Pathfinder - Welsh Streets
I'm going to quote my wife for a description here. She's an architectural historian, a town planner, and a former empty homes officer at Shelter, so it's fair to say she knows what she's talking about:
"What sort of idiocy takes whole swathes of successful city streets, full of the sorts of homes that people across the country want to live in, forcibly moves the communities out and disperses them, looks to replace them with lower density, lower quality homes that are less successful at building and supporting communities, at great cost and with a net reduction of number of homes and quality of the built environment?
And then doesn't succeed in doing even that. Instead, vast sections of city dead and boarded up for years and years. Homes rotting unnecessarily while housing waiting lists get more and more stretched.
And yet someone, somewhere thought it was a good idea. And then other people agreed and decided to make it happen. These streets only received consent for demolition in summer 2013. I cannot begin to see even a single good argument for it, and cannot understand how anyone could persuade themselves that this is the sensible option.
Ooooh, it makes me mad."
Me too.
Pathfinder - Welsh Streets
I'm going to quote my wife for a description here. She's an architectural historian, a town planner, and a former empty homes officer at Shelter, so it's fair to say she knows what she's talking about:
"What sort of idiocy takes whole swathes of successful city streets, full of the sorts of homes that people across the country want to live in, forcibly moves the communities out and disperses them, looks to replace them with lower density, lower quality homes that are less successful at building and supporting communities, at great cost and with a net reduction of number of homes and quality of the built environment?
And then doesn't succeed in doing even that. Instead, vast sections of city dead and boarded up for years and years. Homes rotting unnecessarily while housing waiting lists get more and more stretched.
And yet someone, somewhere thought it was a good idea. And then other people agreed and decided to make it happen. These streets only received consent for demolition in summer 2013. I cannot begin to see even a single good argument for it, and cannot understand how anyone could persuade themselves that this is the sensible option.
Ooooh, it makes me mad."
Me too.