Publications

Making contracts work for wildlife

Making contracts work for wildlife

Making contracts work for wildlife advises green space professionals on how to make the most of the potential for biodiversity in our urban parks.

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Supermarket-led development

Advice on how to work with supermarkets to ensure that schemes are both commercially viable and enhance the place in which they are built.

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Grey to green

Discover how to shift funding and skills to green our cities.

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Sight Line

A pioneering study shows how better street design can transform life for people with low vision, helping them to become more confident and more mobile.

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Helping local people choose good design

The network of design review panels operating across England provides local authorities and others with independent expert design advice.

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Decent homes need decent spaces

How social landlords can provide more opportunities for people to enjoy the space on their doorsteps.

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Community green

An investigation into the relationship between urban green space, inequality, ethnicity, health and wellbeing in the largest study of its kind in England.

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Improving the design of new housing

A report setting out CABE's emerging position on housing standards.

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Simpler and better

Is it too much to believe that all new homes can be good enough everywhere? Why has this proved so difficult in the past and what can we do to change it?

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Ordinary places

A starting point for debate about creating the culture and conditions to help ordinary places to become valued and valuable.

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Urban green nation

No one knows exactly how many green spaces there are in our urban areas, where they are, who owns them or what condition they are in. This report starts to fill the information gap.

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Community-led spaces

A guide to the issues involved in transferring ownership and management of public space from local authorities to community groups.

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Our school building matters

A toolkit to help teachers make the most of the learning opportunities created by building a new school or refurbishing an existing one.

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Who should build our homes?

CABE has commissioned six experts with strong views to tell us what they would change to deliver more and better housing.

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Future health

A look at how good design makes healthy places combining sustainable, health-promoting design with the latest thinking about individual health and well-being.

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The green information gap

A single, shared, information resource would help piece together the different elements of the nation’s green infrastructure.

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