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Architects back Scruton’s call to rewrite ‘country house clause’

By 2020-02-07T07:00:00

Model of Studio Bark's Black Barn country-house-clause scheme at Dallinighoo in Suffolk

Architects share Building Beautiful Commission’s concerns over innovation ‘loophole’

Architects have backed the Beauty Commission’s call for the so-called “country house clause” to be rewritten.

The commission’s report called for the word “innovative” to be removed from Paragraph 79 of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), which allows an isolated house to be built in open countryside in exceptional circumstances.

The wording currently says planning permission may be given where design is “truly outstanding or innovative”.

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