Where Éire leads . . . don’t follow
March 19th, 2010
UPDATE: 28th Nov 16 – They’ve shot themselves in the foot with the most recent release of the Dublin City Development Plan which downgrades the previously high standards set for city centre apartments.
. . . we might follow. The documents linked below show clearly how Dublin has taken the lead in housing design quality and why England lags behind. I can cite several examples of single aspect (and|or) cramped new housing developments in the UK, some linked from this website, how refreshing it is to find someone somewhere doing it better.
“Single-aspect dwellings must be avoided where possible and no Northern or Eastern single-aspect dwellings are allowed, thereby requiring new apartments to be dual aspect and eliminating corridor developments at a stroke.”
CABE has been saying similar things for some time but nobody appears to be listening . . . read on
and the document they refer to Sustainable Urban Housing