1909 Housing Act<\/a><\/p>\nand the salient point there is ventilation.<\/p>\n
“if the medical officer of health for the district certifies that the several tenements are so constructed and arranged as to secure effective ventilation of all habitable rooms in every tenement”<\/p>\n
Modern back to backs and single aspect flats, have, in some cases, mechanical ventilation which I have to presume without further evidence, satisfies building control that the dwellings are fit for human habitation.<\/p>\n
I’m happy to hear from any architects who wish to contribute to this discussion. I don’t have the last word on this, I’m just looking at the law and drawing my own conclusions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There’s a discussion going on and a considerable increase in hits to my blog since somebody posted the link from:- https:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com and so I returned to thinking about whether they are illegal or not given that Ellesmere\u00a0is about to be built, and that Goldhawk Road Mk1 was nearly built.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housing-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30238,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14973\/revisions\/30238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![Goldhawk Road<\/a> Mk1 was nearly built.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe reference of course is the 1909 Housing Act for which I have a page here:-<\/p>\n1909 Housing Act<\/a><\/p>\nand the salient point there is ventilation.<\/p>\n“if the medical officer of health for the district certifies that the several tenements are so constructed and arranged as to secure effective ventilation of all habitable rooms in every tenement”<\/p>\nModern back to backs and single aspect flats, have, in some cases, mechanical ventilation which I have to presume without further evidence, satisfies building control that the dwellings are fit for human habitation.<\/p>\nI’m happy to hear from any architects who wish to contribute to this discussion. I don’t have the last word on this, I’m just looking at the law and drawing my own conclusions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There’s a discussion going on and a considerable increase in hits to my blog since somebody posted the link from:- https:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com and so I returned to thinking about whether they are illegal or not given that Ellesmere\u00a0is about to be built, and that Goldhawk Road Mk1 was nearly built.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housing-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30238,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14973\/revisions\/30238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/282gh_b2b.jpg\"){kind=link}