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Look! St Albans - Our Community Voice on Design working in the spirit of Neighbourhood Planning

St Albans Katılım Haziran 2014
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Look! St. Albans
Look! St. Albans@LookStAlbans·
We'rea community group that promotes #CommunityEngagement on significant developments in #StAlbansDistrict We take a #collaborative approach to leave a legacy we all can all be proud of Look! remains impartial but facilitates a design charrette process to incorporate all opinions
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Vanessa Gregory
Vanessa Gregory@VanessaStAlbans·
What a surprise. Humans are hard wired to appreciate beauty, from the first face we see when born to homes we draw at school. Well at least those who have the privilege of living in traditionally built homes.
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Babies, say the boffins, prefer baroque architecture to brutalism & classic facades to featureless contemporary ones. St Paul’s lifts the soul. Corbusier depresses it. In a University of Sussex study last year, babies looked for over 3 times as long at buildings ...

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Unless you are #StAlbans who in their still draft Local Plan leaves design codes to the developer of each site. Hardly any do. An enlightened developer recently had a planning application turned down as his design codes were classed as too 'prescriptive' by local authority.
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How can English councils respond to increased housing targets and the new National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)? Get in touch contact@createstreets.com #nppf #planning #housebuilding

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Apparently £600m is being spent on this giant lump. The best part of a billion pounds to make London uglier. What a depressing misallocation of treasure.
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The re-stitching and rebuilding of Dresden is one of the great stories of European civilisation of the last 20 years, staggeringly little known in Britain. All driven by popular preferences in the face of architectural resistance.
Samuel Hughes@SCP_Hughes

Dresden. Every building pictured dates from the last twenty years, the result of a 2002 municipal referendum in which the city decisively voted in favour of reconstructing its historic centre.

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Only 2% of British trust developers to improve existing places. 7% trust planners. If we're to fall back in love with future & improve productivity & beauty of our towns & cities, we need to re-learn how to create new buildings which public can instinctively accept, not reject...
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A pristine example of knowing the price of everything & the value of nothing Had the council cared a little more about place & sanctity (read @JonHaidt & @boys_nicholas) & a little less about avoiding all conceivable risk they might have behaved less wastefully.
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Vanessa Gregory@VanessaStAlbans·
How do YOU feel about the buildings where YOU live? Yes YOU! Although sometimes it feels hard to believe but your views should and do count. #Humanise youtu.be/kJg-fRS8zoQ?si…
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I know when a friend bothers to send me a photo of a beautiful manhole cover they came upon in Chiba city Japan today, that we both really appreciate delightful surprises in the public realm. Why do we in this country mostly put up with ****?
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Why do some places stall while others thrive? Because a vague guide delays. A good design code speeds up good development - by being crystal clear about what’s allowed and de-risking the right homes in the right places. createstreets.com/five-ingredien…
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Pope puts architect Antoni Gaudí on path to sainthood. The Vatican has put Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí on the path to sainthood in recognition of his "heroic virtues". #Beauty nourishes the soul, but let's not overlook what it does for us physically. bbc.com/news/articles/…
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Charles Campion@charliecampion·
“Showing off the power of co-design & co-production & what it can do!” - delighted to be at UCL Bartlett / The Glass-House Healthy City event this evening led by Sophia de Sousa & Lucy Natarajan and facilitated by Bartlett students on themes Community, Polity, Ecology & Practice
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20th Jan St Albans 1896 Plans get underway for the proposed County Museum on Hatfield Rd. In 2014 a community charrette arranged by @LookStAlbans produced a design concept using design codes for next chapter of the building’s life, new homes The New Museum today in Old Town Hall
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Nicholas Boys Smith
Nicholas Boys Smith@boys_nicholas·
Do the top. Not the bottom.
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Vanessa Gregory@VanessaStAlbans·
Don't you just love the Daily Mail? The not so subtle message is fight, CLASH, hate, & if you don't agree with us we'll set the dogs in you Very depressing The message from @LookStAlbans remains bring democracy forward by producing co created design codes dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
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The King suggested we all listen to each other. A fundamental ingredient to so many aspects of life. Not least in creating new communities. If more embraced genuine #communityengagement to co- create #designcodes to inform development, more new homes built with less opposition.
Sky News@SkyNews

Watch the King deliver his Christmas message. This year, King Charles thanks doctors and nurses who cared for him and his daughter-in-law the Princess of Wales through their cancer treatment. trib.al/EEZzvco

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Vanessa Gregory@VanessaStAlbans·
Some say they don't know what beauty is. 👇 Another is being your first snowdrop of the year. For many a home that is well proportioned, well built with natural light & feels part of the community. It's pure beauty Italy's largest medieval mosaics restored bbc.com/news/articles/…
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