<b>Jon Rouse is head of CABE, an organisation that has been referred to as the &amp;“design police&amp;”. He wants to see better house design, higher densities and more pre-fabrication. And he has a warning for those housebuilders not prepared to change. Ben Roskrow reports</b><br><b>Housebuilders, apparently, fall into two distinct categories. The &amp;“doers&amp;” and the &amp;“recalcitrants&amp;”. The &amp;“doers&amp;” are making a real effort to improve quality through better design, customer care and construction and are embracing the new thinking on housing development in the UK. </b><br><b>The &amp;“recalcitrants&amp;” are ignoring the new agenda and continuing along the tried and development path that has served them well for years.</b><br><b>cabe&amp;’s categories</b><br>These are the two categories applied to the industry by Jon Rouse, chief executive of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). CABE is a government funded non-statutory body which describes itself as the &amp;“nation&amp;’s champion for better places&amp;”. Others - particularly disgruntled architects and designers who find themselves on the receiving end of CABE criticism - describe it in somewhat different terms. CABE has been cattily dubbed &amp;“the design police&amp;” and accused of taking a narrow approach to architecture.<p></p><p>But the government likes its work and is backing it to maintain pressure …