Housing standards
June 5th, 2010
This week brings some good news winging its way into my inbox from CABE about raising housing standards . . .
2010 will be a pivotal year for housing standards. We know from our work around the country that many local authorities are looking at setting their own standards for their local area.
. . . as a direct result surely of their very public spat with the HCA over funding Kickstart schemes known to have scored poorly on the Building for Life criteria.
Since the deletion of the ‘Parker Morris Standard’ as a benchmark for the public funding of council housing in 1980, there has been growing concern over the decline of space in new homes and the potential problems this creates for households. Put another way, there has been concern for the ‘loss of benefits’ that reduced space in homes brings.
https://www.cabe.org.uk/files/space-standards-the-benefits.pdf
Cannon Place – Cannon Street London
June 5th, 2010
This has been a difficult week trying to identify an appropriate item about housing to highlight. Watching the emails come in with different items of building news. There was the intriguing and fascinating Cannon Street cantilever . . .
Click the picture above to see the full design
Finding somewhere to lay the foundations for an office block above London’s Cannon Street station proved so difficult, the engineers had to call on the structural principles of the Forth Bridge to get the job done
https://www.building.co.uk/technical/support-act-cannon-place/5000302.article
. . . which I went to see on Thursday 3rd June. It’s a fascinating sight, photo in due course I hope. However it’s not housing, that’s why this article is filed under Thoughts.