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UPDATE: 5/3/14 Park Hill today Utopian estate left to die

Last October 20th I attended a sales talk and presentation by Urban Splash masquerading as an architectural tour.  On the walk that followed I met a fellow blogger, was shown round Park Hill in record time, took a lot of pictures and wrote about what I’d seen.

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Thanks to a member of  Sheffield City Council myself and a friend were allowed access to 187 Norwich Row to see what living conditions are like there.

Click image for panorama from kitchen balcony
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This will become an article at some point but just for now enjoy the pictures.  Two large panoramas of Gleadless Valley and its housing. The same series of photographs but saved at different resolutions.

Panoramic 11764 x 1330 pixels 2.21Mb in size >click here<

Panoramic 23528 x 2660 pixels 7.75Mb in size >click here<

My Gleadless Valley photos on Flickr:-  Gleadless Valley photos here

https://www.welivehere.co.uk/valley_brit_print.html

I had to laugh.  That’s what somebody typed into Google (in the title) before reaching my page on crap flats.  I had no idea they were designed I thought they were the space left over when the requisite number of en-suite bedrooms and toilets had been put in along with the composite living/dining area.  I cannot seriously imagine design ever coming into it.

Look through this blog and all the TW kitchens you’ll see here will be units stuck along a wall or around a corner or as an afterthought (mostly) without windows to look out of.

Thank you 109.149.4.xx for making my day.

Taylor Wimpey aren’t the only ones.  Read my post on Kidbrooke Village – Phase One or Pepys Estate and what you find is that Berkeley Homes also regard it as acceptable not to include a separate kitchen in either their new developments or their redevelopments.  They are not even pretending to approach open plan, they are just dumping a line of units along the wall in a room as an apology for a kitchen.