Single aspect III
March 11th, 2010
UPDATE: October 2016 Similar crap to the original Barber plans now going up in Kidbrooke, see Crap Flats for details on Urban Houses – spit.
UPDATE: 10/3/14 Work on site at Ashchurch Villas
UPDATE: 3/12/12
The two plots 282/292 were subsequently sold to First Base who short listed four practices of which two are known to be PTEa and MAE, the project was given to PTEa after each practice gave a presentation of their intended plans.
“25% of the apartment is stairs….”
Click the image for full site plan
Sometimes it feels like 1937 again. Allow me to explain. Within the last few years, following a conversation with my Father (an architect) about Quarry Hill in Leeds, which he had studied whilst training, I bought a second hand copy of Model Estates by Alison Ravetz and devoured it in order to continue the exchange.
More about Quarry Hill may be read here https://tinyurl.com/22wmmwg or here
Quarry Hill from Leodis
and should this ever change or be removed then you may read the same material here
Discovering Leeds – Poverty and Riches
Early on in the book the author points out that despite the 1909 Act outlawing the building of back to backs, they continued to be built in Leeds until 1937 because the authorisation for those had already been agreed prior to the act. Now more than 100 years after the act of 1909 we have plans such as the following being passed now “pending decision” (21/6/2010) with little or no comment, until just the other day.
Ravenscourt Park 282 – 288 Goldhawk Road London W12 9PF
Ref: 2009/02757/FUL
Going to:-
and typing the application numbers will enable you to look at the planning application in detail. The above was just an introduction to what I want to say.
If you view the “Associated Documents” for 2009/02757/FUL and select PROPOSED GA 1ST FLOOR PLAN you will see that the layout is that of “back to back” houses last built in Leeds in 1937 [citation Alison Ravetz Model Estate]. The flats are four stories high in some cases and have three party walls, and are single aspect.