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OpinionShould local authorities be given powers to scrap RDAs?
All this top-down stuff clearly hasn’t worked, says Tory housing spokesman Grant Shapps; while the TCPA’s Gideon Amos argues abolishing them would jeopardise future housing developments
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OpinionDon’t put profit ahead of people
The main problem with Robin Hood Gardens is a local authority which has no sense of how to cherish buildings that house a settled and close-knit community. The vast majority of residents in Robin Hood Gardens do not wish to leave their flats.
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The small stuff
My point in Debate (February 13) was that there is a lack of attention paid not to the beautiful gardens, parks and major public spaces of London, but to all the less signature, more ubiquitous public spaces that are, in fact, left over and in-between pieces of urban landscape.
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Anti-Arcadia
Sarah Gaventa (Debate February 13) says: “The best public spaces are always those where the community is involved.”
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Victoria vitriol
I must comment on your news story: “KPF given go-ahead for Victoria scheme” (News February 13).
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Barking parking
In answer to your questions about the car parking at Barking Riverside (Leader February 13), we are masterplanning phase one (1,500 homes).
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Little chance
I have to disagree with your article “Small firms will design 2012 legacy projects” (February 13).
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Fixing our city
Much of what Owen Hatherley (Urban Trawl February 6) says about Southampton is misleading and misinformed.
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Board matters
The so-called Arb Reform Group would appear to be determined to try to perpetuate the corrosive wrangling of the last 12-plus years, as evidenced by its near full-page advertisement in BD.
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Kill this cash cow
Sorry to bang on about PFI again, but I was left open-mouthed by the insouciance of Partnership for Schools boss Tim Byles saying that six banks have re-entered PFI lending (News February 13).
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OpinionSchools out: confidence turns to doubt at BSEC
Architects who attended the BSEC exhibition last week in Manchester were encouraged by the Department for School’s sparky head of capital projects Jane Briginshaw, who told the audience that she hoped the new wave of primary schools can produce designs as striking as AHMM’s Great Notley and BDP’s Hampden Gurney.
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OpinionAll those against, say neigh
Knock, knock. Who’s there? Maybe it’s a big horse. Maybe it’s a big horse, who? Maybe it’s a big horse I’m a Londoner that I love London so…”
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OpinionAfter Foster's, no one is safe
If a practice that prided itself on the global spread of its projects has to slash its workforce, can anyone be immune to the recession?
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OpinionSea change for Southampton
Southampton is a sad city, as described by Owen Hatherley (Urban Trawl February 6), and I would like to see a similar article on Liverpool.
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OpinionWhen legacy is dead on arrival
The lack of civic-mindedness during the decades of “greed is good” has delivered only zombie public spaces, devoid of any life
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OpinionMud lark
Jonathan Glancey might like to know that construction using mud and earth (“Building with mud, glorious mud”, February 6) is alive and well in north-east Yorkshire. I am currently restoring buildings of rubble stone bound with mud. These date from the late 17th century, so have stood the test of ...
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OpinionWhere there’s muck, there’s indignation
The response to Peter Jones’s opinions shows how we’re failing to deal with rubbish
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OpinionAre the British any good at designing public space?
They are under-advocated, under-funded and under-appreciated, argues Martha Schwartz; but Sarah Gaventas thinks this view is out of date and out of touch
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Test of time
Our scheme in Southampton’s French Quarter, mentioned in your feature last week, offers truly mixed uses, mixed tenure and tenure-blind accommodation. It also supports commercial office and retail, sheltered and affordable rented accommodation, shared ownership and outright sale homes — the sale units have all sold faster than other similar ...
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100% effort
It is pointless for the RIBA’s Jane Duncan to exhort architects not to work for reduced fees (Debate February 6). As in the last recession 15 years ago, the market will decide what fees we shall be able to charge. Indeed, I understand that Tesco has already cut the fees ...