Beauty for the many not just the few

Only a minority in social rented housing feel they have access to beauty.

Nick Faith: Speak up for the pro-building majority

Evidence suggests Britain is not a nation of nimbys. With the right incentives and a new approach to local engagement, we can build the infrastructure we need.

Duncan Sim: Communities should have a local right to beauty

Localism should empower people to control how their area looks, not just to influence the hard economics.

Commuting – a public health disaster

A long journey to and from work will make you fat, stressed and unhappy.

A Conservative councillor: Why was Cheshire West and Chester a Labour gain?

The council leader behaved as though concreting over historic Chester was the most important thing in the world.

Cllr David Burbage: What about a Southern Powerhouse?

It is not just northern councils that want the flexibility to improve infrastructure.

Edward Douglas: We need bold action to tackle the housing crisis

Res Publica proposes a radical programme of local empowerment and coordination to win consent for the new building this country needs.

Polling shows public will back housing development if it is beautiful

Support for new housing is three times higher if it is traditional than if it is modernist.

Cllr John Williams: An exciting victory in Taunton Deane

Now we need to improve our infrastructure to keep pace with housing growth.

How modernist architects justify unpopular buildings 

Abstraction has its place – in modern art that no one is forced to look at or an experimental novel that no one has to read.

Cllr Mario Creatura: It’s time to write the Brownfield Domesday Book

London’s boroughs don’t have a detailed record of all the brownfield land within their borders – they should.

UKIP take charge in Thanet

But how will the Party of protest cope with power?

Judy Terry: Let’s boost Local Enterprise Partnerships

LEPs should be allowed to help improve the housing supply.

A tribute to Pickles – the CLG Secretary who championed Council Taxpayers over vested interests

Now he has an important new role as the Anti-Corruption Tsar.

American Conservatives are embracing “New Urbanism” – and so should their British counterparts

Traditional institutions are strengthened by traditional architecture.