Stirling Prize-winner calls for carbon tax on car-dependent housing

Annalie Riches at housing Negroni Talk Nov 19 (low res) (59 of 76) Pic by Luke O'Donovan

Source: Luke O'Donovan

Annalie Riches says financial incentive would help level playing field

The winner of this year’s Stirling Prize has called for a carbon tax on developers who build car-dependent suburbs.

Annalie Riches, co-founder of architect Mikhail Riches, which won the nation’s biggest architecture award for its Goldsmith Street social housing in Norwich, said it would help level the playing field for developers trying to do the right thing.

Those who take advantage of easy pickings on greenfield sites without thinking about the wider impact of their schemes would start behaving more responsibly if financial pressure were applied, she said.

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