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This is a building I like, featured in an article for Building Design magazine.

Click photo for location from Google Earth

A company has taken over the building in question and are going to convert it from flats into a single riverside house. I don’t have a take on this, I like the building.  My complaints on this blog are about poorly designed and managed housing.  This is a private house by the river, what’s not to like?  I like the Art Deco reference of the semicircular staircase (think Bexhill). There is a similar one in Rotherhithe diagonally opposite about half a mile away.

Details here in the D&A downloaded from the Tower Hamlets planning department:-

Design-Access-Statement-541133.pdf

An article in Private Eye No.1274 dated 29/10-11/11 about the possible selling off of council assets (translation – buildings paid for by rate payers over the years) to developers, has prompted consideration of the way things used to be and how life for all of us might be better if they still were.

I was recently prompted into thinking about these things by a fellow blogger who pointed me to his take on the Big Society.  After reading his thoughts here:-

https://ukregeneration.org.uk/2010/11/29/the-big-society-age-%E2%80%93-now-it%E2%80%99s-official/

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