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Expert advice to help create better places

CABE stands for the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.

From 1999 to 2011 CABE gave independent advice to help people create better buildings and spaces. Read more about our work.

Housing

Improving homes and neighbourhoods

Public space

Better parks, streets and squares

Planning

Promoting good design throughout the planning system

London 2012

Supporting a high quality legacy of buildings and spaces

Sustainability

Promoting sustainable design and sustainable living

Inclusive design

Ensuring that places contribute to an equal, inclusive and cohesive society

Health and wellbeing

Promoting healthy lifestyles through design

School design

Helping clients to create well-designed learning environments

300+ publications

Creating excellent buildings

Expert advice for people commissioning and managing building projects.
Creating successful masterplans

Managing development projects above the scale of single buildings.
Large scale urban design

Dealing with the economic, social and environmental challenges of large areas.
Open space strategies

Practical guidance to local authorities on how to prepare, deliver, monitor and review an open space strategy.
This way to better residential streets

Street design briefing aimed at planners, urban designers and highway professionals..
Space in new homes

Supporting the case for more space in private homes, to ensure that they are functional, flexible and fit for purpose.
Planning for places

Helping local authorities take a spatial approach to writing their core strategy as part of a local development framework.