All Letters to the editor articles – Page 66
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Poor planning
The government’s target-driven attempt to force planning authorities to determine most applications within the statutory eight weeks has clearly failed. Hard-pressed officers have developed a range of tactics to delay applications for as long as possible.
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Taxing question
During your Robin Hood Gardens campaign, the concept of listing was given undue importance.
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Act in haste...
Experience tells me the government should not speed up school building (Debate October 24).
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OpinionWe did have a big idea for China
Contrary to your front page report (October 24) that Casson Mann “failed to come up with a big idea”, together with Heatherwick’s, Casson Mann did have a big idea for the content of the pavilion. Together we pitched with it, won the pitch with it, and the client approved it.
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Empty prospects
With a downturn on new-builds, is it not time to start working on the empty properties around the UK? It would certainly provide employment for many of our smaller partnerships.
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OpinionGetting the hump
Following the selection of the winner of the Weston-super-Mare pier competition by the fashionably democratic X Factor, Strictly ad nauseum process (News October 24), I note the “plans” have to be approved by six assorted “authorities”. Only six?
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Late intervention
The Kensington & Chelsea Exhibition Road photo montage (Letters October 24) indicates wall-to-wall paving of an area equal to Parliament Square.
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Energy shortage
Having just returned from Beijing, I feel compelled to communicate the sheer sense of energy in the Chinese capital.
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OpinionExhibition Road will share space
Peter Somers (Letters October 17) thinks Kensington & Chelsea Council intends to “squander” £30 million to “pedestrianise” Exhibition Road — but there is no plan to pedestrianise Exhibition Road.
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Homes truths
Perhaps congratulations regarding the Stirling Prize winner (News October 17) should be offered first to the developer, Countryside Residential, for its foresight in appointing Feilden Clegg Bradley to prepare a scheme for the Brooklands Avenue site in Cambridge?
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Insider view
I wonder what support there would be for an Arb candidate who would be pragmatic, with no political axe to grind — apart from to make sure Arb is accountable, prudent and supports the profession?
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War memories
Simon Henley described his practice’s design of Bagley Airfield clubhouse (First Look October 17) as “taking inspiration from the English country house”.
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OpinionWindow shopping
There are many admirable aspects of the refurbishment works at Trellick Tower (Solutions October 10), but the window replacement programme is not among them.
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Step on it
Is it really acceptable to design a viewing platform (Solutions October 17) reached by stair with no lift access?
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Back to honesty
Now we all know that we’ve been living a dream as opposed to living the dream since the turn of the century, maybe it’s an opportune time for architecture to exorcise its own ghosts of the recent past?
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Standard bearer
I qualified in 1956 and ever since I can remember, architects have been in despair over the standards of design of our housing stock.
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Make it clear
I was disturbed to read about another supposed eco-house (News October 3) which seems to disregard environmental considerations with a totally clear four-storey glazed facade.