SPS actively promotes and celebrates good design
We challenge the idea that there is a choice between volume and quality.
We campaign through the planning system for new homes to be built in the most sustainable locations and to make a positive contribution to the local area through the site selection, their design, careful landscaping and use of high quality materials.
The Government is fully committed to ambitious home building targets. Challenging new housing development applications that are compliant with adopted council policy and in a “sustainable” location is extremely difficult against the current permissive backdrop.
Today we therefore campaign for development that is sustainable, proportionate and appropriate and we resist speculative applications which are in unsustainable locations and which will harm the surrounding area.
We believe that if new housing developments are well designed and meet the needs and expectations of communities, they are more likely to be welcomed, rather than resisted, by communities.
Our charitable objects of protecting and promoting the special qualities of Suffolk’s landscape and heritage while allowing for growth are ever more relevant.