Lords to debate built environment quality
Richard Rogers will be one of several peers debating architecture and design quality in the House of Lords on 27 March.
The House of Lords will debate architecture and design quality next week for the first time in four years.
The debate, called by Lord Howarth of Newport, will ‘call attention to the case for encouraging high-quality architecture in the United Kingdom and for ensuring that design quality is taken into account by local planning authorities,’ according to the Government Whips website and to move for papers..
The former architecture minister Lord Howarth will lead the debate, which will inform views of the Planning Bill, due to be debated in the Lords after Easter. Baroness Andrews of the communities department will be the government minister responding to the debate.
The debate starts at 2.30pm on Thursday 27 March and will end at approximately 5pm. It can be watched live online at http://www.parliamentlive.tv/
The House of Lords will debate architecture and design quality next week for the first time in four years.
The debate, called by Lord Howarth of Newport, will ‘call attention to the case for encouraging high-quality architecture in the United Kingdom and for ensuring that design quality is taken into account by local planning authorities,’ according to the Government Whips website and to move for papers..
The former architecture minister Lord Howarth will lead the debate, which will inform views of the Planning Bill, due to be debated in the Lords after Easter. Baroness Andrews of the communities department will be the government minister responding to the debate.
The debate starts at 2.30pm on Thursday 27 March and will end at approximately 5pm. It can be watched live online at http://www.parliamentlive.tv/
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