The pandemic does not appear to have slowed down social value activity across the built environment sector. If anything, it has accelerated it. 

As my research for the CACHE covid project shows, local authorities and governments have surprised themselves at their ability to change entrenched working practices, write and ratify new laws and policy in weeks rather than years and to make key adjustments to the fabric of our towns and cities just like that. 

At the same time, they have not forgotten about the imperatives of the climate change emergency. There is a real determination to build back better.

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