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      • Right now cities are devalued. But never waste a crisis, this is a time to secure their future liveability

        Oct 2020
        Affordable Housing, Architecture, Britain, City, Developers, Economy, Housebuilders, Housing, Masterplanning, Retail, Urban Design
        On Covid and the future of cities When I moved to London in 1979 the population was 6.75 million. England’s capital city had experienced a decline from 8.9 million over 4 decades (see graph here). A heady cocktail of air pollution (there was even a song called A Foggy Day (In London Town), by Gershwin […]
      • Boris Johnson must resist the urge to build, build, build back the same

        Jul 2020
        Developers, Development, Government, Housebuilders, Housing, Masterplanning, Politics, Urban Design
        A response to Boris Johnson’s “Build Build Build” mantra My (increasingly bushy) eyebrows raised somewhat last week when Boris Johnson stood in front of his podium with his latest three worder “build, build, build” and his promise to cut red tape around infrastructure – and raised even further when the chancellor promised to cut stamp […]
      • Wayne talks housing on Radio 5

        Jul 2019
        Affordable Housing, Architecture, Britain, Developers, Development, Housebuilders, Housing, Masterplanning, Purpose, Regeneration, Undesirable Housing, Urban Design
        Did you know that twice as much land in the UK is given to golf courses as to housing? Wayne went on Wake Up To Money on BBC Radio 5 Live in July 2019 to talk about the state of housing in Britain, and what we can do to improve communities in the future. You […]
      • Smaller homes make developers rich – but they are shrinking our lives

        Aug 2018
        Developers, Development, Housebuilders, Housing, Masterplanning, Urban Design
        The UK builds some of the smallest homes in Europe and this greed must be stopped in its tracks. The average house has lost 20% of its space since the 1970s as austerity warps planning processes and greed rules the market. On any given week, if you can bear to look, you’ll see dispiriting news […]
      • This Is The Sound Of The Suburbs

        Aug 2017
        Britain, City, Government, Green Space, Masterplanning, Society, Urban Design
        Wayne was made a Mayor of London Design Advocate, and has been an advocate for celebrating the city’s suburbs.  I had been thinking about what Good Growth in London means to me and it came to me during this recent sweltering spell of weather in London when I was struggling to sleep, getting up at […]
      • The Stranglehold On The UK House Building Industry

        Jan 2017
        Affordable Housing, Britain, Developers, Development, Housebuilders, Housing, Masterplanning, Purpose, Undesirable Housing, Urban Design
        We have always called for the housing industry to not be dominated by the large / mega-scaled housebuilders like Taylor Wimpey, Barratts and Persimmon.  The housing crash of 2008 devastated the small and medium sized housebuilding sector resulting in today just 26% of new homes being built by this part of the housebuilding industry as […]
      • Phase 1 of Dreamland Margate Finally Opens in June 2015

        Jun 2015
        British Culture, Coastal Regeneration, Design, Masterplanning, Placemaking, Regeneration
        But so much more yet to come… After 4 years of working on the Dreamland Margate project, after so many false starts and times when we thought that some of the enormous obstacles that presented themselves could in fact be insurmountable, the first phase of this amazing community instigated project is open. The June 2015 […]