What Makes a Good Home? Design Governance in Social Housing

Housing associations play a central role in defining, maintaining, and improving the design quality of new affordable homes. Their decisions are informed by national standards, internal development standards, funding requirements, procurement routes, resident needs, long-term management, and organisational priorities.

This event brings together speakers from housing associations to discuss what “good” design looks like in practice, how it is defined and measured, how key design-quality decisions are made, and what needs to change to achieve better housing quality in the future.

Speakers

Carla Smyth, Head of Design at Peabody

David Stronge, Design Director at Peabody

Elanor Warwick, Head of Strategic Policy and Research at Clarion Housing Group