Place Building – Developing Homes & Communities

This report is a summary of an event hosted in May 2025 by the University of the Built Environment, which brought together leading experts and practitioners from across the built environment, planning and policy sectors to explore how place-based, people-centred and mixed-use developments can create vibrant communities.

The report explores how better-designed places can support healthier, more sustainable and more connected communities and sets out four key recommendations, namely: embedding health and sustainability into design, introducing fiscal reforms to incentivise stewardship, scaling up regional delivery hubs, and ensuring genuine community involvement in design.