Categories
- Architecture/Design (99)
- Community Right to Build (40)
- Development/Land-Use (38)
- Norfolk DNA (33)
- Tayler & Green (12)
- Uncategorized (13)
Tags
- affordable housing
- Big Society
- Building Design
- cars
- Community Right to Build
- consensus/support
- Critical Regionalism
- David Green
- design/architecture
- design quality
- development
- FANN-XI
- farmstead
- Forest Village
- Herbert Tayler
- history
- house-builders
- housing delivery
- land-use
- local distinctiveness
- Localism Bill
- local services
- Loddon
- materials
- modernism
- Neighbourhood Plan
- Norfolk
- normal
- opinion/responses
- pan-tiles
- pastiche
- planning
- policy
- roofs
- rural archetypes
- settlement pattern
- simplicity
- sustainability
- Tayler and Green
- terrace
- thatch
- value
- vernacular
- village
- wide-fronted house
-
Recent Posts
Archives
- August 2013 (1)
- July 2013 (1)
- June 2013 (1)
- March 2013 (2)
- February 2013 (1)
- December 2012 (2)
- November 2012 (12)
- October 2012 (3)
- September 2012 (1)
- May 2012 (1)
- April 2012 (6)
- March 2012 (3)
- February 2012 (6)
- January 2012 (7)
- December 2011 (5)
- November 2011 (5)
- October 2011 (7)
- September 2011 (9)
- August 2011 (2)
- July 2011 (7)
- June 2011 (6)
- May 2011 (3)
- April 2011 (4)
- March 2011 (9)
- February 2011 (11)
- January 2011 (7)
- December 2010 (8)
- November 2010 (11)
- October 2010 (12)
- September 2010 (13)
Tag Archives: pastiche
Greetings from Legoland
This week, Housing Minister Grant Shapp’s wrote to the Design Council, which has taken over the charred remains of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), torched in the Coalition’s ‘bonfire of the quangos’. He urged them to … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design
Tagged design quality, design/architecture, local distinctiveness, pastiche
Comments Off on Greetings from Legoland
Contemporary ‘Farmsteads’ #2
Before I signed off at the end of the year I was talking about contemporary ‘farmsteads’ – one of my four rural archetypes. I had it in mind to talk about how a dense grouping of dwellings laid out around … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA
Tagged design quality, farmstead, Norfolk, pastiche, planning, roofs, rural archetypes, vernacular
Comments Off on Contemporary ‘Farmsteads’ #2
So What?
What point was I trying to make with those last two rather nerdy posts about Horsham St Faith and Frettenham? What relevance do they have to the Community Right to Build?
Posted in Architecture/Design
Tagged Community Right to Build, design/architecture, house-builders, pastiche, village
Comments Off on So What?
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
Comments Off on Villages on Steroids
Design Quality Outside the Planning System?
Given that the current planning system hasn’t generally managed to produce new housing of inspirational and enduring quality, it is perhaps odd that my biggest concern about Community Right to Build is to do with design. It’s true that planners … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Community Right to Build
Tagged Community Right to Build, competitions, design quality, design/architecture, Elmswell, Lawrenny, pastiche, planning
Comments Off on Design Quality Outside the Planning System?