sean rafferty
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@SW_Help are tickets to Winchester from Waterloo being accepted on alternate routes ( I.e GWR from Paddington) considering the disruption at Waterloo ? Thanks
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@SustainableTall A shame it was never built, the built revised scheme by another architect, was significantly less interesting
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This is the inevitable consequence of relying solely on private developers. They stop buuilding when profits are under threat.
Councils should be allowed to build affordable homes.
Ministers confirm plans to reduce affordable housing quotas in London
theguardian.com/society/2025/o…
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"I cannot see how cutting affordable housing targets is a step forward towards solving the housing crisis, and the response appears to misunderstand both the scale and cause of the current problems."
Peter Apps@PeteApps
I've tried to argue why I think the cut to affordable housing targets in London is a really terrible idea in a considered, rather than shouty, way here. A clumsy patching up of a broken status quo: open.substack.com/pub/peteapps/p…
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@PhinHarper Guaranteed space standards will be next for the chopping block. The past 24 hours have been very depressing and feels like an almost 15 year step backwards
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@RoryOlcayto @PastGlasgow By Elder and Cannon I believe, one of my first employers!
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@PastGlasgow Great stuff! Love that newish tenement block on montage street, top right towards the end…architect is elder and cannon I think
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Flying across the tenements of the West End, off Great Western Rd.
📍 Carrington St
📍 Rupert St
📍 Dunearn St
📍 Woodlands Dr
📍 Barrington Dr
📍 Montague St
#Glasgow #aerialphotography #dji
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@SW_Help Totton and Southampton, we had a dinner reservation and didn’t have time to to wait on a bus journey
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@SustainableTall Hackney continues to be one of the most sophisticated, quality led boroughs on London in regards to housing delivery
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90 Passivhaus homes planned for London. 65% for social rent, while the other 35% will be shared ownership.
By Sergison Bates
architectsjournal.co.uk/news/sergison-…

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@createstreets This has become the reform party of architectural commentary
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@MunicipalDreams The building on the left is just a rectangle dull no craft…
Since the war ‘architects’ (dull £ money loving hacks?) have been the most disgraceful profession.
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I came across Fernand Pouillon's work in Marseille. I didn't realise he'd led such an, er, interesting life:
theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

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@createstreets How are you quantifying that’s increasingly impossible ? Just completed several social housing schemes with elegant railings. Please stop masking your ideological and aesthetic leanings as pseudo science, it weakens the conversation about making good homes and neighbourhoods
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Look at the design quality that destigmatises social housing
The architect is Jean-Christophe Quinton
dezeen.com/2022/11/01/cur…


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@SW_Help Thanks, I rang your colleagues and the issue has been resolved. Thanks
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Hi @SW_Help trying to change a booking , have tried both the app and logging in online, getting error codes, is your system down ?
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