The man overseeing the set-up of the government’s new housing design advisor, the Office for Place, has rejected the suggestion the body is just a reheated version of Cabe, the design quango scrapped by the Coalition in 2011.

In the first part of an exclusive interview with Housing Today, Nicholas Boys Smith, chair of the advisory board overseeing the set up of the unit, said the Office for Place was “not Cabe 2”, and was being set up to achieve different things.

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