Records of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment: Design and...

CABE 9

1998-2011

This series contains information about enabling support for high quality urban design and masterplanning, and advice on housing design and delivery. This information is spread across a number of programmes and activities from 2000 to 2011. Early activities focused on advocacy to public sector clients delivering masterplanning projects. Following the publication of the Sustainable Communities Plan by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in 2003, enabling support expanded to projects led by local authorities, Housing Market Renewal pathfinders and local delivery bodies in housing market renewal areas and housing growth areas. Information is also provided on the design task group networks set up at this time to support these programmes. The records of the design coding pilot programme commissioned by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in 2004 are documented in this series. The Building for Life standard and assessment methodology have helped ensure housing quality is improved. The Building for Life assessor network (2008 to 2011) has helped to embed the use of Building for Life in local planning authorities decision making processes at the planning application stage. The Building for Life Awards has rewarded well designed schemes delivered by private developers and the public sector. All of the historic records for Building for Life are located here. From 2005 to 2009 CABE provided focused support to inform a future vision for the Thames Gateway and to raise standards for development through a design pact. This information is categorised under the housing growth areas programme records in this series. From 2007 to 2011 enabling support has extended to other Government funded intitiatives including Eco-towns, New Growth Points, the Homes and Communities Agency's Kickstart housing delivery programme and place based advice support to their regional teams and local authorities. In 2010 the Department for Food and Rural Affairs and Communities and Local Government set up a fund for CABE and the Homes and Communities agency to provide support to rural areas through the Rural Masterplanning Fund. All the records from these programmes are catalogued in this series.

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Acquisition Policy Criteria 3.1 To record the principal policies and actions of UK central government and to document the state's interactions with its citizens and with the physical environment

The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), was established in September 1999, as a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). CABE succeeded the former Royal Fine Art Commission (RFAC) which had been established by royal warrant in 1924 to advise on individual projects specifically referred to it by government departments and other public bodies. RFAC was eventually sponsored by the Department of the Environment and the Department fof National Heritage, but had no statutory powers and was abolished in April 1999.

CABE was funded by both DCMS and the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG).

CABE was made a statutory body by the Clean Neighbourhood and Envirnonment Act, 2005. CABE served as the government's statutory adviser on architecture, urban design and public space in England. Its remit was to influence and inspire the people making decisions about the built environment; working directly with architects, planners, designers and clients.

CABE's remit did not cover Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. The equivalent body in Scotland is Architecture and Design Scotland.