Nicholas Boys Smith to lead new government taskforce to "embed beauty" in the planning system

Create Streets founder Nicholas Boys Smith has been appointed by UK housing secretary Robert Jenrick to lead a national design body that has been tasked with "driving up design standards" for planning applications.
Boys Smith will lead a steering group that will create the government's as-yet-unnamed architecture taskforce, which will work with local communities to develop legally binding design codes. Once the group's role has been finalised he will lead it as chairperson.
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