Great to have Nathan Lee, Regional Head of Heritage Lottery Fund NW visiting our hetitage regeneration area of Church Kirk today.
Category: Planning
Local Plan Hearing
Over the last two days there has been the statutory hearing into the Hyndburn Borough Development Management DPD, a key part of the Hyndburn Local Plan. Hearings are one of the rituals of town planning and part of the slow process of drawing up the statutory development plan. Continue reading “Local Plan Hearing”
Hampstead Garden Suburb
This summer I have been visiting Hampstead Garden Suburb, in north London on a series of day trips. Hampstead was a pioneering garden suburb designed by Raymond Unwin, Barry Parker and Edwin Lutyens with many other Arts & Crafts Movement architects contributing buildings. Mervyn Miller’s book on the suburb has been indispensable!
I love this suburb and enjoy deciphering the nuances of design that Parker and Unwin pioneered and liked to use. Unlike their other estates, Hampstead’s buildings were designed by a wide range of Arts & Crafts architects, so there is a lot for the architectural historian as well as the town planner to see.
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