Boundary Estate shadow threat from new towers
March 29th, 2015
New towers on the edge of the City of London are set to put one of the country’s oldest social housing projects in the shade . . . https://portfolio.cpl.co.uk/CIBSE/201504/general-news/
City Villages – Adonis & others
March 25th, 2015
Carpenters Estate – @FocusE15
March 19th, 2015
Fighting the System – BBC3
I’ve still got some clips from this, drop me a line sometime and I’ll put them on Youtube.
Documentary about four extreme protesters who are using direct action, risking their safety, their freedom and their futures, to force their way to change.
This used to be an article about Carpenters but the BBC have withdrawn the film and it’s not on Youtube so this is just a marker point now that the film was ever made.
I’ve got the film or part of it on a DVD somewhere, it’s a question of digging it out and uploading it.
Ken Loach in the Guardian
March 18th, 2015
Lambeth MIPIM display board
March 17th, 2015
Click image for full size pdf
Source: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/display_panel_at_mipim_property
Student reading list – housing
February 1st, 2015
Since starting this blog I have been approached by a number of University students asking for information about housing design, housing estates, and related matters. Rather than creating a new list each time I am putting the list here.
Manor Estate Sheffield
The category groupings that follow are general owing to the overlap in subject matter among the papers many of which fall into more than one category. This rather arbitrary list is intended as a starting point for your housing research and is by no means a definitive guide.
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Cressingham Gardens: Housing debate live blog
December 11th, 2014
UPDATE: Audio now available Housing Debate audio Right click and Save As to download file. I won’t be transcribing this debate.
If you see this and want to join us then head to Holy Trinity & St Matthias Church Tulse Hill (Herne Hill or Tulse Hill overground or Brixton tube then walk / bus) for 7.15pm
The panel for this evening’s debate is made up of the following. For their details click the photos.
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| Jon’ B | Michael E | Matt’ B | Dave H | Chris B | Marcia C | Paul W |
| Candidate | Academic | Councillor | Journalist | Developer | Councillor | Academic |
| Green | UCL | Labour | Guardian | Igloo | Labour | Birkbeck |
The Twitter hashtag is #HousingQT. To contact me this evening email debate@singleaspect.org.uk or Tweet @housingonfilm
Welfare Reform Act – from the Lords public gallery 2009
November 26th, 2014
This was written over five years ago by a lady visiting the House of Lords public gallery to witness the passage of the Welfare Reform Act. It tells you everything you need to know about the attitudes of both New Labour and the present Coalition with regard to welfare recipients. Despite the passage of time nothing would appear to have changed. The Compass link no longer works but I can assure you the text is genuine and unaltered. If you’re thinking of voting Labour next year that’s worth bearing in mind.
Labour, wake up, or you’re going to lose
November 8th, 2014
It’s not the messenger it’s the message. They are so lightweight they don’t stand a chance of gaining the support they so badly need.
Where is the fire to save the NHS, to bring the railways back into public ownership, the utilities, to fight the EU on competition rules and bring the Royal Mail back into public ownership? Where is the determination to borrow to build council houses, an investment that will pay for itself in employment and by creating an asset for future generations?
Where is the will to plan a realistic minimum wage and not £8ph by 2020?
They’re not losing support because Ed Miliband doesn’t look like a PM, they’re losing support because nobody who might once have voted for them has any conviction that they are willing to fight for Labour values any more. In fact I find myself wondering what they do stand for when all the things I would expect them to be campaigning for are watered down or missing.
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Clement Attlee came over worse than Ed Miliband on film but his party supported policies that have served us to this day in creating a just society, dismantled as they maybe as we speak. Described as “a modest little man with a lot to be modest about” by Churchill he nevertheless laid the foundations for a far more equal society than had existed before the war. It’s not about the leader it’s about the policies and the manifesto and as I write this today Labour are working to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Cressingham Gardens: Lambeth’s jewel in the crown
October 18th, 2014
Cressingham Gardens need to be repaired, restored and retained in my opinion for the following reasons.
It was designed and built at a time when housing ideals were at their highest and at a period still influenced by the aftermath of the Second World War when housing need was as great if not greater than now, when some of the best minds of a generation had come together in one place – at County Hall in London under the LCC then GLC and later, the boroughs – to work in the architects departments.