“The right to buy council homes remains iniquitous”
November 23rd, 2011
I do love my readers. So often somebody will type something into Google which sums up the situation better than I have so far and either leads me on to new knowledge or summarises a situation very well. Such is the above (from Norwich I think). If it was you, thank you and I hope you enjoyed reading through the long exchange between myself and Mizzentop the other day at https://www.singleaspect.org.uk/?p=9450
Guardian housing articles
November 22nd, 2011
UPDATE: – Jules Birch has written a much better article on this subject.
The Guardian has a couple of good articles on housing today with the usual range of comments from which I’m picking out a few. Rob Williams has been good enough to link to my pages on the Parker Morris tables which has pulled in a few hits.
How would you like to live in a hobbit home, Grant Shapps?
https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/22/grant-shapps-new-build-homes
Single aspect apartment plans
October 24th, 2011
From time to time I look at the stats and find out what people have been searching for. This often forms a useful guide as to the kind of information I ought to be researching and providing as a reference point. In this case the title came from a web search and I hope the querent found what they were looking for but for future reference the answer is quite simple since a fellow blogger, Hussein at https://www.designofhomes.co.uk/ has done a lot of work on this subject resulting in the (edited) graphic linked below which illustrates many depressingly similar single aspect apartment plans.
https://www.designofhomes.co.uk/028-dismal-state-of-housing-design.html
RIBA Housing Conference – Q & A
October 13th, 2011
This is the record of a live blog conducted by Su Butcher of https://www.justpractising.com/riba-housing-2011/ at the RIBA Housing Conference at Robinson College
Reconvening for a Question time Panel:
John Lefever Hastoe HA,
Peter Studdert of Peter Studdert Planning,
Harry Rich, Chair of panel and CEO of RIBA (https://twitter.com/harryprich)
Glen Richardson of Cambridge City Council
Alex Ely of Mae Architects (https://twitter.com/alexely)
Thursday October 13, 2011 4:23 Su Butcher
RIBA Housing Conference – Housing development workshop
October 13th, 2011
This is the record of a live blog conducted by Su Butcher of https://www.justpractising.com/riba-housing-2011/ at the RIBA Housing Conference at Robinson College
Creative housing development solutions – Richard Owers, NRAP Architects and Simon Payne, Cambridge City Council
Workshop speakers : Richard Owers of NRAP Architects and Glen Richardson
Thursday October 13, 2011 2:56 Su Butcher
The Workshop on how architects and planners can influence volume house builders to meet the needs and desires of the next generation.
Audience is about 1/3 non-architects.
Thursday October 13, 2011 2:57 Su Butcher
RIBA Housing Conference – Alex Ely
October 13th, 2011
This is the record of a live blog conducted by Su Butcher of https://www.justpractising.com/riba-housing-2011/ at the RIBA Housing Conference at Robinson College.
The next presentation is by Alex Ely https://twitter.com/alexely
Thursday October 13, 2011 11:48 Su Butcher
RIBA Housing Conference – Anna Minton
October 13th, 2011
This is the record of a live blog conducted by Su Butcher of https://www.justpractising.com/riba-housing-2011/ at the RIBA Housing Conference at Robinson College.
Anna Minton is going to talk about her work with the RIBA on a report on the future delivery of housing – ‘Homes Fit for a New Century’.
She’s going to talk a bit about the historic legacy, but also solutions for the future. This is a work in progress so please get in touch with her if issues raised here prompt you to want to be involved.
Thursday October 13, 2011 11:10 Su Butcher
Deck access
October 12th, 2011
https://vintage-everyday.blogspot.com/2011/10/b-london-photographs-in-1883.html
Hulme on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1qpf9hogI0
Bison Wall System
World in Action 1977 – Bison Wall System
https://hailesmatters.wordpress.com/2010/06/24/the-road-to-wester-hailes/
Conflict between the literal description of what they are and the perjorative and negative associations that have come to be aligned with that form of construction. Again owing to management and not design.
Blakelaw Newcastle
https://www2.newcastle.gov.uk/cab2006.nsf/allbykey/72377EB9B21F8DDB8025729D0055B7B7/$FILE/5c%20-%20blakelaw%20deck%20access.pdf
https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3014/1/DX076681.pdf
Or locally here Blakelaw
https://www.yhn.org.uk/pdf/MainBoard27Feb07BlakelawDeckAccessItem8.pdf
Castlefields, Runcorn
Is the Maiden Lane Estate Listed?
September 25th, 2011
Somebody typed the heading into Google today and I thought I’d answer the question. Last year some estates in Camden were listed following a recommendation by the C20th Society. Branch Hill and Dunboyne Road but Maiden Lane was left out. I don’t know why, perhaps it’s because it’s the least attractive for want of maintenance, perhaps it’s because it’s the most isolated, perhaps it was considered the least architecturally significant.
The cynic in me thinks that because it’s less than a mile from the Eurostar terminal it would make a good location for a hotel but why on earth would a Tory coalition be supporting property developers? That’s unheard of isn’t it?
There was an article at the time https://www.culture.gov.uk/news/news_stories/7359.aspx
If you want to know more the best place for news is their own estate website maidenlaneestate[dot]org or my own visit to Maiden Lane.
The Case for Space – RIBA fights its corner
September 21st, 2011
Last week the RIBA published their report on small homes entitled The Case for Space making a perfectly rational and objective argument that British new homes are the smallest in Europe and ought to be larger.
The above is for illustration only and not intended as an example of a small flat
Judging by the hysterical reaction of the house builders and two leading people in the industry you would think the RIBA had somehow shot themselves in the foot.