| CARVIEW |
Single Aspect Blog
It's a completely unsustainable position to have the right to buy at all – Michael Edwards UCL
Cressingham Gardens – a village within a city
May 5th, 2014
 |
 |
 |
The spire of Holy Trinity Church seen from Cressingham Gardens. Split level houses on Hardel Walk. Wild flowers growing adjacent to Brockwell Park on the site of The Big Dig, a London wide project for enthusiastic urban gardeners.
City of Towers – Christopher Booker
May 4th, 2020
This film has reappeared in time for the 40th anniversary of its second showing on the BBC on 10th May 1980
Read the rest of this entry »
Election result explained from @Sheff_socialist
December 25th, 2019
The only sensible thing I’ve seen written about the election result since the day it happened.
Taken from @Sheff_socialist with link at the end:-
A long thread about my own personal experiences during this election dealing with my Labour voting family deciding to out themselves as casual racists by voting Tory / Brexit Party in traditional Labour “Red Wall” heartlands
I come from a genuine working class family .
Grandparents were miners and domestic cleaning staff
Dad was butcher , mum was a cleaner and when she remarried after their divorce she married a miner .
I grew up in a two up two down terrace house that my parents rented from the local Co-op society and then moved into a council house in Kendray (Barnsley) when my mum remarried
Cressingham Gardens – good news
July 11th, 2019
Single aspect flats
May 28th, 2019
I used to have a page here https://www.singleaspect.org.uk/?p=8
At some point during the several blog failures and restarts it was changed without my noticing
to here https://www.singleaspect.org.uk/?p=21425
So if you are looking for my page on single aspect flat from
February 9th, 2010
it’s here -> https://www.singleaspect.org.uk/?p=21425
Sorry for the confusion.
This archived blog
May 19th, 2019
We are moving house this year, even further from London, which will mean fewer if any trips to the capital. So the blog is over but remains useful (in my eyes) for its take on housing standards and as an easily accessible table of Parker Morris standards.
Kate Macintosh talks to Mary Duggan at 7pm – live streamed
November 28th, 2018
Right to buy – Richard Blyth
October 31st, 2018
Sutton Estate dual aspect
October 26th, 2018
BBC News discovers dual aspect flats shocker
July 27th, 2018
David Shukman BBC One news 10pm July 26th 2018
“This new assisted living centre in East London is designed to protect elderly people from the heat. I went to see one of the flats inside, they’re designed to be cool. Jill and Morris Matthews explained that they have windows on both sides of the building so a breeze can flow through”.
Perhaps the BBC can be persuaded to take an interest in Woods House Pimlico for the benefit of its residents.
Single aspect flats
“no better than back to back terraces” One of my bugbears as a layman taking an interest in housing is the number of modern conversions . . . read onRight to buy
Borrowing to build council housing would be a Keynsian move generating employment and housing people, acting as the engine of badly needed economic growth . . . read onStudent Reading List
I have been approached by a number of University students asking for information about housing design, housing estates, and related matters . . . read onSustaining Tower Blocks
. . . Investigate the possibility of splitting flats vertically to create scissor arrangements that extend the available solar aspects for each dwelling. . . . best viewed in ChromeBlogs I follow
A Take on Thamesmead
Architects Social Housing
Cambridge Design Studio
Design for homes
Dirty Modern Scoundrel
Emilia J Weber
Emma Dent Coad
Housing Space Standards
Jones the Planner
JR James Archive
Just Space
Joe Halewood
Keep our Council Homes
Kidbrooke Kite
Known Pleasures
London Column
Modern Architecture
Modernist Estates
Municipal Dreams
New Towns
Post-War Buildings
Sarah Glynn
Syte Architects
The Design of Homes
Tom Cordell
Tower Block Metal
Twentieth Century Society
Urban Trawl
Writing Cities
You, you idiotFor Sale
Paul Finch – CABE
The National House-Building Council thinks that if people are prepared to pay for rubbish it must be okay, which is rather the same argument that employers of child labour deploy . . . read onBack to backs
‘I would be against reintroducing back-to-backs leading to a monoculture,’ he warns. ‘The way forward is flexible housing regulations.’ . . . read onThe Case for Space
A lack of space has been shown to affect the basic lifestyle needs that many people take for granted, such as having enough space to store possessions or even to entertain friends. read on . . .Room to swing a cat?
“an exceptionally valuable piece of work which sheds much needed light on what has actually been provided by housebuilders over the last few years” . . . read on
Open Plan living
"Our boudoir on the open plan has been a huge success, Now everywhere's so open there's nowhere safe to dress" - Design for Living - Flanders & SwannDeborah Orr
The Dispossessed
. . . Just 10 tenants remain in the 130 flats, of which Bristol council owns 70 and Knightstone Housing Association owns 60 . . . . . . read onHousing build quality
. . . It is shocking to think that despite the universal condem- nation of the majority of social housing output in the 60s and 70s, professionals are still pushing for quantity over quality . . . read on
Micro flats Oldham
Work has begun to build 142 self-contained “micro” apartments — some as small as 18 square metres — in Oldham town centre . . . read on
Tiny flats
There is a new set of flats . . . daubed in tiny lettering below one of the artist impressions “(Flat Shown is actual size)” . . . read on
High rise retrofit
The deep plan organizes small single aspect units with larger numbers of internal rooms. This subsequently leads to a lack of daylight and cross ventilation for the majority of the flats. read articleEstates
Carpenters Estate - edit
Save Carpenters
Cook's Camden
Ferrier - the dispossessed(1)
Ferrier - the dispossessed(2)
Ferrier critique by CABE
Ferrier security of tenure
Grahame Park Estate Hendon
Green Man Lane Ealing
Green Man Lane Ealing (pp)
Kidbrooke Kite - Ferrier
Robin Hood Gardens
South Acton
Woodberry Down - ASH
Woodberry Down - Koos Couvée
Woodberry Down – Masterplan
Woodberry Down – Architects
Wornington GreenCouncil Housing
Hall of Fame
Hall of Shame
Housing
Ian Nairn
Reading list
- A Social History of Housing 1815-1985 by John Burnett
- Architects Handbook, The
- Architectural Review 1951-59
- British Buildings 1960-1964 by Douglas Stephen, Kenneth Frampton,
- Building the Post-War World by Nicholas Bullock
- Creating defensible space – Oscar Newman
- Design Disadvantagement – Alice Coleman
- Development of Housing in Britain 1870 – 2008, The
- Estates by Lynsey Hanley
- Five Giants, The – Timmins
- Goodbye London by Christopher Booker and Candida Lycett Green
- High density living – Alex Ely
- Home Front, The – Patrick Nuttgens
- Homes for today and tomorrow – 1961
- Housing Manual 1949 by the Ministry of Health
- Housing Policy and Practice by Peter Malpass & Alan Murie
- Hovels to High Rise by Anne Power
- Modern Terrace Housing – Arthur Trystan Edwards
- Outrage Revisited – Nairn
- Psychology of Housing, The – Alice Coleman
- Public Authority Housing – A. W. Cleeve-Barr
- RIBA Book of British Housing
- Right to Buy, The – Colin Jones and Alan Murie
- Shelter is not enough by Graham Towers
- UK Housing Wiki
- Utopia on Trial – Alice Coleman
- Village in the City, The – Nicholas Taylor
- Where the other half lives – Sarah Glynn
The Welfare State
Morse Magic – Author
. . . and for six months successfully communicated with coast stations around the world using automated morse . . . read onArchive
Categories
Calendar
January 2026 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 -