The EPF responds to the call for evidence: Strategy for the built environment professions, trades and occupations
- EPF
- 2 days ago
- 1 min read
Our response
In August 2026, the Environmental Policy Forum (EPF) responded to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) Call for Evidence: Strategy for the built environment professions, trades and occupations.
We responded in writing rather than through the survey, because our evidence is cross-cutting in line with our members’ collective expertise.
Our response provides comment on the following aspects of the Strategy:
The scope.
Skills, knowledge and experience.
Interdependencies across the lifecycle.
System infrastructure: competence standards and frameworks.
Accountability, enforcement and the limits of professional bodies.
Behaviour, conduct and culture.
Cross-cutting functions: planning.
Insights from previous attempts at reform.
We end our response by offering to provide real-world examples and to convene a roundtable bringing the EPF’s disciplines together.
“Work on a building cannot be separated from work on the ground it stands on. Levels, drainage, soils, trees and external spaces determine whether the completed building fulfils its original aims."
-From the EPF response
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