All Letters to the editor articles – Page 64
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OpinionDesign advice is key to planning
Jonathan Glancey’s suggestion (November 28) about setting up design training oriented towards planning would be beneficial in the long term
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Design for all
As an aged architect-planner, I was heartened to hear your call for the borough architect to be brought back.
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Back to panels
You suggest that “a huge cheer greeted the latest review of the planning system” (Leader November 28). I am not sure who from!
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No call for change
Parliament Square (Solutions December 5) is already a very fine pedestrian space, skilful in its design, masterplan and detailed elements
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Flexible friend
In my search for architectural work I followed the advice of David Gloster and others (Analysis October 24)
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OpinionLocal heroes
May I add my voice to that of Ealing Council’s Gavin Leonard (Letters December 5) in extolling the virtues of the local authority in-house architecture department
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No question
Your interview with Roger Hawkins does not seem to answer the fundamental question as to why London’s squares need pedestrianising at all.
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Walled off
Herzog & de Meuron’s Tenerife Arts Space (bdonline November 5) is a site plan/masterplan for a vast area turned into an axonometric.
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OpinionBack to the Spa
I would like to correct some points in your report on the Spa Green estate (News November 14).
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OpinionWe’re still here in the boroughs
I had to permit myself a wry smile when reading last week’s leader on the borough architect.
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Design in context
Your limited sample of the views of the architects involved in early Building Schools for the Future projects (News November 28) did not really throw up any surprises for Partnerships for Schools — we have heard the comments before and are changing as the programme gathers pace.
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Dusting down
Mark Cotton (Letters November 28) need not be so pessimistic about the lack of a design opportunity with retrofitting projects.
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It’s a flyer
Richard Beastall hit the nail on the head in his succinct argument for a new “hub” airport in the Thames Estuary (Debate November 21).
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Don’t stop at CDM
I couldn’t agree more with Paul Morrell that we should dump the CDM regs (Opinion November 21). But I would go much further and dump the Health & Safety Executive as well.
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Round in circles
So local authorities are to have the power to turn down planning applications on the basis of poor design. In other words, planning officers and lay committees will decide what good design is.
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Ethical conflict
I suggest that the architects of last week’s featured Museum of Conflict in Libya contact your ethical agony aunt, Irena Bauman.