High Density Housing

The potential of positive outcomes for higher density developments is dependent on creating private and public spaces and facilities to help people to positively engage with their home and communal lives.

Showhouse magazine includes a comment from us. Pieter Zitman, of Mix Developments, suggests there are three sustainable criteria for the success of any development scheme: social, economic and environmental. If any one of them is marginalised, the potential success of any scheme is likely to be undermined. For high-density schemes to be successful, developments should provide for an outward-looking community, yet sufficiently integrated and safe for all the residents.

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