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AD Crawford is right about RHG’s functional shortcomings, but wrong (I think) in suggesting that it could be refurbished. According to a study in 2007 by the architects Horden Cherry Lee it would cost £70,000 per unit merely to bring up to the government’s Decent Homes Standard, and ‘way beyond £100,000’ per unit to be renovated ‘into something where architects would want to live’ – and that was in 2007 prices. This pair of architectural failures should be demolished, but replaced by something better than the mediocre-looking images we saw in your pages last week. Is this really beyond the wit of architects? - Maritz Vandenberg.

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