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Delivering great places to live

20 questions you need to answer

Delivering great places to live: 20 questions you need to answer

This guide explains the 20 Building for Life standard criteria. Developers can use the 20 questions as a basis for writing development briefs, with a view to speeding up planning approvals and winning local community support. Local authorities can use them to demand high standards of design. Delivering great places to live provides a valuable tool to assess design quality in new housing schemes and should be referred to when applying for a Building for Life standard.

Published on 4 November 2008

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