this work has fresh relevance as housing policy refocuses on housebuilding at scale. In the past we have seen too often how easy it is to overlook the social needs of communities in the drive for delivery and how this has consequences for new and longstanding residents.
