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Obligated to share Jason Boyle FRSA FRIBA’s post below. It is a sad indictment on our sector that we can produce such awful buildings. Let’s up the game and aim for the best designs and most sustainable solutions for our homes. 🏡 #sustainablilityleadership SDG 11 & 13
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Why is British housing generally so SH*T?” We are talking mainly volume housing here which is often not designed by architects or chartered technologists. This Architect in the UK wishes to remain anonymous as she has clients who are housebuilders. The intention is to talk with, planners and housebuilders and hopefully, the end users to hear from as many perspectives as possible. If you want to give your opinion, either as yourself or anonymously please contact me at https://lnkd.in/eSA_y-7y Simon Ricketts Paul Iddon Andy Shaw Paul Waldeck Rakesh Mistry ARB RIBA Andrew Jackson Neil Pinder Sadiyah Tijani Joel Firth Fraser H. Rion Willard, ARB Lee Smith FCIAT
Paul Redshaw
7mo
It’s crap because they are designed to a model that looks at maximising space against cost! The same design model is then rubber stamped across fields (usually green ones because it’s cheaper than brownfield sites) across the country in order for companies to have an understanding of there profit margins and how much they can pay themselves this year!
Peter Egan
7mo
We definitely have a culture of cram them in and make the sales pictures look good. I am finding many estates now that are ticking the planning boxes but now really creating community focused and low impact homes. Helping designers, qualified or not understand how simple design changes can reduce costs and create great places to live is something we need to get better at.
Matthew Greavey
7mo
Because in most cases the accommodation is too small and built on a very tight budget. 99% of the time housing design is driven by construction cost alone and packing as many dwellings on a site as is reasonably possible. So you get painfully simple brick boxes and estates of characterless developments.
Damian Keeley
6mo
It seems there’s no deterrent not to build as shoddily as possible if you are meeting minimum standards. There is really no Quality Control body on buildings sadly.
Ludwig Steyl
7mo
It would be funny if it wasn’t so sad. Having returned to the UK just over two years ago from South Africa, I was newly appalled by the housing standards in the UK.
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7moSome developers just don’t know what quality is, and some don’t care, but not all of them, housing can be better than ever on all fronts ,but when there’s a shortage of all homes in all areas, poorly designed and built homes will continue to slip through the net. My issue is with the planner’s allowing these homes to be built without adequate intervention. And then you have the housing that is simply ugly. No excuses for that, we have thousands of great architects and designers who know how to design and build, so why are ugly homes being built?