quaint innit

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

just like freshly boiled eggs and soldiers all in a row

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2015/apr/02/tories-new-housing-design-guide-backs-tiny-unliveable-homes

another Spiral between the pols the heir and the Builders!

don't however try to swing a cat inside these lovely little dwellings ....

housing design is a true scandal ....

[MrGongGong]

Poundbury is used as an example of best practice design.

(let's hope he dies before his mum :peace dove:)

[Serial_Apologist]

Were a symphony to be composed today in the ca. 1840 idiom of those Poundbury terraced houses in Calum's link, it would sound like Schumann's first, but feel a lot less roomy.

I was all for the approach advocated by Betjeman to conserving good historical architecture rather than replacing it with monstrous architectural signifiers of the power of global capitalism to dwarf human scale; but please: design for and of its time, not some nostalgic hark-back to an idyllic age that never existed (except for the likes of Scruton and his fellow fore...lock tuggers!)