In an effort to address the housing crisis, I mapped every railway station in England and used publicly-accessible data to show that 777 of them have development potential
Author: russellcurtis
In tearing up the council’s innovative design guide for development at its fringes, Jason Perry has prevented the benign construction of urgently needed housing in his borough
How to support new homes in your local area
Placing requirements on suburban boroughs to do more to help meet the capital’s housing needs could have made a huge difference.
The lack of oversight, ownership and liability that the inquiry has exposed is of little surprise to those of us immersed in the everyday realities of construction
To find an architect lamenting the erosion of the profession’s role within the construction process may elicit from many little more than crocodile tears or, to others, smack of a futile act of self-preservation when faced with challenging financial targets, shrinking capital budgets and the avoidance of risk. But while architects’ railing at the demotion […]
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After Grenfell
Passengers touching down at London City Airport are likely unaware that buried beneath the tarmac lie the brayed concrete remains of a 22-storey tower, the demolition of which signified a watershed moment in British housing. Erected hastily towards the end of the 1960s, Ronan Point concluded two decades of rapid housebuilding. At its peak, some […]