An audit of housing design quality will examine at least 100 large-scale developments across England to help drive the construction of better-quality residential schemes.

The audit is being driven by the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) and Place Alliance, which campaigns for better-quality places for people to live and work.

The audit is being conducted by a team from the Barlett School of Planning at UCL. The work has already started and once completed later this year the findings will feed into the government’s Building Better, Building Beautiful commission.