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This year, the Planning School goes Global!
“Reform the planning system!” is an evergreen refrain for those intent on political reform. This year, the central government has made it clear their intentions for change. Root and branch change. Historic change. Maybe you think this is about bloody time, or you think poor old planning is too easily made a political football.
Whatever your view, Johnson, Cummings and company have put their reforms on the table in a white paper – including simple site zoning, streamlined local plans, design codes, digitisation, and the emergence of… beauty. While many in the London planning community are aghast, some of these ideas are well known to international audiences.
So, for this year’s Planning School, we’re going to zoom out (pun intended) to place our planning system against a global backdrop. How does the UK compare against systems on three other continents? Three speakers from around the world will compare our battle-weary planning system against theirs at a pivotal time of change.
Takeshi Hayatsu will speak on Japan with a focus on Tokyo.
Takeshi Hayatsu is a Japanese architect practicing in London, and a founding director of Hayatsu Architects. He studied architecture at Musashino Art University in Tokyo and at the Architectural Association in London. Takeshi worked at David Chipperfield Architects, Haworth Tompkins and 6a architects before establishing his own practice in 2017. His practice’s current portfolio includes public commissions from arts and community led organisations, local authorities and Greater London Authority. Alongside his practice Takeshi teaches post graduate architecture studio at Kingston University. His research through practice and teaching focuses on exploring craft, material, traditional and contemporary building techniques and self-build for community engagement. ‘The Road’, an on-going participatory public realm project for the Coniston Institute and John Ruskin Museum in the Lake District, was exhibited in the RIBA exhibition ‘Making It Happen: New Community Architecture’ in 2019. Hayatsu Architects were selected in the New Architects 4, a publication by Architecture Foundation surveying the best British architectural practices established in the past ten years.
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