All Letters to the editor articles – Page 37
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Opinion
Forever Young
Just a reminder that it was “professional hack” Toby Young who joined the former Tory architecture minister Ed “five days in the job” Vaizey and education secretary Michael “can’t stop grinning” Gove in attacking the architectural profession for “creaming off” profits from Building Schools for the Future on the Newsnight ...
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Hitting home
Royal Star & Garter Homes’ withdrawal from Gladedale and Network Rail’s proposed mixed development scheme at Hampton Court Station (News July 16) comes as little surprise to those of us in the local community who, since early 2004, have questioned the wisdom of the running down and eventual closure of ...
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OpinionJanet & Michael
Architects should ask themselves why the government is trying to press its free schools policy through with indecent haste
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Be professional
Jonathan Glancey is heading in the right direction when he argues that we should redesign the planners, though I would go the next step and redesign the planning system
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Tory brutality
BSF can be criticised for many things, and wholesale change is necessary, but the brutal way in which the school programme was axed, with no consultation or evaluation of the value of projects other than what was contractually obliged, is indicative of the relish and haste at which this government ...
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Opinion
Small comfort
As a partner in a small architectural practice with over 15 years of experience working with schools and local authorities, we saw the BSF swallow up our workload
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Good riddance
The axing of BSF will be hard on some architects but will benefit just about everyone else
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OpinionGove has made the right move
Though understandably frustrating for the people directly concerned, education secretary Michael Gove has done the right thing in axing the 700 or so Building Schools for the Future projects
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Peer pressure
Norman Foster’s tax status could be argued to be everyone’s business, as, up until the deadline for resignation, he was a member of the House of Lords
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Opinion
Respect yourself
Am I the only person who believes that nobody should be asked to work for nothing?
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Opinion
Don't Cabe in
Alan Howarth’s quote (“To neglect [design review] would be a false economy.” News July 2) seems a little self-righteous
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Opinion
Pay and display
In last week’s article on the RIBA’s measures to tackle low pay, the reference to students being paid “at least the minimum wage after more than six months” was incorrectly interpreted
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Opinion
Local expertise
Design input from Cabe is similar in an important way to that provided by Prince Charles – it is undemocratic
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An outside eye
An impartial design review by Cabe is a valuable check for design quality in urban areas – we need someone to add quality to our bargain basement architecture
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OpinionLet’s redesign planning
Our planning system may be divisive, as your leader observed last week, but it is also intended to be democratic. It fails when this requirement is not fulfilled
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Doing the sums
With the scrapping of the Building Schools for the Future programme, the affected education authorities need to realistically review their requirements – whether refurb or new build – and the government needs to review how these requirements are met – financed either through its own funding or private funding.Design teams ...