The Levelling Up, Housing, and Communities Committee (LUHC) has commenced its inquiry into the impact of the built environment on children and young people’s health and well-being across England.

Around 100 written submissions were made to the inquiry prior to its January 2^nd deadline. Those that responded to the committee’s call for written evidence comprised a wide range of built environment experts, developers, and organisations, including Fiona MacDonald, Matthew Springett, Create Streets, Grosvenor, ZCD Architects and the Thornton Education Trust.

The committee began hearing evidence on Wednesday morning. Chair, Clive Betts MP stated that “Our job through this inquiry is to find out what the problems are and try and come to some solutions that we can present to ministers”.

In a pointed comment around what he suggested was a lack of clear lines of responsibility around this area within government, Betts also observed that this was dependent upon “actually finding a minister that is responsible for this area.”

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