Housing commission final report recommends fruit trees and "fast track for beauty"
The UK government's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission, has recommended urban orchards and incentivising developers by fast-tracking planning for attractive housing.
The report, titled Living with Beauty, was published this morning, 30 January 2020. It recommended planting trees, giving powers to local authorities to set design standards, and tax breaks for retrofitted buildings.
Set up in November 2018, the commission's aim was to investigate how millions of homes can be built
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