Architects could be given more flexible routes to registration in what is being described as the biggest shake-up to the profession in half a century.

The Architects Registration Board (Arb) is proposing to open up new ways of becoming registered as an architect to increase the diversity of a sector historically dominated by people who are white and middle class.

It means that a greater emphasis will now be placed on an architect’s competences rather than what the body admitted is currently an “excessively bureaucratic” focus on process.

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