The Construction Leadership Council has published a comprehensive set of joint recommendations to the Government from built environment professionals: ‘Building A Safer, Healthier And More Sustainable Future For All’ identifies key actions the Government can take to enhance our country’s wellbeing and productivity by ensuring a safer, healthier, and more sustainable built environment for all.
They are calling on the Government to:
- Encourage a stronger focus on blue-green infrastructure (BGI) measures within all Government departments, such as accounting for BGI within asset management processes in public sector projects.
- Work with industry stakeholders to set out a delivery schedule and introduce legislation to make Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) mandatory for new builds in England.
- Take action to expand and protect urban green spaces, by consulting immediately on mandating local authorities to use Natural England’s Green Infrastructure Framework.
- Introduce a statutory requirement to protect and provide urban green space as an integral part of plans to resolve the housing crisis.
- Improve the infection resilience of the UK’s built environment and transportation systems by implementing the recommendations of the Infection Resilient Environments report by the Royal Academy of Engineering and National Engineering Policy Centre.
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