Enhancing the built environment

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The built environment is fundamental for community resilience. This set of themes looks at how design and maintenance can support comfort and safety, and enable social connection.

Ramp up to cottage door with pot plants

Architecture and Adaptation

View from gallery into communal lounge with doors leading to courtyard garden

Design and Shared Space

Almshouse cottage with lawn

How Size Matters

Maintenance and Opportunity

Climate and Comfort

Two older ladies doing a jigsaw

Safety and Stability

Picturesque garden shed by a path in a large lawn

Gardens

Flat roof with solar panels

Energy