The interim report by the government-backed Building Beautiful, Building Better Commission has stopped short of offering radical solutions to the problems of ugly and inappropriate developments, according to one of its own commissioners.

The report has “not got all the answers at the moment” and is offering “nothing radical so far”, said Mary Parsons, chair of the Town & Country Planning Association and group director for placemaking and regeneration at Places for People. She was speaking at the launch of the report in London yesterday.

However Parsons did say the report, the result of months of hearings, site visits and hundreds of submissions from developers, local authorities and community groups had “captured the tone of the debate”.

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