Single Aspect Blog

Hammersmith & Fulham (H&F) Council today welcomes the return of Right to Buy, but says that local authorities should have the freedom to be able to retain all of the proceeds from the scheme so that they can build more affordable homes.

https://www.lbhf.gov.uk/Directory/News/Councils_should_retain_all_the_proceeds_from_Right_to_Buy.asp

Next week on the evening of November 30th there will be a planning meeting https://www.saveourskyline.co.uk/index.php for a scheme that will include NO affordable homes.

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I do love my readers.  So often somebody will type something into Google which sums up the situation better than I have so far and either leads me on to new knowledge or summarises a situation very well.  Such is the above (from Norwich I think).  If it was you, thank you and I hope you enjoyed reading through the long exchange between myself and Mizzentop the other day at https://www.singleaspect.org.uk/?p=9450

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UPDATE: – Jules Birch has written a much better article on this subject.

The Guardian has a couple of good articles on housing today with the usual range of comments from which I’m picking out a few. Rob Williams has been good enough to link to my pages on the Parker Morris tables which has pulled in a few hits.

How would you like to live in a hobbit home, Grant Shapps?

https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/22/grant-shapps-new-build-homes

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Millions of council tenants would be allowed to buy their homes at half price under government plans to extend the right-to-buy.  The discount, double that currently available, is part of the government’s long-awaited, and much delayed, housing strategy paper, due to be published on Monday.

https://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/nov/19/council-tenants-buy-half-price

Of course it remains to be seen if they actually implement this, if those council tenants so entitled can afford to buy, even with the discount, but clearly Cameron and Co. are determined to finish what the Iron Lady could not.

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UPDATE: 29/9/13 Oh bollocks, I was trolled. I’ve just seen this exchange on a completely different article:-

Good luck with your trolling attempts, Mizzentop / RJM1968 / BusinessLeader. Don’t work too hard – the champagne bar in the Midland Hotel will be opening soon.

https://discussion.theguardian.com/comment-permalink/27455358

Taken from:-

Austerity protesters outnumber Conservative delegates conference

I wish I’d spotted him first then I wouldn’t have wasted all that effort debating a troll. I’ll leave the rest here for you to amuse yourself with.

November 18th 2011

I’ve spent the day bashing seven bells out of the keyboard in support of council housing and against RTB in a discussion on the Guardian website with a gentleman from South Wales.

https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/16/margaret-thatcher-meryl-streep#start-of-comments

I’m Piecesofeight.

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zeldalicious

16 November 2011 8:26PM

Thatcher was guilty of the greatest sin in my book of selling off council houses. She caused the housing crisis we have now and for that I could never forgive her.

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From time to time I look at the stats and find out what people have been searching for.  This often forms a useful guide as to the kind of information I ought to be researching and providing as a reference point.  In this case the title came from a web search and I hope the querent found what they were looking for but for future reference the answer is quite simple since a fellow blogger, Hussein at https://www.designofhomes.co.uk/ has done a lot of work on this subject resulting in the (edited) graphic linked below which illustrates many depressingly similar single aspect apartment plans.

1 bed flat examples

https://www.designofhomes.co.uk/028-dismal-state-of-housing-design.html

This is the record of a live blog conducted by Su Butcher of https://www.justpractising.com/riba-housing-2011/ at the RIBA Housing Conference at Robinson College

Reconvening for a Question time Panel:

John Lefever Hastoe HA,
Peter Studdert of Peter Studdert Planning,
Harry Rich, Chair of panel and CEO of RIBA (https://twitter.com/harryprich)
Glen Richardson of Cambridge City Council
Alex Ely of Mae Architects (https://twitter.com/alexely)
Thursday October 13, 2011 4:23 Su Butcher

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This is the record of a live blog conducted by Su Butcher of https://www.justpractising.com/riba-housing-2011/ at the RIBA Housing Conference at Robinson College

Creative housing development solutions – Richard Owers, NRAP Architects and Simon Payne, Cambridge City Council

Workshop speakers : Richard Owers of NRAP Architects and Glen Richardson
Thursday October 13, 2011 2:56 Su Butcher

The Workshop on how architects and planners can influence volume house builders to meet the needs and desires of the next generation.

Audience is about 1/3 non-architects.
Thursday October 13, 2011 2:57 Su Butcher

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This is the record of a live blog conducted by Su Butcher of https://www.justpractising.com/riba-housing-2011/ at the RIBA Housing Conference at Robinson College.

The next presentation is by Alex Ely https://twitter.com/alexely
Thursday October 13, 2011 11:48 Su Butcher

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This is the record of a live blog conducted by Su Butcher of https://www.justpractising.com/riba-housing-2011/ at the RIBA Housing Conference at Robinson College.

Anna Minton is going to talk about her work with the RIBA on a report on the future delivery of housing – ‘Homes Fit for a New Century’.

She’s going to talk a bit about the historic legacy, but also solutions for the future. This is a work in progress so please get in touch with her if issues raised here prompt you to want to be involved.
Thursday October 13, 2011 11:10 Su Butcher

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