Back-to-back housing
March 10th, 2010
UPDATE: Now 1 Ellesmere Street Manchester multi-storey b2b
But Cabe’s chairman Paul Finch revealed the design watchdog’s misgivings in an article published in the Architects’ Journal last week.
He wrote: “I was truly shocked to see designs for back-to-back housing (two storeys, three party walls, single aspect) being given permission and Kickstart funding.
“The Planning Act of 1909 was introduced to make this sort of thing illegal.”
https://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=3159609
If you ever had any doubt that left to their own devices and without regulation, architects would revert to the hell-holes of the past then let this be a lesson to you.
There’s more . . .
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”.