It is difficult to avoid the pandemic at the moment, it affects all our lives in some way. Today’s podcast will look at what lessons we might learn for how we plan the future of our homes and neighbourhoods as a result of it.

The podcast features an interview with Matthew Carmona Professor of Planning and Urban Design at The Bartlett School of Planning at UCL and Chair of the Place Alliance.

Lockdown shrank many of our worlds physically to our homes and their immediate neighbourhoods. Research out this week looking at our experience of lockdown with an interesting finding - those in the newest dwellings reported the lowest levels of comfort – we will explore why this is and what this can tell us about how we plan for the future.

Home comforts: stress testing our homes and neighbourhoods during the Covid-19 lockdown – was published this week. What does this research tell us about how we live now, and perhaps how planning and transport need to be designed in the future?

Report available here: http://placealliance.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Place-Alliance-Homes-and-Covid-Report_2020.pdf