Why Britain’s newbuilds are so ugly
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400m is earmarked to help build homes on brownfield sites and to redevelop empty high streets for housing.
By Richard Reed
A new housing estate is being built outside your town. What do you hope it looks like? Britain’s housing stock includes everything from stone cottages to the pair of new skyscrapers in Nine Elms, south London, connected to one another by a swimming pool “bridge” suspended 115ft in the air. Elsewhere we have neo-classical Georgian townhouses, arts and crafts-influenced s...
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