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Author Archives: Matt Wood
Sounds Sensible…
The Community Land Trust website reports on the announcement that the threshold of support for Community Right to Build projects will be lowered from 90% to 75%. They also note…
Posted in Community Right to Build
Tagged Community Right to Build, consensus/support, policy
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Real Rural Vernacular – Norfolk’s DNA
In the previous post I described a house-builders’ vernacular which despite some superficial stylistic references to rural architecture has led to housing estates that are nothing like real villages. I was recently asked to lead a two-day tour of Norwich … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA
Tagged design/architecture, Hus 22, Norfolk, Norwich, rural archetypes, Tayler and Green, vernacular
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Villages on Steroids
All Community Right to Build projects will take place in the context of an existing village, and its promoters will no doubt want to add to their village in a sympathetic and sensitive manner. So what might a contemporary ‘village … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design
Tagged density, design/architecture, detached, house-builders, pastiche, planning, semi, style, terrace
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Watch this space…
After an initial burst of activity things will now go quiet here for a bit. When I resume I will be re-focusing a bit on design – which is mostly supposed to be what Ruralise is about. What to look … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design
Tagged design/architecture, local distinctiveness, Norfolk
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CRTB: How Many Homes?
As I said in a previous post, the ‘sustainablility’ logic behind the planners’ preference for large-scale development, centred on a limited number of highly serviced, highly accessible centres, is lost on most ‘normal’ people. It seems only common sense to … Continue reading
Posted in Community Right to Build, Development/Land-Use
Tagged Community Right to Build, development, growth, housing delivery, Norfolk, settlement pattern, sustainability
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Architectural Press Showing Interest…
Weekly construction-industry newspaper Building Design covers last week’s announcement of the new lower threshold of support for a Community Right to Build (CRTB) project. The RIBA mentioned the Planning Officers’ Society consultation response in its Members’ Newsletter last week. Prior to … Continue reading
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Tagged Building Design, Community Right to Build, design/architecture, opinion/responses
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How to CRTB #2 – Creating Value
I said in a previous post it was ironic that the Coalition spending-cuts have hit a programme aimed at supporting community run pubs. It isn’t ironic, of course – in fact it’s ideologically consistent with the whole thrust of the … Continue reading
Posted in Community Right to Build, Development/Land-Use
Tagged affordable housing, Big Society, Community Right to Build, consensus/support, development, land-use, planning, value
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It’s in the countryside…but is it rural?
Rowan Moore in the Guardian is the latest to cover Living Architecture, a new holiday-home business that has commissioned five internationally acclaimed architects to design modern country houses. Their intention (a highly laudable one) is to enthuse people about modern … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design
Tagged design/architecture, Living Architecture, materials, modernism, vernacular
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Is it a shub? Is it a pop? No, it’s…
…well, it’s a pub with a village shop in it, so it’s probably a ‘pop’…like this one in Somerset, or this one in Tacolneston, not far from where I live in Norfolk. OK; the second one’s actually a beer shop…but … Continue reading
Posted in Development/Land-Use
Tagged land-use, Plunkett Foundation, pub, shop
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The Heart of a Village
The British Beer and Pub Association reports (here) that 900 pubs closed in the last year. The village pub, school and shop/Post office between them form, if you will, a Holy Trinity of ‘village life’*. Both the Telegraph and Daily … Continue reading
Posted in Community Right to Build, Development/Land-Use
Tagged Community Right to Build, land-use, local services, pub, shop, village centre
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