The refurbed milk float lift to access Park Hill's 'streets', ideal for the HDAs judges to do their 'how many of us can you get in your lift?' test. Spot where they took the floor out and how they've left timbers urbansplash Homes England @placesforpeople @MikhailRiches

200 years from now, people are going to be writing PhDs about the social and economic forces that led to a railway being built that looked like this.

“Hey bird, I can do that too” 😅 🎥 IG: nautilus_liveaboards

Genia, a lad from Ukraine that Keepmoat treated to see his team beat Scotland in the World Cup qualifiers, has a new line - making vodka. And every bottle his employer sells generates £1 for first-aid kits for Ukraine civilians. Please buy some dimasvodka.com/collections

If anywhere doesn't need help, it's Cambridge. In the past decade a city of 140,000 people has seen more good new communities than Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield and Manchester combined. Oxford (160,000 pop.) is where help is needed as it's developed a fraction in same time span

Greened up parking courts, robust daylit cores, solar shading to modest point blocks, the HDAs' 75th hunt for replicable design moves offers the chance to see what the judges in London (28.09)] coupled to tour of Stirling Prize nominee Central Somers Town lnkd.in/eNGe6akT

"Reclaim the streets" (in the sky). Deck access gets a Muji make-over at Park Hill phase 2. Guided tour part of the refurbishment of Europe's largest listed building part of 75th Awards event on Wed 4 Oct showcasing ideas worth a proper look lnkd.in/e_ui7bg3

2nd leg of 75th Housing Design Awards in Park Hill, Sheffield tonight. Great updates on houses in Nottingham and nr Grimsby. And North is so adept at recycling its past, whether 60s estates or C19th factories and churches. Just check out the shortlist. hdawards.org

What might design codes add to development costs? This page from Amersham's (under consultation) proposes remote parking to avoid cars impacting street scene. But multistoreys cost £10,000+ per home. Then there's carbon in concrete frames. How can this help Net Zero new homes?

And the form about ordering tables for the black tie event or offering sponsorship opportunities will be more detailed again... These commercial awards are tiresome. You never even know why the scheme wins on the night because it's 1 pic and a few words.

Last week FT reported affordability now worst since 1876. Today it reports Treasury crisis meeting on councils who won't be able to carry the cost of resulting homelessness. Yet, as FT asks, why do these red lights on dashboard get no attention when compared with inflation. Why?

The Economist demolishes the British love of the Green Belt this week: 38% of the country cannot be built on, just 5% would house 5m new homes, max 9% of country already built on but public think it’s half. RCKa architects Russell Curtis cited for his work

You could tell Redrow faced changes when you see (left) their new types Ebbsfleet Garden City despite their obsession with the Heritage range (right). I guess that's aping 1930s and integral garage types done. @Barrattplc been the better developer (since Mark Clare shook it up).

Worth remembering that RIBA attacked Haussmann's Paris 'arrangements' where "utterly dissociated and discordant people live under one roof" -- in 1876 that was how they explained the new fangled apartment buildings with shared cores emerging...

2024 deadline for the Housing Design Awards extended from 5 March to end of the day on Tuesday 12 March. Still a fortnight to upload images and data of your latest scheme with recent planning or PC and join the most potent design resource on the internet hdawards.org

2pm @futurebuildnow Amy Burbidge, design lead @homesengland will join Kevin McGeough headofplace Ebbsfleet Garden City on Active House intro. Hear what largest public clients in country (50,000+ homes pa) say standards should not lose sight of #daylight #health #carbon #comfort #space

Modern Methods of Construction + Primeval Thinking on Design. Why design narrow-fronted deep-plan houses with resulting gloomy interior plans (>90% of rooms will be single aspect), and wreck opportunity for PV arrays with faux-Georgian outriders? Style 1 Health & Climate 0

Our best recent planning minister lets the party who sidelined him in its lurch to populism have it.

Appleby Blue Almshouse, Winner of Winners at 76th Housing Design Awards (76th year) now viewable hdawards.org/videos/ alongside £1m video library and 14 case studies of 2024 winners complete with case studies and links to Design & Access Statements hdawards.org/schemes/?_sft_…