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A lucky find and a clever bit of upcycling and modification... Check your local architectural salvage yards!!

This graph goes a long way towards explaining why British houses look so cheap and are such low quality, even though they're expensive to buy. They are, in fact, built cheaply.

Great things are happening at traditional architecture summer schools all around the world A new generation of architects and urbanists is rising. The world is ready for it

Great example of how contemporary yet traditional, 'urban fabric' architecture can: - Harmoniously blend in a historical district - Tick all the boxes for beauty - Still have a contemporary 'feel' Great work in general!

This feels very much like a rebranded Permission in Principle/Brownfield Registers rather than a new idea

createstreets We had that. The architects told us it continued the lines and ‘rhythm’ of the neighbouring Grade II* terrace. It didn’t. They’d just put a grid over the top and bluffed it. This sort of deception undermines any remaining integrity in the planning system.

Yet another place you can get sausage rolls in town! Greggs getting in just before the new Local Plan requires a Health Impact Assessment of hot food takeaways. Oh wait… there’s no application to change its use. Is Greggs a shop or hot food takeaway?

HM Land Registry will be updating their fees. 📢 Starting 9th December 2024, fees for HM Land Registry's information services will see an increase, the first in over a decade. Some key changes include: 👉 Fees for individual registers or plans will rise from £3 to £7.

Flood Zone 3 living up to its name

The eternal desire of architects to make architecture a cold, industrial process. Feelings are just in the way.

It was great to be given a tour today of the Ice Works, and to see the wonderful effort that has been made to restore the former mill building into stunning apartments

Scarily these people have a say over our environment. And that environment directly affects your health.

The planning application for proposed new school has gone live 24/000020/REG3

#DateForTheDiary - join me for the annual Worcester Civic Society Society lecture on 16 Oct at 7pm at Guildhall Worcester. Historian James Stourton will talk about Saving Our Heritage. FREE admission - drinks from 6.30pm, cash only. Collection for my charities.

#DateForTheDiary - join Mayor of Worcester for the annual Worcester Civic Society Society lecture on 16 Oct at 7pm at the Guildhall. Historian James Stourton will talk about Saving Our #Heritage. FREE admission - drinks from 6.30pm, cash only. Collection for the Mayor's charities.

With simple designs such as this, the detail & texture matters a lot. The large (now near illegal) windows. The rubbed bricks above the 6 over 6 windows. The string courses in red brick. The English bond. The friendly shop front.

The High Street yesterday: clean, no clutter (for the first time in ages), and on this stretch, barely any tarmac cowpats (you can just see some broken paving in the bottom right hand corner outside Hays). This is what we expect. No big redevelopment just decent basic standards.

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