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Strategic Vision At a time when the local authorities are seeing the need for new housing stock surpass the ability of the market to supply units — the idea of ‘consent & implement’ proposed by Baylight, could be a viable alternative to flattening and redeveloping entire brown field sites in order to achieve inner city densification. The ‘consent and implement ‘approach appeals in its possibility of incentivizing SME developers, who tend to work on a quick turn around of projects and might be more flexible in their procurement structure. This in turn allows us the opportunity to explore a more diverse set of functional typologies and design — that address the specific needs of the demographic of the neighborhood and encourage proactive community engagement. As part of the design process we have taken the challenge of construction within inner city sites as a powerful constraint which defines the design solutions. We are working with Crispin and his team, towards developing modular systems which would address the multi-layered requirements of — speed of construction, flexibility in unit configurations and the potential for incremental growth on-site — in a creative way.