One Ellesmere Street – Forward to the C19th
May 8th, 2013
Always happy to follow policy, architects with an interest in sustainability are today proposing eco-back-to-backs as “affordable” housing. The housing form that John Burns opposed is re-imagined as the future for subsidised housing, crammed into expensive brownfield sites. (15) These homes will get planning permission. Architects will happily delude themselves that they are designing a double-density world devoted to an age of “eco-equality”. – Audacity
The AJ from November 2012 brought unwelcome news of yet more modern back to backs passed for planning, this time in Manchester. A strong residents association in Hammersmith and Fulham successfully fought off a similar scheme by Peter Barber in the last couple of years at 282/292 Goldhawk Road but sadly a smaller version will be built in North Kensington and unless a similar group exists in Manchester these C19th dwellings will be built as designed.
https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/first-look/housing-goes-back-to-back-to-back/8639039.article (paywall or just delete AJ cookies to read it)
Maiden Lane update – PRP scheme passed 22-3-13
May 2nd, 2013
The lack of maintenance I identified here in a walk around Maiden Lane nearly three years ago is at last being addressed.
Despite my fears about it not being listed something of a C21st compromise has been achieved short of complete demolition and sale to a developer, but rather partial redevelopment on the Eastern side to generate the funds required to maintain the remainder.