The pandemic will leave a lasting legacy on the design of our towns and cities in the form of joyless “lockdown schemes”, a leading developer has warned.

In a few years we will be able to look around and identify the “monuments to this terrible time”, said Colm Lacey, managing director of Brick by Brick, Croydon council’s development arm.

Everyone being forced to work from home sucked the personality from every stage of development, from deals to design, he told Building Design.

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