{"id":17,"date":"2010-02-19T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=17"},"modified":"2010-02-19T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T11:03:00","slug":"kickstart-funds-poor-quality-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Kickstart funds poor quality homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">From Building Design magazine<\/h4>\n<p>Cabe was employed by fellow quango the Homes &amp; Communities Agency to assess the \u00a3360 million first round of Kickstart last summer and analysed every short listed housing scheme using the industry\u2019s Building for Life [BfL] standard.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&lt;snip&gt;<\/div>\n<p>But for the larger \u00a3550 million second round \u2014 which is ongoing \u2014 Cabe\u2019s role has been slashed, with it only examining private sector projects and not the affordable housing schemes.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&lt;snip&gt;<\/div>\n<p>The Pippins is an estate of 52 private and affordable homes on a former power station in Rugeley, Staffordshire, which received \u00a3507,000 from Kickstart round one.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&lt;snip&gt;<\/div>\n<p>Planning officer Ros Robb then revealed that the final scheme was never scrutinised by councillors but was approved under delegated powers after members had agreed to a previous, less intensive, development.<\/p>\n<p>Robb said: \u201cIt was much nicer before. But they have increased the density and watered down the design to get a scheme they felt they could market.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>Read Jonathan Glancey&#8217;s take on the situation here<\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;More than ever we need a new generation of local authority architects departments&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt was much nicer before. But they have increased the density and watered down the design to get a scheme they felt they could market.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","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\/17","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=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}